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Area of Science:

  • Graph theory and network analysis
  • Probabilistic graph algorithms

Background:

  • Truss decomposition identifies hierarchical dense substructures in graphs.
  • Existing methods struggle with scalability in large probabilistic graphs due to computational challenges in calculating edge-triangle relationships.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop scalable algorithms for truss decomposition in probabilistic graphs.
  • To address the computational bottleneck of finding tail probabilities for edge-triangle counts.

Main Methods:

  • A Central Limit Theorem (CLT)-based peeling algorithm for efficient tail probability estimation.
  • An h-index computation-based method for progressive truss value estimation with a smaller memory footprint.

Main Results:

  • The proposed CLT-based algorithm significantly improves scalability over state-of-the-art methods for probabilistic graph truss decomposition.
  • The h-index algorithm offers progressive results, exactness, and reduced memory usage by processing edges individually.

Conclusions:

  • Both novel algorithms demonstrate superior scalability for truss decomposition in large probabilistic networks.
  • These advancements enable more efficient analysis of dense substructures in complex probabilistic graph data.