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Current flow closeness centrality (CFCC) has a better discriminating ability than the ordinary closeness centrality based on shortest paths. In this paper, we extend this notion to a group of vertices in a weighted graph, and then study the problem of finding a subset S of k vertices to maximize its CFCC C(S), both theoretically and experimentally. We show that the problem is NP-hard, but propose two greedy algorithms for minimizing the reciprocal of C(S) with provable guarantees using the monotoncity and supermodularity. The first is a deterministic algorithm with an approximation factor (1−kk−1⋅1e) and cubic running time; while the second is a randomized algorithm with a (1−kk−1⋅1e−ϵ)-approximation and nearly-linear running time for any ϵ>0. Extensive experiments on model and real networks demonstrate that our algorithms are effective and efficient, with the second algorithm being scalable to massive networks with more than a million vertices.
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Sampling and Reconstruction of Graph Signals via Weak Submodularity and Semidefinite Relaxation
We study the problem of sampling a bandlimited graph signal in the presence of noise, where the objective is to select a node subset of prescribed cardinality that minimizes the signal reconstruction mean squared error (MSE). To that end, we formulate the task at hand as the minimization of MSE subject to binary constraints, and approximate the resulting NP-hard problem via semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation. Moreover, we provide an alternative formulation based on maximizing a monotone weak submodular function and propose a randomized-greedy algorithm to find a sub-optimal subset. We then derive a worst-case performance guarantee on the MSE returned by the randomized greedy algorithm for general non-stationary graph signals. The efficacy of the proposed methods is illustrated through numerical simulations on synthetic and realworld graphs. Notably, the randomized greedy algorithm yields an order-of-magnitude speedup over state-of-the-art greedy sampling schemes, while incurring only a marginal MSE performance loss.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1750428
- PAR ID:
- 10087938
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 4179 to 4183
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8461925
