Algorithms for Large, Sparse Network Alignment Problems

  • Authors:
  • Mohsen Bayati;Margot Gerritsen;David F. Gleich;Amin Saberi;Ying Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Ninth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a new distributed algorithm for sparse variants of the network alignment problem, which occurs in a variety of data mining areas including systems biology, database matching, and computer vision. Our algorithm uses a belief propagation heuristic and provides near optimal solutions for this NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. We show that our algorithm is faster and outperforms or ties existing algorithms on synthetic problems, a problem in bioinformatics, and a problem in ontology matching. We also provide a unified framework for studying and comparing all network alignment solvers.