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v4.2

    Fast Random Projection

    Overview

    Fast Random Projection, or FastRP in short, is a graph embedding algorithm that is observably faster than the traditional methods such as random walk. It allows the iterative computation of node embeddings so that the similarity matrix need not be explicitly constructed, which speeds up the algorithm. FastRP was proposed by H. Chen et al. in 2019.

    Related materials of the algorithm:

    FastRP Framework

    FastRP algorithm is a procedure with two components: first, similarity matrix construction, then dimension reduction by random projection to get the embeddinng result.

    Similarity Matrix Construction

    FastRP keeps two key features when constructing node similarity matrix:

    1. Preserve high-order proximity in the graph
    2. Perform element-wise normalization on the matrix

    Let S be the adjacency matrix of graph G =(V,E), D be the degree matrix, and A be the transition matrix and A = D-1S. See the example below, the number on each edge represents the edge weight:

    However, directly applying dimension reduction techniques on S or A is problematic. Real-world graphs are usually extremely sparse, which means most of the entries in S or A are 0. However, the absence of edge between two nodes does not imply that there is no association between them.

    The fact is that in matrix A, entry Aij stands for the probablity of node i reaching to node j with 1-step random walk. Furthermore, if raises A to k-th power to get matrix Ak, then Akij denotes the probability of reaching node j from node i in k steps of random walk. Hence, matrix Ak perserves high-order proximity of the graph.

    Now consider the normalization on matrix Ak. First, many Ak of the real-world has a heavy-tailed distribution, normalization is important to balance the influene of node degrees. In addition, it can be proved that Akij → dj/2m when k → ∞, where m = |E| is the number of edges in the graph, and dj is the degree of the j-th node.

    Let's construct a normalization diagonal matrix L and entry Lij = (dj/2m)β, where β is the normalization strength. Normalization strength controls the impact of node degree on the embeddings: when β is negative, the importance of high-degree neighbors is weakened, and the opposite when β is positive.

    Matrix Dimensionality Deduction

    Johnson–Lindenstrauss Lemma

    FastRP is theoretically backed by Johnson–Lindenstrauss Lemma (or JL Lemma for short) originally proposed by W. Johnson and J. Lindenstrauss in 1984, after continued research by later generations, it is now generally accepted as:

    A node set M in a high-dimensional Euclidean space can be embeded into a low-dimensional space via a linear projection R and approximately preserve pairwise distances among nodes, i.e.:

    where 0 < ϵ < 1 is an acceptable distance error, the embedding dimension d is irrelevant to the dimension of the original node set, but depends on the size of the node set n = |M| and ϵ:

    Random Projection

    Random Projection is a simple but efficient approach of dimensionality reduction:

    1. A n×m dataset M as input, where n is the number of elements, m is the original dimensionality (number of features)
    2. Construct a random projection matrix R of m×d, where d is the dimensionality that intend to reduce to (d ≪ n)
    3. Get the low-dimensional matrix N by simply calculating N = M × R, and the final dimensionality would be n×d.

    Dimensionality d depends on the dataset's size n, not on the original dimensionality m. In FastRP algorithm, for graph data, we have m = n.

    The difference among different random projection algorithms ismostly in the construction of R. FastRP adopts Very Sparse Random Projection, proposed by P. Li et al.:

    where s=sqrt(m).

    Algorithm Process

    The process of FastRP algorithm are as followed:

    1. Generate the random projection matrix R
    2. First iteration:generate dimensionality reduction matrix N1 = A ⋅ L ⋅ R
    2. Second iteration: generate dimensionality reduction matrix N2 = A2 ⋅ L ⋅ R = A ⋅ N1
    3. Iterate for k times: generate dimensionality reduction matrix Nk = A ⋅ Nk-1
    4. Generate the final embedding results, i.e., N = α1N1 + ... + αkNk, where α1,...,αk are the iteration weights.

    Command and Configuration

    • Command:algo(fastRP)
    • Configurations for the parameter params():
    Name Type
    Default
    Specification
    Description
    dimension int / >=1 Dimension of node embedding vector
    normalizationStrength float / / Normalization strength β
    iterationWeights []float [0.0,1.0,1.0] >0 Weight for each iteration, the size of the array is the number of iterations
    edge_schema_property []@<schema>?.<property> / Numeric edge property, LTE needed Edge weight property/properties, schema can be either carried or not; edge without any specified property does not participate in the calculation
    node_schema_property []@<schema>?.<property> / Numeric node property, LTE needed Node property/properties to be used as features, schema can be either carried or not; node without any specified property does not participate in the calculation
    propertyDimension int / (0,dimension] Random projection matrix R is formed by concatenation of two parts: the first part is formed by the Very Sparse Random Projection algorithm, the second part of length propertyDimension is a linear combination of the property vectors, using the property values of the node as weights
    limit int -1 -1 or >=0 Number of results to return; return all results if sets to -1 or not set

    Algorithm Execution

    Task Writeback

    1. File Writeback

    Configuration
    Data in Each Column
    filename _id, embedding_result

    2. Property Writeback

    Not supported by this algorithm.

    3. Statistics Writeback

    This algorithm has no statistics.

    Direct Return

    Alias Ordinal Type
    Description
    Column Name
    0 []perNode Node and its graph embedding results _uuid, embedding_result

    Streaming Return

    Alias Ordinal Type
    Description
    Column Name
    0 []perNode Node and its graph embedding results _uuid, embedding_result

    Real-time Statistics

    This algorithm has no statistics.

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