Speedup Graph Processing by Graph Ordering

Summary: Graph ordering to speed up graph processing by minimizing cache misses, without altering algorithms. NP-hard; bounded-approximation algorithm and a faster variant with a data structure; experiments vs METIS on 8 graphs and 9 algorithms show cache-miss reductions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h1f38151ed3fea01c
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 0.00010647473
Overall Rank: 1,438 | 90.34%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2915220

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Authors

1. Hao Wei (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
2. Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
3. Can Lu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
4. Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wei_sigmod16,
        title = {{Speedup Graph Processing by Graph Ordering}},
        author = {Wei, Hao and Yu, Jeffrey Xu and Lu, Can and Lin, Xuemin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2915220},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2915220},
        year = {2016}
}

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