Universally Useful Primitives for Aligning Networks Across Time and Space

Abstract

Their team has, in the course of working on the DARPA Modeling Adversarial Activity (MAA) program, further developed a fast, flexible suite of graph matching tools designed to robustly align large networks in the presence of noise, paying special heed to developing methods for multiplex matching; developed the theory and methodology behind Graph Matching Matched Filters which provide a principled, scalable method for discovering noisy subgraphs in a larger background graph; provided an open source R code-base, denoted iGraphMatch, for implementing our graph matching and graph matching matched filters methods and their competitors at scale; further developed the theory of vertex nomination, developing the analogues of the classical statistical concepts of consistency and Bayes optimality in the context of vertex nomination; developed a novel concept of adversarial contamination and data-adaptive regularization inthe context of vertex nomination; developed a suite of flexible vertex nomination algorithms designed to be implemented on large, noisy networks; produced illustrative simulations and data analyses on MAA provided data and on externally provided real data sources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1101398

Entities

People

  • Carey E. Priebe
  • Daniel L. Sussman
  • Vincent Lyzinski
  • Youngser Park

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Data
  • Computer Networks
  • Consistency
  • Contamination
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Filters
  • Governments
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Matched Filters
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Simulations
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Networks
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space