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The \emph{Single-Source Personalized PageRank} (SSPPR) query is central to graph OLAP, measuring the probability $\pi(s,t)$ that an $\alpha$-decay random walk from node $s$ terminates at $t$. Despite decades of research, a significant gap…
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Fast distributed algorithms that output a feasible solution for constraint satisfaction problems, such as maximal independent sets, have been heavily studied. There has been much less research on distributed sampling problems, where one…
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The rise of big data systems has created a need for benchmarks to measure and compare the capabilities of these systems. Big data benchmarks present unique scalability challenges. The supercomputing community has wrestled with these…
This paper is concerned with distributed computation of several commonly used centrality measures in complex networks. In particular, we propose deterministic algorithms, which converge in finite time, for the distributed computation of the…
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