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The concept of ranking aggregation plays a central role in preference analysis, and numerous algorithms for calculating median rankings, often originating in social choice theory, have been documented in the literature, offering theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Kerrian Le Caillec , Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

The majority of Semantic Web search engines retrieve information by focusing on the use of concepts and relations restricted to the query provided by the user. By trying to guess the implicit meaning between these concepts and relations,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-28 Manuel Rojas

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

Social networks have ensured the expanding disproportion between the face of WWW stored traditionally in search engine repositories and the actual ever changing face of Web. Exponential growth of web users and the ease with which they can…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-09 Pushpa R. Suri , Harmunish Taneja

Personalalized PageRank uses random walks to determine the importance or authority of nodes in a graph from the point of view of a given source node. Much past work has considered how to compute personalized PageRank from a given source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Peter Lofgren , Ashish Goel

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 traditional measure for node proximity on large graphs. For a pair of nodes $s$ and $t$, the PPR value $\pi_s(t)$ equals the probability that an $\alpha$-discounted random walk from $s$ terminates at $t$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Mingji Yang , Hanzhi Wang , Zhewei Wei , Sibo Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

PageRank has become a key element in the success of search engines, allowing to rank the most important hits in the top screen of results. One key aspect that distinguishes PageRank from other prestige measures such as in-degree is its…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Santo Fortunato , Marian Boguna , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer

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

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

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

In recent years, the PageRank algorithm has garnered significant attention due to its crucial role in search engine technologies and its applications across various scientific fields. It is well-known that the power method is a classical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Guangcong Meng , Yuehua Feng , Yongxin Dong

As the calculation of centrality in complex networks becomes increasingly vital across technological, biological, and social systems, precise and scalable ranking methods are essential for understanding these networks. This paper introduces…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Hao Ren , Jiaojiao Jiang

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

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

Reinforcement learning has gained wide popularity as a technique for simulation-driven approximate dynamic programming. A less known aspect is that the very reasons that make it effective in dynamic programming can also be leveraged for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Vivek S. Borkar , Adwaitvedant S. Mathkar

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

Heat kernel pagerank is a variation of Personalized PageRank given in an exponential formulation. In this work, we present a sublinear time algorithm for approximating the heat kernel pagerank of a graph. The algorithm works by simulating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Fan Chung , Olivia Simpson

Many complex systems can be described as multiplex networks in which the same nodes can interact with one another in different layers, thus forming a set of interacting and co-evolving networks. Examples of such multiplex systems are social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-11-12 Arda Halu , Raul J. Mondragon , Pietro Panzarasa , Ginestra Bianconi

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