It's who you know: Graph mining using recursive structural features

Keith Henderson, Brian Gallagher, Lei Li, Leman Akoglu, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Hanghang Tong, Christos Faloutsos

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Abstract

Given a graph, how can we extract good features for the nodes? For example, given two large graphs from the same domain, how can we use information in one to do classification in the other (i.e., perform across-network classification or transfer learning on graphs)? Also, if one of the graphs is anonymized, how can we use information in one to de-anonymize the other? The key step in all such graph mining tasks is to find effective node features. We propose ReFeX (Recursive Feature eXtraction), a novel algorithm, that recursively combines local (node-based) features with neighborhood (egonet-based) features; and outputs regional features - capturing "behavioral" information. We demonstrate how these powerful regional features can be used in within-network and across-network classification and de-anonymization tasks - without relying on homophily, or the availability of class labels. The contributions of our work are as follows: (a) ReFeX is scalable and (b) it is effective, capturing regional ("behavioral") information in large graphs. We report experiments on real graphs from various domains with over 1M edges, where ReFeX outperforms its competitors on typical graph mining tasks like network classification and de-anonymization.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD'11
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages663-671
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9781450308137
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2011 - San Diego, United States
Duration: Aug 21 2011Aug 24 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Conference

Conference17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period8/21/118/24/11

Keywords

  • Feature extraction
  • Graph mining
  • Identity resolution
  • Network classification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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