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In this article we will look at the PageRank algorithm used as part of the ranking process of different Internet pages in search engines by for example Google. This article has its main focus in the understanding of the behavior of PageRank…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Christopher Engström , Sergei Silvestrov

Rank 1 inhomogeneous random graphs are a natural generalization of Erd\H{o}s R\'enyi random graphs. In this generalization each node is given a weight. Then the probability that an edge is present depends on the product of the weights of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Othmane Safsafi

Node influence metrics have been applied to many applications, including ranking web pages on internet, or locations on spatial networks. PageRank is a popular and effective algorithm for estimating node influence. However, conventional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Qiwei Ma , Zhaoya Gong

In this paper, we consider a problem of learning supervised PageRank models, which can account for some properties not considered by classical approaches such as the classical PageRank algorithm. Due to huge hidden dimension of the…

After the phenomenal success of the PageRank algorithm, many researchers have extended the PageRank approach to ranking graphs with richer structures beside the simple linkage structure. In some scenarios we have to deal with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Gianna M. Del Corso , Francesco Romani

In the search engine of Google, the PageRank algorithm plays a crucial role in ranking the search results. The algorithm quantifies the importance of each web page based on the link structure of the web. We first provide an overview of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo

Over the last decade, PageRank has gained importance in a wide range of applications and domains, ever since it first proved to be effective in determining node importance in large graphs (and was a pioneering idea behind Google's search…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Atish Das Sarma , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan , Eli Upfal

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

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

PageRank is a widespread model for analysing the relative relevance of nodes within large graphs arising in several applications. In the current paper, we present a cost-effective Hessenberg-type method built upon the Hessenberg process for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Xian-Ming Gu , Siu-Long Lei , Ke Zhang , Zhao-Li Shen , Chun Wen , Bruno Carpentieri

HodgeRank generalizes ranking algorithms, e.g. Google PageRank, to rank alternatives based on real-world (often incomplete) data using graphs and discrete exterior calculus. It analyzes multipartite interactions on high-dimensional networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Caesnan M. G. Leditto , Angus Southwell , Behnam Tonekaboni , Muhammad Usman , Kavan Modi

Google employs PageRank to rank web pages, determining the order in which search results are presented to users based on their queries. PageRank is primarily utilized for directed networks, although there are instances where it is also…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-26 Krishanu Deyasi

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

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

We perform a massive evaluation of neural networks with architectures corresponding to random graphs of various types. We investigate various structural and numerical properties of the graphs in relation to neural network test accuracy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Romuald A. Janik , Aleksandra Nowak

How large a fraction of a graph must one explore to rank a small set of nodes according to their PageRank scores? We show that the answer is quite nuanced, and depends crucially on the interplay between the correctness guarantees one…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Marco Bressan , Enoch Peserico , Luca Pretto

We analyze dynamic random network models where younger vertices connect to older ones with probabilities proportional to their degrees as well as a propensity kernel governed by their attribute types. Using stochastic approximation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Nelson Antunes , Sayan Banerjee , Shankar Bhamidi , Vladas Pipiras

We study convergence properties of a randomized consensus algorithm over a graph with both attractive and repulsive links. At each time instant, a node is randomly selected to interact with a random neighbor. Depending on if the link…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Guodong Shi , Alexandre Proutiere , Mikael Johansson , Karl H. Johansson

Many real-world networks are intrinsically directed. Such networks include activation of genes, hyperlinks on the internet, and the network of followers on Twitter among many others. The challenge, however, is to create a network model that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jesse Michel , Sushruth Reddy , Rikhav Shah , Sandeep Silwal , Ramis Movassagh