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Personalized PageRank is an algorithm to classify the improtance of web pages on a user-dependent basis. We introduce two generalizations of Personalized PageRank with node-dependent restart. The first generalization is based on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Remco W. Van Der Hofstad , Marina Sokol

Given an undirected graph $G=(V, E)$, the Personalized PageRank (PPR) of $t\in V$ with respect to $s\in V$, denoted $\pi(s,t)$, is the probability that an $\alpha$-discounted random walk starting at $s$ terminates at $t$. We study the time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Christian Bertram , Mads Vestergaard Jensen

There has been a rising interest in graph neural networks (GNNs) for representation learning over the past few years. GNNs provide a general and efficient framework to learn from graph-structured data. However, GNNs typically only use the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Julie Choi

The significance of the PageRank algorithm in shaping the modern Internet cannot be overstated, and its Complex Network theory foundations continue to be a subject of research. In this article we carry out a systematic study of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-11 Gonzalo Contreras-Aso , Regino Criado , Miguel Romance

Regarding the analysis of Web communication, social and complex networks the fast finding of most influential nodes in a network graph constitutes an important research problem. We use two indices of the influence of those nodes, namely,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Natalia Markovich

PageRank (PR) is an algorithm originally developed by Google to evaluate the importance of web pages. Considering how deeply rooted Google's PR algorithm is to gathering relevant information or to the success of modern businesses, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-10 Seung-Woo Son , Claire Christensen , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

The PageRank algorithm enables to rank the nodes of a network through a specific eigenvector of the Google matrix, using a damping parameter $\alpha \in ]0,1[$. Using extensive numerical simulations of large web networks, with a special…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-11-04 K. M. Frahm , B. Georgeot , D. L. Shepelyansky

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

We characterize the tail behavior of the distribution of the PageRank of a uniformly chosen vertex in a directed preferential attachment graph and show that it decays as a power law with an explicit exponent that is described in terms of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Sayan Banerjee , Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

In this paper new results on personalized PageRank are shown. We consider directed graphs that may contain dangling nodes. The main result presented gives an analytical characterization of all the possible values of the personalized…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-07-13 Esther Garcia , Francisco Pedroche , Miguel Romance

The spectral radius of the adjacency matrix can impact both algorithmic efficiency as well as the stability of solutions to an underlying dynamical process. Although much research has considered the distribution of the spectral radius for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-01 David Burstein

Recently bipartite graphs have been widely used to represent the relationship two sets of items for information retrieval applications. The Web offers a wide range of data which can be represented by bipartite graphs, such us movies and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Antonia Korba

In a former paper the concept of Bipartite PageRank was introduced and a theorem on the limit of authority flowing between nodes for personalized PageRank has been generalized. In this paper we want to extend those results to multimodal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-08 M. A. Kłopotek , S. T. Wierzchoń , R. A. Kłopotek

The PageRank is a popularity measure designed by Google to rank Web pages. Experiments confirm that the PageRank obeys a `power law' with the same exponent as the In-Degree. This paper presents a novel mathematical model that explains this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. Litvak , W. R. W. Scheinhardt , Y. Volkovich

The PageRank algorithm is used to rank web pages by their importance. Since its development, the PageRank algorithm is a critical and fundamental part of search engines today. PageRank is a graph-based algorithm that ranks pages based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Christopher Sims

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

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

PageRank is a well-known algorithm whose robustness helps set a standard benchmark when processing graphs and analytical problems. The PageRank algorithm serves as a standard for many graph analytics and a foundation for extracting graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hemalatha Eedi , Sahith Karra , Sathya Peri , Neha Ranabothu , Rahul Utkoor

While PageRank has been extensively used to rank sport tournament participants (teams or individuals), its superiority over simpler ranking methods has been never clearly demonstrated. We use sports results from 18 major leagues to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Yuhao Zhou , Ruijie Wang , Yi-Cheng Zhang , An Zeng , Matúš Medo

The PageRank algorithm employed by Google quantifies the importance of each page by the link structure of the web. To reduce the computational burden the distributed randomized PageRank algorithms (DRPA) recently appeared in literature…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Wenxiao Zhao , Han-Fu Chen , Hai-Tao Fang