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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…
A commonly used technique for the higher-order PageRank problem is the power method that is computationally intractable for large-scale problems. The truncated power method proposed recently provides us with another idea to solve this…
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…
In this paper we present a new method that can accelerate the computation of the PageRank importance vector. Our method, called D-Iteration (DI), is based on the decomposition of the matrix-vector product that can be seen as a fluid…
Initially used to rank web pages, PageRank has now been applied in many fields. With the growing scale of graph, accelerating PageRank computing is urged and designing parallel algorithm is a feasible solution. In this paper, two parallel…
Google's PageRank has created a new synergy to information retrieval for a better ranking of Web pages. It ranks documents depending on the topology of the graphs and the weights of the nodes. PageRank has significantly advanced the field…
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…
There are several ideas being used today for Web information retrieval, and specifically in Web search engines. The PageRank algorithm is one of those that introduce a content-neutral ranking function over Web pages. This ranking is applied…
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…
Initially used to rank web pages, PageRank has now been applied in many fields. In general case, there are plenty of special vertices such as dangling vertices and unreferenced vertices in the graph. Existing PageRank algorithms usually…
PageRank is a fundamental link analysis algorithm that also functions as a key representative of the performance of Sparse Matrix-Vector (SpMV) multiplication. The traditional PageRank implementation generates fine granularity random memory…
In this paper we present new ideas to accelerate the computation of the eigenvector of the transition matrix associated to the PageRank algorithm. New ideas are based on the decomposition of the matrix-vector product that can be seen as a…
The effect of adjusting damping factor {\alpha}, from a small initial value {\alpha}0 to the final desired {\alpha}f value, upon then iterations needed for PageRank computation is observed. Adjustment of the damping factor is done in one or…
In this paper, we analyze the efficiency of Monte Carlo methods for incremental computation of PageRank, personalized PageRank, and similar random walk based methods (with focus on SALSA), on large-scale dynamically evolving social…
Many real-world problems rely on finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix. The power iteration algorithm is a simple method for determining the largest eigenvalue and associated eigenvector of a general matrix. This algorithm relies…
In this article we will present a graph partitioning algorithm which partitions a graph into two different types of components: the well-known `strongly connected components' as well as another type of components we call `connected acyclic…
The effect of adjusting damping factor {\alpha} and tolerance {\tau} on iterations needed for PageRank computation is studied here. Relative performance of PageRank computation with L1, L2, and L{\infty} norms used as convergence check, are…
We present new algorithms for Personalized PageRank estimation and Personalized PageRank search. First, for the problem of estimating Personalized PageRank (PPR) from a source distribution to a target node, we present a new bidirectional…
PageRank is a graph centrality metric that gives the importance of each node in a given graph. The PageRank algorithm provides important insights to understand the behavior of nodes through the connections they form with other nodes. It is…
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…