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    Eigenvector Centrality

    ✓ File Writeback ✓ Property Writeback ✓ Direct Return ✓ Stream Return ✕ Stats

    Overview

    Eigenvector centrality measures the power or influence of a node. In a directed network, the power of a node comes from its incoming neighbors. Thus, the eigenvector centrality score of a node depends not only on how many in-links it has, but also on how powerful its incoming neighbors are. Connections from high-scoring nodes contribute more to the score of the node than connections from low-scoring nodes. In the disease spreading scenario, a node with higher eigenvector centrality is more likely to be close to the source of infection, which needs special precautions.

    The well-known PageRank is a variant of eigenvector centrality.

    Eigenvector centrality takes on values between 0 to 1, nodes with higher scores are more influential in the network.

    Concepts

    Eigenvector Centrality

    The power (score) of each node can be computed in a recursive way. Take the graph below as as example, adjacent matrix A reflects the in-links of each node. Initialzing that each node has score of 1 and it is represented by vector s(0).

    In each round of power transition, update the score of each node by the sum of scores of all its incoming neighbors. After one round, vector s(1) = As(0) is as follows, L2-normalization is applied to rescale:

    After k iterations, s(k) = As(k-1) = Aks(0). As k grows, s(k) stabilizes. In this example, the stablization is reached after ~20 rounds.

    In fact, s(k) converges to the eigenvector of matrix A that corresponds to the largest absolute eigenvalue, hence elements in s(k) is referred to as eigenvector centrality.

    Eigenvalue and Eigenvector

    Given A is an n x n square matrix, λ is a constant, x is an non-zero n x 1 vector. If the equation Ax = λx is true, then λ is called the eigenvalue of A, and x is the eigenvector of A that corresponds to the eigenvalue λ.

    The above matrix A has 4 eigenvalues λ1, λ2, λ3 and λ4 that correspond to eigenvectors x1, x2, x3 and x4 respectively. x1 is the eigenvector corresponding to the dominate eigenvalue λ1 that has the largtest absolute value.

    According to the Perron-Forbenius theorem, if matrix A has eigenvalues 1| > |λ2| ≥ |λ3| ≥ ... ≥ |λn|, as k → ∞, the direction of s(k) = Aks(0) converges to x1, and s(0) can be any nonzero vector.

    Power Iteration

    For the best computation efficiency and accuracy, this algorithm adopts the power iteration approach to compute the dominate eigenvector (x1) of matrix A

    • s(1) = As(0)
    • s(2) = As(1) = A2s(0)
    • ...
    • s(k) = As(k-1) = Aks(0)

    The algorithm continues until s(k) converges to within some tolerance, or the maximum iteration rounds is met.

    Considerations

    • The algorithm uses the sum of adjacency matrix and unit matrix (i.e., A = A + I) rather than the adjacency matrix only in order to guarantee the covergence.
    • The eigenvector centrality score of nodes with no in-link converges to 0.
    • Self-loop is counted as one in-link, its weight counted only once (weighted graph).

    Syntax

    • Command: algo(eigenvector_centrality)
    • Parameters:
    Name
    Type
    Spec
    Default
    Optional
    Description
    max_loop_num int >=1 20 Yes Maximum rounds of iterations; the algorithm ends after running for all rounds, even though the condition of tolerance is not met
    tolerance float (0,1) 0.001 Yes When all scores change less than the tolerance between iterations, the result is considered stable and the algorithm ends
    edge_weight_property @<schema>?.<property> Must LTE / Yes Edge properties to use as weights
    limit int ≥-1 -1 Yes Number of results to return, -1 to return all results
    order string asc, desc / Yes Sort nodes by the centrality score

    Examples

    The example is a web network, edge property @link.value can be used as weights:

    File Writeback

    Spec Content
    filename _id,rank
    algo(eigenvector_centrality).params({
      max_loop_num: 15,
      tolerance: 0.01
      }).write({
        file: {
          filename: "rank"
        }
    })
    

    Results: File rank

    web7,4.63007e-06
    web6,0.0198426
    web5,0.255212
    web3,0.459901
    web4,0.255214
    web2,0.573512
    web1,0.573511
    

    Property Writeback

    Spec Content Write to Data Type
    property rank Node property float
    algo(eigenvector_centrality).params({
      edge_weight_property: value  
      }).write({
        db: {
          property: "ec"
        }
    })
    

    Results: Centrality score for each node is written to a new property named ec

    Direct Return

    Alias Ordinal Type
    Description
    Column Name
    0 []perNode Node and its centrality _uuid, rank
    algo(eigenvector_centrality).params({
      max_loop_num: 20,
      tolerance: 0.01,
      edge_weight_property: @link.value,
      order: "desc"
      }) as ec 
    return ec
    

    Results: ec

    _uuid rank
    1 0.73133802
    6 0.48346400
    2 0.43551901
    3 0.17412201
    4 0.098612003
    5 0.041088000
    7 0.0000000

    Stream Return

    Alias Ordinal Type
    Description
    Column Name
    0 []perNode Node and its centrality _uuid, rank

    Example: Calculate weighted eigenvector centrality for all nodes, count the number of nodes with score above 0.4 or otherwise respectively

    algo(eigenvector_centrality).params({
      edge_weight_property: @link.value
      }).stream() as ec
    with case
    when ec.rank > 0.4 then "attention"
    when ec.rank <= 0.4 then "normal"
    END as r
    group by r
    return table(r, count(r))
    

    Results: table(r, count(r))

    r count(r)
    attention 3
    normal 4
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