diff --git a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/EdgeRDD.scala b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/EdgeRDD.scala
index ee368ebb41..63858db2ef 100644
--- a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/EdgeRDD.scala
+++ b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/EdgeRDD.scala
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class EdgeRDD[@specialized ED: ClassManifest](
   override def cache(): EdgeRDD[ED] = persist()
 
   def mapEdgePartitions[ED2: ClassManifest](f: EdgePartition[ED] => EdgePartition[ED2])
-    : EdgeRDD[ED2]= {
+    : EdgeRDD[ED2] = {
     new EdgeRDD[ED2](partitionsRDD.mapPartitions({ iter =>
       val (pid, ep) = iter.next()
       Iterator(Tuple2(pid, f(ep)))
@@ -60,6 +60,27 @@ class EdgeRDD[@specialized ED: ClassManifest](
     }
   }
 
+  def zipEdgePartitions[ED2: ClassManifest, ED3: ClassManifest]
+      (other: EdgeRDD[ED2])
+      (f: (EdgePartition[ED], EdgePartition[ED2]) => EdgePartition[ED3]): EdgeRDD[ED3] = {
+    new EdgeRDD[ED3](partitionsRDD.zipPartitions(other.partitionsRDD, preservesPartitioning = true) {
+      (thisIter, otherIter) =>
+        val (pid, thisEPart) = thisIter.next()
+        val (_, otherEPart) = otherIter.next()
+      Iterator(Tuple2(pid, f(thisEPart, otherEPart)))
+    })
+  }
+
+  def innerJoin[ED2: ClassManifest, ED3: ClassManifest]
+      (other: EdgeRDD[ED2])
+      (f: (Vid, Vid, ED, ED2) => ED3): EdgeRDD[ED3] = {
+    val ed2Manifest = classManifest[ED2]
+    val ed3Manifest = classManifest[ED3]
+    zipEdgePartitions(other) { (thisEPart, otherEPart) =>
+      thisEPart.innerJoin(otherEPart)(f)(ed2Manifest, ed3Manifest)
+    }
+  }
+
   def collectVids(): RDD[Vid] = {
     partitionsRDD.flatMap { case (_, p) => Array.concat(p.srcIds, p.dstIds) }
   }
diff --git a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/Graph.scala b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/Graph.scala
index 0dc5ec8b24..e8fa8e611c 100644
--- a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/Graph.scala
+++ b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/Graph.scala
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ abstract class Graph[VD: ClassManifest, ED: ClassManifest] {
    * along with their vertex data.
    *
    */
-  val edges: RDD[Edge[ED]]
+  val edges: EdgeRDD[ED]
 
   /**
    * Get the edges with the vertex data associated with the adjacent
@@ -197,6 +197,14 @@ abstract class Graph[VD: ClassManifest, ED: ClassManifest] {
   def subgraph(epred: EdgeTriplet[VD,ED] => Boolean = (x => true),
     vpred: (Vid, VD) => Boolean = ((v,d) => true) ): Graph[VD, ED]
 
