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Marginalizing over the PageRank Damping Factor

Information Retrieval 2014-09-02 v1

Abstract

In this note, we show how to marginalize over the damping parameter of the PageRank equation so as to obtain a parameter-free version known as TotalRank. Our discussion is meant as a reference and intended to provide a guided tour towards an interesting result that has applications in information retrieval and classification.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1409.0104,
  title  = {Marginalizing over the PageRank Damping Factor},
  author = {Christian Bauckhage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0104},
  year   = {2014}
}
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