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Random Surfing Without Teleportation

Social and Information Networks 2016-04-20 v2 Information Retrieval Physics and Society

Abstract

In the standard Random Surfer Model, the teleportation matrix is necessary to ensure that the final PageRank vector is well-defined. The introduction of this matrix, however, results in serious problems and imposes fundamental limitations to the quality of the ranking vectors. In this work, building on the recently proposed NCDawareRank framework, we exploit the decomposition of the underlying space into blocks, and we derive easy to check necessary and sufficient conditions for random surfing without teleportation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1506.00092,
  title  = {Random Surfing Without Teleportation},
  author = {Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos and John D. Garofalakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00092},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages. Published in the Volume: "Algorithms, Probability, Networks and Games, Springer-Verlag, 2015". (The updated version corrects small typos/errors)

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