+  /**
+   * Subgraph of this graph with only vertices and edges from the other graph.
+   * @param other the graph to project this graph onto
+   * @return a graph with vertices and edges that exists in both the current graph and other,
+   * with vertex and edge data from the current graph.
+   */
+  def mask[VD2: ClassManifest, ED2: ClassManifest](other: Graph[VD2, ED2]): Graph[VD, ED]
+
   /**
    * This function merges multiple edges between two vertices into a single Edge. For correct
    * results, the graph must have been partitioned using partitionBy.
diff --git a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/GraphOps.scala b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/GraphOps.scala
index 7b9eb88b7b..091c778275 100644
--- a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/GraphOps.scala
+++ b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/GraphOps.scala
@@ -237,4 +237,35 @@ class GraphOps[VD: ClassManifest, ED: ClassManifest](graph: Graph[VD, ED]) {
     graph.outerJoinVertices(table)(uf)
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Filter the graph by computing some values to filter on, and applying the predicates.
+   *
+   * @param preprocess a function to compute new vertex and edge data before filtering
+   * @param epred edge pred to filter on after preprocess, see more details under Graph#subgraph
+   * @param vpred vertex pred to filter on after prerocess, see more details under Graph#subgraph
+   * @tparam VD2 vertex type the vpred operates on
+   * @tparam ED2 edge type the epred operates on
+   * @return a subgraph of the orginal graph, with its data unchanged
+   *
+   * @example This function can be used to filter the graph based on some property, without
+   * changing the vertex and edge values in your program. For example, we could remove the vertices
+   * in a graph with 0 outdegree
+   *
+   * {{{
+   * graph.filter(
+   *   graph => {
+   *     val degrees: VertexSetRDD[Int] = graph.outDegrees
+   *     graph.outerJoinVertices(degrees) {(vid, data, deg) => deg.getOrElse(0)}
+   *   },
+   *   vpred = (vid: Vid, deg:Int) => deg > 0
+   * )
+   * }}}
+   *
+   */
+  def filter[VD2: ClassManifest, ED2: ClassManifest](
+      preprocess: Graph[VD, ED] => Graph[VD2, ED2],
+      epred: (EdgeTriplet[VD2, ED2]) => Boolean = (x: EdgeTriplet[VD2, ED2]) => true,
+      vpred: (Vid, VD2) => Boolean = (v:Vid, d:VD2) => true): Graph[VD, ED] = {
+    graph.mask(preprocess(graph).subgraph(epred, vpred))
+  }
 } // end of GraphOps
diff --git a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/impl/EdgePartition.scala b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/impl/EdgePartition.scala
index bfdafcc542..e97522feae 100644
--- a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/impl/EdgePartition.scala
+++ b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/impl/EdgePartition.scala
@@ -98,6 +98,40 @@ class EdgePartition[@specialized(Char, Int, Boolean, Byte, Long, Float, Double)
     builder.toEdgePartition
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Apply `f` to all edges present in both `this` and `other` and return a new EdgePartition
+   * containing the resulting edges.
+   *
+   * If there are multiple edges with the same src and dst in `this`, `f` will be invoked once for
+   * each edge, but each time it may be invoked on any corresponding edge in `other`.
+   *
+   * If there are multiple edges with the same src and dst in `other`, `f` will only be invoked
+   * once.
+   */
+  def innerJoin[ED2: ClassManifest, ED3: ClassManifest]
+      (other: EdgePartition[ED2])
+      (f: (Vid, Vid, ED, ED2) => ED3): EdgePartition[ED3] = {
+    val builder = new EdgePartitionBuilder[ED3]
+    var i = 0
+    var j = 0
+    // For i = index of each edge in `this`...
+    while (i < size && j < other.size) {
+      val srcId = this.srcIds(i)
+      val dstId = this.dstIds(i)
+      // ... forward j to the index of the corresponding edge in `other`, and...
+      while (j < other.size && other.srcIds(j) < srcId) { j += 1 }
+      if (j < other.size && other.srcIds(j) == srcId) {
+        while (j < other.size && other.srcIds(j) == srcId && other.dstIds(j) < dstId) { j += 1 }
+        if (j < other.size && other.srcIds(j) == srcId && other.dstIds(j) == dstId) {
+          // ... run `f` on the matching edge
+          builder.add(srcId, dstId, f(srcId, dstId, this.data(i), other.data(j)))
+        }
+      }
+      i += 1
+    }
+    builder.toEdgePartition
+  }
+
   /**
    * The number of edges in this partition
    *
diff --git a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/impl/GraphImpl.scala b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/impl/GraphImpl.scala
index 0adc350187..e7f975253a 100644
--- a/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/impl/GraphImpl.scala
+++ b/graph/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/impl/GraphImpl.scala
@@ -215,6 +215,14 @@ class GraphImpl[VD: ClassManifest, ED: ClassManifest] protected (
     new GraphImpl(newVTable, newETable)
   } // end of subgraph
 
