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Efficient and Adaptive Estimation of Local Triadic Coefficients
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Theoretical Computer Science, TCS.ORCID iD: 0009-0007-5894-0774
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Theoretical Computer Science, TCS.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5211-112X
2025 (English)In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, E-ISSN 2150-8097, Vol. 18, no 8, p. 2561-2574Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Characterizing graph properties is fundamental to the analysis and to our understanding of real-world networked systems. The local clustering coefficient, and the more-recent, local closure coefficient, capture powerful properties that are essential in a large number of applications, ranging from graph embeddings to graph partitioning. Such coefficients capture the local density of the neighborhood of each node, considering incident triangle structures and paths of size 2. For this reason, we refer to these coefficients collectively as local triadic coefficients. In this work, we consider the novel and fundamental problem of efficiently computing the average of local triadic coefficients, over a given partition of the nodes of the input graph into a set of disjoint buckets. The average local triadic coefficients of the nodes in each bucket provide a better insight into the interplay of graph structure and the properties of the nodes associated to each bucket. Unfortunately, exact computation, which requires listing all triangles in a graph, is infeasible for large networks. Hence, we focus on obtaining highly-accurate probabilistic estimates. We develop Triad, an adaptive algorithm based on sampling, which can be used to estimate the average local triadic coefficients for a partition of the nodes into buckets. Triad is based on a new class of unbiased estimators, and non-trivial bounds on its sample complexity, enabling the efficient computation of highly accurate estimates. Finally, we show how Triad can be efficiently used in practice on large networks, and we present a case study showing that average local triadic coefficients can capture highorder patterns over collaboration networks.

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025. Vol. 18, no 8, p. 2561-2574
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Probability Theory and Statistics Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-373287DOI: 10.14778/3742728.3742748ISI: 001605518200020Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105021084281OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-373287DiVA, id: diva2:2017635
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51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2025, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, September 1-5, 2025
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Available from: 2025-12-01 Created: 2025-12-01 Last updated: 2025-12-01Bibliographically approved

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