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Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Publications and source records attributed to Sarunas Girdzijauskas.

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arXiv2020

Graph Neighborhood Attentive Pooling

Network representation learning (NRL) is a powerful technique for learning low-dimensional vector representation of high-dimensional and sparse graphs. Most studies explore the structure and metadata associated with the graph using random walks and employ an unsupervised or semi-supervised learning schemes. Learning in these methods is context-free, because only a single representation per node is learned. Recently studies have argued on the sufficiency of a single representation and proposed a context-sensitive approach that proved to be highly effective in applications such as link prediction and ranking. However, most of these methods rely on additional textual features that require RNNs or CNNs to capture high-level features or rely on a community detection algorithm to identify multiple contexts of a node. In this study, without requiring additional features nor a community detection algorithm, we propose a novel context-sensitive algorithm called GAP that learns to attend on different parts of a node's neighborhood using attentive pooling networks. We show the efficacy of GAP using three real-world datasets on link prediction and node clustering tasks and compare it against 10 popular and state-of-the-art (SOTA) baselines. GAP consistently outperforms them and achieves up to ~9% and ~20% gain over the best performing methods on link prediction and clustering tasks, respectively.

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arXiv2017

Load Balancing for Skewed Streams on Heterogeneous Cluster

Streaming applications frequently encounter skewed workloads and execute on heterogeneous clusters. Optimal resource utilization in such adverse conditions becomes a challenge, as it requires inferring the resource capacities and input distribution at run time. In this paper, we tackle the aforementioned challenges by modeling them as a load balancing problem. We propose a novel partitioning strategy called Consistent Grouping (CG), which enables each processing element instance (PEI) to process the workload according to its capacity. The main idea behind CG is the notion of small, equal-sized virtual workers at the sources, which are assigned to workers based on their capacities. We provide a theoretical analysis of the proposed algorithm and show via extensive empirical evaluation that our proposed scheme outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches, like key grouping. In particular, CG achieves 3.44x better performance in terms of latency compared to key grouping.

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arXiv2017

Fully Dynamic Algorithm for Top-$k$ Densest Subgraphs

Given a large graph, the densest-subgraph problem asks to find a subgraph with maximum average degree. When considering the top-$k$ version of this problem, a naïve solution is to iteratively find the densest subgraph and remove it in each iteration. However, such a solution is impractical due to high processing cost. The problem is further complicated when dealing with dynamic graphs, since adding or removing an edge requires re-running the algorithm. In this paper, we study the top-$k$ densest-subgraph problem in the sliding-window model and propose an efficient fully-dynamic algorithm. The input of our algorithm consists of an edge stream, and the goal is to find the node-disjoint subgraphs that maximize the sum of their densities. In contrast to existing state-of-the-art solutions that require iterating over the entire graph upon any update, our algorithm profits from the observation that updates only affect a limited region of the graph. Therefore, the top-$k$ densest subgraphs are maintained by only applying local updates. We provide a theoretical analysis of the proposed algorithm and show empirically that the algorithm often generates denser subgraphs than state-of-the-art competitors. Experiments show an improvement in efficiency of up to five orders of magnitude compared to state-of-the-art solutions.

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arXiv2015

Socially-Aware Distributed Hash Tables for Decentralized Online Social Networks

Many decentralized online social networks (DOSNs) have been proposed due to an increase in awareness related to privacy and scalability issues in centralized social networks. Such decentralized networks transfer processing and storage functionalities from the service providers towards the end users. DOSNs require individualistic implementation for services, (i.e., search, information dissemination, storage, and publish/subscribe). However, many of these services mostly perform social queries, where OSN users are interested in accessing information of their friends. In our work, we design a socially-aware distributed hash table (DHTs) for efficient implementation of DOSNs. In particular, we propose a gossip-based algorithm to place users in a DHT, while maximizing the social awareness among them. Through a set of experiments, we show that our approach reduces the lookup latency by almost 30% and improves the reliability of the communication by nearly 10% via trusted contacts.

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