+  override def mask[VD2: ClassManifest, ED2: ClassManifest] (
+      other: Graph[VD2, ED2]): Graph[VD, ED] = {
+    val newVerts = vertices.innerJoin(other.vertices) { (vid, v, w) => v }
+    val newEdges = edges.innerJoin(other.edges) { (src, dst, v, w) => v }
+    new GraphImpl(newVerts, newEdges)
+
+  }
+
   override def groupEdges(merge: (ED, ED) => ED): Graph[VD, ED] = {
     ClosureCleaner.clean(merge)
     val newETable = edges.mapEdgePartitions(_.groupEdges(merge))
diff --git a/graph/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/GraphSuite.scala b/graph/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/GraphSuite.scala
index a85a31f79d..f6bb201a83 100644
--- a/graph/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/GraphSuite.scala
+++ b/graph/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graph/GraphSuite.scala
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ import scala.util.Random
 import org.scalatest.FunSuite
 
 import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
+import org.apache.spark.graph.Graph._
 import org.apache.spark.graph.LocalSparkContext._
+import org.apache.spark.graph.impl.EdgePartition
 import org.apache.spark.graph.impl.EdgePartitionBuilder
 import org.apache.spark.rdd._
 
@@ -183,6 +185,53 @@ class GraphSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
     }
   }
 
+  test("mask") {
+    withSpark(new SparkContext("local", "test")) { sc =>
+      val n = 5
+      val vertices = sc.parallelize((0 to n).map(x => (x:Vid, x)))
+      val edges = sc.parallelize((1 to n).map(x => Edge(0, x, x)))
+      val graph: Graph[Int, Int] = Graph(vertices, edges)
+
+      val subgraph = graph.subgraph(
+        e => e.dstId != 4L,
+        (vid, vdata) => vid != 3L
+      ).mapVertices((vid, vdata) => -1).mapEdges(e => -1)
+
+      val projectedGraph = graph.mask(subgraph)
+
+      val v = projectedGraph.vertices.collect().toSet
+      assert(v === Set((0,0), (1,1), (2,2), (4,4), (5,5)))
+
+      // the map is necessary because of object-reuse in the edge iterator
+      val e = projectedGraph.edges.map(e => Edge(e.srcId, e.dstId, e.attr)).collect().toSet
+      assert(e === Set(Edge(0,1,1), Edge(0,2,2), Edge(0,5,5)))
+
+    }
+  }
+
+  test ("filter") {
+    withSpark(new SparkContext("local", "test")) { sc =>
+      val n = 5
+      val vertices = sc.parallelize((0 to n).map(x => (x:Vid, x)))
+      val edges = sc.parallelize((1 to n).map(x => Edge(0, x, x)))
+      val graph: Graph[Int, Int] = Graph(vertices, edges)
+      val filteredGraph = graph.filter(
+        graph => {
+          val degrees: VertexRDD[Int] = graph.outDegrees
+          graph.outerJoinVertices(degrees) {(vid, data, deg) => deg.getOrElse(0)}
+        },
+        vpred = (vid: Vid, deg:Int) => deg > 0
+      )
+
+      val v = filteredGraph.vertices.collect().toSet
+      assert(v === Set((0,0)))
+
+      // the map is necessary because of object-reuse in the edge iterator
+      val e = filteredGraph.edges.map(e => Edge(e.srcId, e.dstId, e.attr)).collect().toSet
+      assert(e.isEmpty)
+    }
+  }
+
   test("VertexSetRDD") {
     withSpark(new SparkContext("local", "test")) { sc =>
       val n = 100
@@ -231,4 +280,19 @@ class GraphSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
     assert(edgePartition.indexIterator(_ == 0).map(_.copy()).toList === edgesFrom0)
     assert(edgePartition.indexIterator(_ == 1).map(_.copy()).toList === edgesFrom1)
   }
+
+  test("EdgePartition.innerJoin") {
+    def makeEdgePartition[A: ClassManifest](xs: Iterable[(Int, Int, A)]): EdgePartition[A] = {
+      val builder = new EdgePartitionBuilder[A]
+      for ((src, dst, attr) <- xs) { builder.add(src: Vid, dst: Vid, attr) }
+      builder.toEdgePartition
+    }
+    val aList = List((0, 1, 0), (1, 0, 0), (1, 2, 0), (5, 4, 0), (5, 5, 0))
+    val bList = List((0, 1, 0), (1, 0, 0), (1, 1, 0), (3, 4, 0), (5, 5, 0))
+    val a = makeEdgePartition(aList)
+    val b = makeEdgePartition(bList)
+
+    assert(a.innerJoin(b) { (src, dst, a, b) => a }.iterator.map(_.copy()).toList ===
+      List(Edge(0, 1, 0), Edge(1, 0, 0), Edge(5, 5, 0)))
+  }
 }