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Semi-supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods often rely on graphs to model data, prompting research on how theoretical properties of operators on graphs are leveraged in learning problems. While most of the existing literature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Amber Yuan , Jeff Calder , Braxton Osting

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

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

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

Local clustering aims to find a compact cluster near the given starting instances. This work focuses on graph local clustering, which has broad applications beyond graphs because of the internal connectivities within various modalities.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zihao Li , Dongqi Fu , Hengyu Liu , Jingrui He

The topology of the Internet has typically been measured by sampling traceroutes, which are roughly shortest paths from sources to destinations. The resulting measurements have been used to infer that the Internet's degree distribution is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore

We study the relation between PageRank and other parameters of information networks such as in-degree, out-degree, and the fraction of dangling nodes. We model this relation through a stochastic equation inspired by the original definition…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-03 Yana Volkovich , Nelly Litvak , Debora Donato

Google's PageRank method was developed to evaluate the importance of web-pages via their link structure. The mathematics of PageRank, however, are entirely general and apply to any graph or network in any domain. Thus, PageRank is now…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-22 David F. Gleich

Seeded PageRank is an important network analysis tool for identifying and studying regions nearby a given set of nodes, which are called seeds. The seeded PageRank vector is the stationary distribution of a random walk that randomly resets…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-23 David F. Gleich , Kyle Kloster , Huda Nassar

PageRank is a well-known centrality measure for the web used in search engines, representing the importance of each web page. In this paper, we follow the line of recent research on the development of distributed algorithms for computation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Atsushi Suzuki , Hideaki Ishii

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

During the last two decades, we easilly see that the World Wide Web's link structure is modeled as the directed graph. In this paper, we will model the World Wide Web's link structure as the directed hypergraph. Moreover, we will develop…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Loc Tran , Tho Quan , An Mai

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

In this paper some results about the controllability of spectral centrality in a complex network are presented. In particular, the inverse problem of designing an unweigthed graph with a prescribed centrality is considered, by showing that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-23 Esther Garcia , Miguel Romance

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

The "Local Ranking Problem" (LRP) is related to the computation of a centrality-like rank on a local graph, where the scores of the nodes could significantly differ from the ones computed on the global graph. Previous work has studied LRP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Michele Trevisiol , Luca Maria Aiello , Paolo Boldi , Roi Blanco

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

PageRank is a Web page ranking technique that has been a fundamental ingredient in the development and success of the Google search engine. The method is still one of the many signals that Google uses to determine which pages are most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-08-17 Massimo Franceschet

In this paper we analyze the PageRank of a complex network as a function of its personalization vector. By using this approach, a complete characterization of the existence and uniqueness of fixed points of PageRank of a graph is given in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-28 David Aleja , Julio Flores , Eva Primo , Daniel Rodríguez , Miguel Romance

Many complex networks are described by directed links; in such networks, a link represents, for example, the control of one node over the other node or unidirectional information flows. Some centrality measures are used to determine the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-24 Naoki Masuda , Yoji Kawamura , Hiroshi Kori