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We propose a simple and optimal algorithm, BackMC, for local PageRank estimation in undirected graphs: given an arbitrary target node $t$ in an undirected graph $G$ comprising $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, BackMC accurately estimates the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hanzhi Wang

PageRank has numerous applications in information retrieval, reputation systems, machine learning, and graph partitioning. In this paper, we study PageRank in undirected random graphs with an expansion property. The Chung-Lu random graph is…

We study the problem of estimating a vertex's PageRank within a constant relative error, with constant probability. We prove that an adaptive variant of the simple classic bidirectional algorithm is instance-optimal up to a polylogarithmic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mikkel Thorup , Hanzhi Wang

As a measure of vertex importance according to the graph structure, PageRank has been widely applied in various fields. While many PageRank algorithms have been proposed in the past decades, few of them take into account whether the graph…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Qi Zhang , Rongxia Tang , Zhengan Yao , Zanbo Zhang

Given a graph $G$, a source node $s$ and a target node $t$, the personalized PageRank (PPR) of $t$ with respect to $s$ is the probability that a random walk starting from $s$ terminates at $t$. An important variant of the PPR query is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Sibo Wang , Renchi Yang , Runhui Wang , Xiaokui Xiao , Zhewei Wei , Wenqing Lin , Yin Yang , Nan Tang

We introduce a set of techniques that allow for efficiently generating many independent random walks in the Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model with space per machine strongly sublinear in the number of vertices. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović , Krzysztof Onak , Piotr Sankowski

PageRank (PR) is a fundamental tool for assessing the relative importance of the nodes in a network. In this paper, we propose a measure, weighted PageRank (WPR), extended from the classical PR for weighted, directed networks with possible…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-18 Panpan Zhang , Tiandong Wang , Jun Yan

Personalized PageRank (PPR) is a popular node proximity metric in graph mining and network research. Given a graph G=(V,E) and a source node $s \in V$, a single-source PPR (SSPPR) query asks for the PPR value $\vpi(u)$ with respect to s,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Hanzhi Wang , Zhewei Wei , Junhao Gan , Ye Yuan , Xiaoyong Du , Ji-Rong Wen

Researchers have designed many algorithms to measure the distances between graph nodes, such as average hitting times of random walks, cosine distances from DeepWalk, personalized PageRank, etc. Successful although these algorithms are,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Enzhi Li , Zhengyi Le

Landing probabilities (LP) of random walks (RW) over graphs encode rich information regarding graph topology. Generalized PageRanks (GPR), which represent weighted sums of LPs of RWs, utilize the discriminative power of LP features to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Pan Li , Eli Chien , Olgica Milenkovic

Most methods for Personalized PageRank (PPR) precompute and store all accurate PPR vectors, and at query time, return the ones of interest directly. However, the storage and computation of all accurate PPR vectors can be prohibitive for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Qin Liu , Zhenguo Li , John C. S. Lui , Jiefeng Cheng

Personalized PageRank Vectors are widely used as fundamental graph-learning tools for detecting anomalous spammers, learning graph embeddings, and training graph neural networks. The well-known local FwdPush algorithm approximates PPVs and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zhen Chen , Xingzhi Guo , Baojian Zhou , Deqing Yang , Steven Skiena

Given a real-world graph, how can we measure relevance scores for ranking and link prediction? Random walk with restart (RWR) provides an excellent measure for this and has been applied to various applications such as friend recommendation,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Woojeong Jin , Jinhong Jung , U Kang

We study the Personalized PageRank (PPR) algorithm, a local spectral method for clustering, which extracts clusters using locally-biased random walks around a given seed node. In contrast to previous work, we adopt a classical statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Alden Green , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Ryan J. Tibshirani

Personalized PageRank (PPR) is a measure of the importance of a node from the perspective of another (we call these nodes the $\textit{target}$ and the $\textit{source}$, respectively). PPR has been used in many applications, such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Daniel Vial , Vijay Subramanian

The importance of a node in a directed graph can be measured by its PageRank. The PageRank of a node is used in a number of application contexts - including ranking websites - and can be interpreted as the average portion of time spent at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Balázs Csanád Csáji , Raphaël M. Jungers , Vincent D. Blondel

PageRank has numerous applications in information retrieval, reputation systems, machine learning, and graph partitioning.In this paper, we study PageRank in undirected random graphs with expansion property. The Chung-Lu random graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Arun Kadavankandy , Liudmila Ostroumova , Andrei Raigorodskii

In this work we introduce and study a nonlocal version of the PageRank. In our approach, the random walker explores the graph using longer excursions than just moving between neighboring nodes. As a result, the corresponding ranking of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Stefano Cipolla , Fabio Durastante , Francesco Tudisco

The bipartite graph is a ubiquitous data structure that can model the relationship between two entity types: for instance, users and items, queries and webpages. In this paper, we study the problem of ranking vertices of a bipartite graph,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Xiangnan He , Ming Gao , Min-Yen Kan , Dingxian Wang

Predicting links in complex networks has been one of the essential topics within the realm of data mining and science discovery over the past few years. This problem remains an attempt to identify future, deleted, and redundant links using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Kamal Berahmand , Elahe Nasiri , Saman Forouzandeh , Yuefeng Li