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Ankit Batra
dblp:400/6603
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Graph learning · 67% Efficient and distributed learning · 33% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Recommender systems · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
distributed training |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GiGL: Large-Scale Graph Neural Networks at Snapchat · KDD (2) 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph neural network |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GiGL: Large-Scale Graph Neural Networks at Snapchat · KDD (2) 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph neural network › scalable graph neural network
scalable graph neural network training |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GiGL: Large-Scale Graph Neural Networks at Snapchat · KDD (2) 2025 |
Recommender systems
content recommendation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | GiGL: Large-Scale Graph Neural Networks at Snapchat · KDD (2) 2025 |
Recommender systems › social recommendation
friend recommendation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | GiGL: Large-Scale Graph Neural Networks at Snapchat · KDD (2) 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
subgraph sampling · 1.7graph data preprocessing · 1.7distributed training · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | GiGL: Large-Scale Graph Neural Networks at SnapchatabstractRecent advances in graph machine learning (ML) with the introduction of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have led to a widespread interest in applying these approaches to business applications at scale. GNNs enable differentiable end-to-end (E2E) learning of model parameters given graph structure which enables optimization towards popular node, edge (link) and graph-level tasks. While the research innovation in new GNN layers and training strategies has been rapid, industrial adoption and utility of GNNs has lagged considerably due to the unique scale challenges that large-scale graph ML problems create. In this work, we share our approach to training, inference, and utilization of GNNs at Snapchat. To this end, we present GiGL (Gigantic Graph Learning), an open-source library to enable large-scale distributed graph ML to the benefit of researchers, ML engineers, and practitioners. We use GiGL internally at Snapchat to manage the heavy lifting of GNN workflows, including graph data preprocessing from relational DBs, subgraph sampling, distributed training, inference, and orchestration. GiGL is designed to interface cleanly with open-source GNN modeling libraries prominent in academia like PyTorch Geometric (PyG), while handling scaling and productionization challenges that make it easier for internal practitioners to focus on modeling. GiGL is used in multiple production settings, and has powered over 35 launches across multiple business domains in the last 2 years in the contexts of friend recommendation, content recommendation and advertising. This work details high-level design and tools the library provides, scaling properties, case studies in diverse business settings with large-scale graphs up to hundreds of millions of nodes, tens of billions of edges, and hundreds of node and edge features, and several key lessons learned in employing graph ML at scale on large social data. GiGL is open-sourced at https://github.com/Snapchat/GiGL. Tong Zhao 0003, Yozen Liu, Matthew Kolodner, Kyle Montemayor, Elham Ghazizadeh, Ankit Batra, Xiaobin Gao, Jiwen Ren, Se Rim Park, Peicheng Yu, Shubham Vij, Neil Shah |
KDD (2) | 6 |