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On the Performance of Percolation Graph Matching

Yartseva, Lyudmila  
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Grossglauser, Matthias  
2013
Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN)
COSN'13: Conference on Online Social Networks

Graph matching is a generalization of the classic graph isomorphism problem. By using only their structures a graph-matching algorithm finds a map between the vertex sets of two similar graphs. This has applications in the de-anonymization of social and information networks and, more generally, in the merging of structural data from different domains. One class of graph-matching algorithms starts with a known seed set of matched node pairs. Despite the success of these algorithms in practical applications, their performance has been observed to be very sensitive to the size of the seed set. The lack of a rigorous understanding of parameters and performance makes it difficult to design systems and predict their behavior. In this paper, we propose and analyze a very simple percolation $!$-based graph matching algorithm that incrementally maps every pair of nodes $(i,j)$ with at least $r$ neighboring mapped pairs. The simplicity of this algorithm makes possible a rigorous analysis that relies on recent advances in bootstrap percolation theory for the $G(n,p)$ random graph. We prove conditions on the model parameters in which percolation graph matching succeeds, and we establish a phase transition in the size of the seed set. We also confirm through experiments that the performance of percolation graph matching is surprisingly good, both for synthetic graphs and real social-network data.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1145/2512938.2512952
Author(s)
Yartseva, Lyudmila  
Grossglauser, Matthias  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

ACM

Published in
Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN)
Subjects

Graph matching

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graph sampling

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bootstrap percolation

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social networks

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de-anonymization

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
COSN'13: Conference on Online Social Networks

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

October 7-8, 2013

Available on Infoscience
October 3, 2013
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