Graph mining
Our mission is to build the most scalable library for graph algorithms and analysis and apply it to a multitude of Google products.
Our mission is to build the most scalable library for graph algorithms and analysis and apply it to a multitude of Google products.
About the team
We formalize data mining and machine learning challenges as graph problems and perform fundamental research in those fields leading to publications in top venues. Our algorithms and systems are used in a wide array of Google products such as Search, YouTube, AdWords, Play, Maps, and Social.
Team focus summaries
Featured publications
Measuring Re-identification Risk
Travis Dick
Adel Javanmard
Josh Karlin
Gabriel Henrique Nunes
SIGMOD (2023)
Near-Optimal Private and Scalable k-Clustering
Shyam Narayanan
NeurIPS 2022 (2022)
Optimal Distributed Submodular Optimization via Sketching
Hossein Esfandiari
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2018), pp. 1138-1147
Tackling Provably Hard Representative Selection via Graph Neural Networks
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2023)
Massively Parallel Computation via Remote Memory Access
Laxman Dhulipala
Soheil Behnezhad
Warren Schudy
SPAA 2019
Affinity Clustering: Hierarchical Clustering at Scale
Soheil Behnezhad
Mahsa Derakhshan
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi
Raimondas Kiveris
NIPS 2017, pp. 6867-6877
Distributed Balanced Partitioning via Linear Embedding
Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), ACM (2016), pp. 387-396
Grale: Designing Networks for Graph Learning
Alexandru Moșoi
Sam Ruth
Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Association for Computing Machinery (2020), 2523–2532
Highlighted work
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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Algorithmic advancesThis post discusses progress made in several areas in 2022, including scalability, graph algorithms, privacy, market algorithms, and algorithmic foundations. Some of the important points are the development of new algorithms for handling huge datasets, achieving faster running times for graph algorithms including graph building and clustering, and privacy-preserving machine learning. -
Massively Parallel Graph Computation: From Theory to PracticeAdaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC) augments the theoretical capabilities of MapReduce, providing a pathway to solve many graph problems in fewer computation rounds; the suite of algorithms, which includes algorithms for maximal independent set, maximum matching, connected components and minimum spanning tree, work up to 7x faster than current state-of-the-art approaches. -
Balanced Partitioning and Hierarchical Clustering at ScaleThis post presents the distributed algorithm we developed which is more applicable to large instances. -
Innovations in Graph Representation LearningWe share the results of two papers highlighting innovations in the area of graph representation learning: the first paper introduces a novel technique to learn multiple embeddings per node and the second addresses the fundamental problem of hyperparameter tuning in graph embeddings. -
Graph Mining & Learning @ NeurIPS 2020The Mining and Learning with Graphs at Scale workshop focused on methods for operating on massive information networks: graph-based learning and graph algorithms for a wide range of areas such as detecting fraud and abuse, query clustering and duplication detection, image and multi-modal data analysis, privacy-respecting data mining and recommendation, and experimental design under interference. -
Graph Neural Networks in TensorFlowGraph Neural Networks (GNNs) in TensorFlow (TF-GNN). The post discusses typical GNN architectures, why GNNs are useful and some GNN applications. Most importantly, it announces the release of TensorFlow GNN 1.0—Google's open-source GNN library for TensorFlow. -
Robust Graph Neural NetworksThis blog describes our framework for shift-robust Graph Neural Networks (SR-GNN) that can reduce the influence of biased training data on many GNN architectures. Increasing the robustness of GNN models helps to ensure accurate output in the face of changing data. -
GraphWorld: Advances in Graph BenchmarkingThis blog post introduces GraphWorld, a system that generates synthetic graphs for benchmarking GNNs. GraphWorld allows researchers to explore GNN performance on a wider variety of graphs than was previously possible and identify weaknesses in current GNN Models. -
Teaching old labels new tricks in heterogeneous graphsComplex data struggles with limited labels for certain types, hurting HGNN performance. Our Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) tackles this by finding connections between node types. KTN transfers knowledge from well-labeled nodes to those with few labels, allowing HGNNs to learn better representations for all data points. -
Advancements in machine learning for machine learningIn this blog post, we present exciting advancements in machine learning to improve machine learning (ML 4 ML)! In particular, we show how we use Graph Neural Networks to improve the efficiency of ML workloads by optimizing the choices made by the ML Compiler. -
Differentially private clustering for large-scale datasetsThis blog highlights advancements in privacy-preserving clustering: 1) a novel ICML 2023 algorithm and 2) open-source scalable k-means code. We also discuss applying these techniques to inform public health via COVID Vaccine Insights.
Some of our locations
Some of our people
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Alessandro Epasto
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Machine Intelligence
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Allan Heydon
- Machine Intelligence
- Software Engineering
- Software Systems
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Anton Tsitsulin
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Machine Intelligence
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Arjun Gopalan
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Machine Intelligence
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Bahare Fatemi
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Machine Perception
- Natural Language Processing
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Brandon Asher Mayer
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Machine Intelligence
- Machine Perception
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Bryan Perozzi
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Machine Intelligence
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CJ Carey
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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David Eisenstat
- Algorithms and Theory
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Dustin Zelle
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Machine Intelligence
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Goran Žužić
- Algorithms and Theory
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Hendrik Fichtenberger
- Algorithms and Theory
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Jason Lee
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Johannes Gasteiger, né Klicpera
- Machine Intelligence
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Jonathan Halcrow
- Algorithms and Theory
- Machine Intelligence
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Kevin Aydin
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Jakub Łącki
- Algorithms and Theory
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Laxman Dhulipala
- Algorithms and Theory
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Lin Chen
- Algorithms and Theory
- Machine Intelligence
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Matthew Fahrbach
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Mohammadhossein Bateni
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Nikos Parotsidis
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Machine Intelligence
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Peilin Zhong
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Rajesh Jayaram
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Sami Abu-El-Haija
- Algorithms and Theory
- Machine Perception
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Sasan Tavakkol
- Algorithms and Theory
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Machine Intelligence
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Siddhartha Visveswara Jayanti
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Silvio Lattanzi
- Algorithms and Theory
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
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Gang (Thomas) Fu
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Machine Learning
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Vahab S. Mirrokni
- Data Mining and Modeling
- Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
- Algorithms and Theory
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Vincent Pierre Cohen-addad
- Algorithms and Theory
- Machine Intelligence
