Title
Average Whenever You Meet: Opportunistic Protocols for Community Detection.
Abstract
Consider the following asynchronous, opportunistic communication model over a graph G: in each round, one edge is activated uniformly and independently at random and (only) its two endpoints can exchange messages and perform local computations. Under this model, we study the following random process: The first time a vertex is an endpoint of an active edge, it chooses a random number, say +/- 1 with probability 1/2; then, in each round, the two endpoints of the currently active edge update their values to their average.We provide a rigorous analysis of the above process showing that, if G exhibits a two-community structure (for example, two expanders connected by a sparse cut), the values held by the nodes will collectively reflect the underlying community structure over a suitable phase of the above process. Our analysis requires new concentration bounds on the product of certain random matrices that are technically challenging and possibly of independent interest.We then exploit our analysis to design the first opportunistic protocols that approximately recover community structure using only logarithmic (or polylogarithmic, depending on the sparsity of the cut) work per node.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
ESA
Asynchronous communication,Discrete mathematics,Vertex (geometry),Computer science,Stochastic process,Models of communication,Exploit,Logarithm,Random matrix,Computation
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.35
References 
Authors
9
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Becchetti194555.75
Andrea E. F. Clementi2116885.30
Pasin Manurangsi36228.79
Emanuele Natale47414.52
Francesco Pasquale542128.22
Prasad Raghavendra6101350.58
Luca Trevisan72995232.34