$ν$-LPA: Fast GPU-based Label Propagation Algorithm (LPA) for Community Detection

$ν$-LPA: Fast GPU-based Label Propagation Algorithm (LPA) for Community Detection
Subhajit Sahu
AbstractCommunity detection is the problem of identifying natural divisions in networks. Efficient parallel algorithms for identifying such divisions are critical in a number of applications. This report presents an optimized implementation of the Label Propagation Algorithm (LPA) for community detection, featuring an asynchronous LPA with a Pick-Less (PL) method every 4 iterations to handle community swaps, ideal for SIMT hardware like GPUs. It also introduces a novel per-vertex hashtable with hybrid quadratic-double probing for collision resolution. On an NVIDIA A100 GPU, our implementation, $\nu$-LPA, outperforms FLPA, NetworKit LPA, and GVE-LPA by 364x, 62x, and 2.6x, respectively, on a server with dual 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 6226R processors - processing 3.0B edges/s on a 2.2B edge graph - and achieves 4.7% higher modularity than FLPA, but 6.1% and 2.2% lower than NetworKit LPA and GVE-LPA.