A survey and taxonomy of graph sampling

P Hu, WC Lau - arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5865, 2013 - arxiv.org
Graph sampling is a technique to pick a subset of vertices and/or edges from original graph.
It has a wide spectrum of applications, eg survey hidden population in sociology [54] …

Practical recommendations on crawling online social networks

M Gjoka, M Kurant, CT Butts… - IEEE Journal on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our goal in this paper is to develop a practical framework for obtaining a uniform sample of
users in an online social network (OSN) by crawling its social graph. Such a sample allows …

A survey of sampling method for social media embeddedness relationship

Y Cui, X Li, J Li, H Wang, X Chen - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Social media embeddedness relationships consist of online social networks formed by self-
organized individual actors and significantly affect many aspects of our lives. Since the high …

Exponential-Family Models of Random Graphs

M Schweinberger, PN Krivitsky, CT Butts, JR Stewart - Statistical Science, 2020 - JSTOR
Exponential-family Random Graph Models (ERGMs) constitute a large statistical framework
for modeling dense and sparse random graphs with short-or long-tailed degree distributions …

Midas: Representative sampling from real-world hypergraphs

M Choe, J Yoo, G Lee, W Baek, U Kang… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Graphs are widely used for representing pairwise interactions in complex systems. Since
such real-world graphs are large and often evergrowing, sampling a small representative …

A walk in facebook: Uniform sampling of users in online social networks

M Gjoka, M Kurant, CT Butts, A Markopoulou - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2009 - arxiv.org
Our goal in this paper is to develop a practical framework for obtaining a uniform sample of
users in an online social network (OSN) by crawling its social graph. Such a sample allows …

Estimating network degree distributions under sampling: An inverse problem, with applications to monitoring social media networks

Y Zhang, ED Kolaczyk, BD Spencer - 2015 - projecteuclid.org
Networks are a popular tool for representing elements in a system and their
interconnectedness. Many observed networks can be viewed as only samples of some true …

Pagrol: Parallel graph olap over large-scale attributed graphs

Z Wang, Q Fan, H Wang, KL Tan… - 2014 IEEE 30th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attributed graphs are becoming important tools for modeling information networks, such as
the Web and various social networks (eg Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter). However, it is …

Arya: arbitrary graph pattern mining with decomposition-based sampling

Z Zhu, K Wu, Z Liu - 20th USENIX symposium on networked systems …, 2023 - usenix.org
Graph pattern mining is compute-intensive in processing massive amounts of graph-
structured data. This paper presents Arya, an ultra-fast approximate graph pattern miner that …

The persistence of division: Geography, institutions, and online friendship ties

ES Spiro, ZW Almquist, CT Butts - Socius, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
As noted by theorists such as Blau, Durkheim, Mayhew, and others, interaction opportunity is
a fundamental determinant of social structure. One of the most empirically well established …