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We study the biased random walk process in random uncorrelated networks with arbitrary degree distributions. In our model, the bias is defined by the preferential transition probability, which, in recent years, has been commonly used to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak

Many real world person-person or person-product relationships can be modeled graphically. More specifically, bipartite graphs can be especially useful when modeling scenarios that involve two disjoint groups. As a result, many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Nathan Ma

Randomized parallel algorithms for many fundamental problems achieve optimal linear work in expectation, but upgrading this guarantee to hold with high probability (whp) remains a recurring theoretical challenge. In this paper, we address…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod

Ensuring fairness in algorithmic ranking systems is a critical challenge with significant societal implications for hiring, recommendations, web search, and data management. Standard methods for aggregating multiple preference orders into a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Diptarka Chakraborty , Arya Mazumdar , Barna Saha , Alvin Hong Yao Yan

In a former paper we simplified the proof of a theorem on personalized random walk that is fundamental to graph nodes clustering and generalized it to bipartite graphs for a specific case where the proobability of random jump was…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek , Sławomir T. Wierzchom , Robert A. Kłopotek , Elżbieta A. Kłopotek

PageRank is a ranking of the web pages that measures how often a given web page is visited by a random surfer on the web graph, for a simple model of web surfing. It seems realistic that PageRank may also have an influence on the behavior…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-05 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Laure Ninove

We present a semi-Markov model of random walk on complex networks in discrete and continuous-time scenario. In the general setting of the semi-Markov chains, the duration of stay at given node - the sojourn time - is random, and the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-20 Lasko Basnarkov

In the sports of soccer, hockey and basketball the most commonly used statistics for player performance assessment are divided into two categories: offensive statistics and defensive statistics. However, qualitative assessments of…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-04 Shael Brown

In this paper we consider the collaborative ranking setting: a pool of users each provides a small number of pairwise preferences between $d$ possible items; from these we need to predict preferences of the users for items they have not yet…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-17 Dohyung Park , Joe Neeman , Jin Zhang , Sujay Sanghavi , Inderjit S. Dhillon

The hippocampus appears to implement two core but highly distinct functions in the brain: long term memory retrieval and planning and spatial navigation. Naively, these functions appear very different algorithmically. In this short note, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Beren Millidge

In recent years, networks with higher-order interactions have emerged as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Comparing these higher-order systems remains however a challenge. Traditional similarity measures designed for pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-24 Cosimo Agostinelli , Marco Mancastroppa , Alain Barrat

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

We provide a deterministic $\tilde{O}(\log N)$-space algorithm for estimating random walk probabilities on undirected graphs, and more generally Eulerian directed graphs, to within inverse polynomial additive error…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-14 AmirMahdi Ahmadinejad , Jonathan Kelner , Jack Murtagh , John Peebles , Aaron Sidford , Salil Vadhan

We study the typical behavior of a generalized version of Google's PageRank algorithm on a large family of inhomogeneous random digraphs. This family includes as special cases directed versions of classical models such as the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Jiung Lee , Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

Hypergraph has been selected as a powerful candidate for characterizing higher-order networks and has received increasing attention in recent years. In this article, we study random walks with resetting on hypergraph by utilizing spectral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Fei Ma , Xincheng Hu , Haobin Shi , Wei Pan , Ping Wang

Networks and graphs provide a simple but effective model to a vast set of systems which building blocks interact throughout pairwise interactions. Unfortunately, such models fail to describe all those systems which building blocks interact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-21 Mauro Faccin

Pairwise re-ranking models predict which of two documents is more relevant to a query and then aggregate a final ranking from such preferences. This is often more effective than pointwise re-ranking models that directly predict a relevance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Lukas Gienapp , Maik Fröbe , Matthias Hagen , Martin Potthast

In the IoT era, information is more and more frequently picked up by connected smart sensors with increasing, though limited, storage, communication and computation abilities. Whether due to privacy constraints or to the structure of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Stephan Clémençon , Joseph Salmon

The quantization of the PageRank algorithm is a promising tool for a future quantum internet. Here we present a modification of the quantum PageRank introducing arbitrary phase rotations (APR) in the underlying Szegedy's quantum walk. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Sergio A. Ortega , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

SimRank is a similarity measure between vertices in a graph, which has become a fundamental technique in graph analytics. Recently, many algorithms have been proposed for efficient evaluation of SimRank similarities. However, the existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Rong Zhu , Zhaonian Zou , Jianzhong Li