Mining Interaction-intensive cores in temporal graphs
摘要
Temporal graphs model the dynamic evolution of nodes and edges and are widely used in domains such as social networks and academic collaboration. The (k, h)-core is a temporal subgraph model where each node connects to at least k others, and each node pair shares at least h temporal edges, reflecting interaction strength. Existing studies focus on (k, h)-core decomposition and maintenance but lack efficient query solutions. To fill this gap, we propose two baselines: an online method and a Full Index method. The online method avoids index construction but offers low query efficiency; the Full Index supports fast queries but incurs high storage cost. To balance efficiency and index size, we design a Tree Index based on node set partitioning and an enhanced Permutation Tree Index. Both significantly reduce storage overhead while supporting fast queries. Experiments on real-world datasets show that our indexes are more compact than the Full Index and consistently deliver better query performance than both baselines.