Title
Personalized PageRank to a Target Node, Revisited
Abstract
Personalized PageRank (PPR) is a widely used node proximity measure in graph mining and network analysis. Given a source node s and a target node t, the PPR value π(s,t) represents the probability that a random walk from s terminates at t, and thus indicates the bidirectional importance between s and t. The majority of the existing work focuses on the single-source queries, which asks for the PPR value of a given source node s and every node t ∈ V. However, the single-source query only reflects the importance of each node t with respect to s. In this paper, we consider the single-target PPR query, which measures the opposite direction of importance for PPR. Given a target node t, the single-target PPR query asks for the PPR value of every node $s\in V$ to a given target node t. We propose RBS, a novel algorithm that answers approximate single-target queries with optimal computational complexity. We show that RBS improves three concrete applications: heavy hitters PPR query, single-source SimRank computation, and scalable graph neural networks. We conduct experiments to demonstrate that RBS outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of both efficiency and precision on real-world benchmark datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3394486.3403108
KDD '20: The 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Virtual Event CA USA July, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-7998-4
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
48
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wang Hanzhi142.10
Zhewei Wei221520.07
Junhao Gan31216.63
Sibo Wang421718.27
Zengfeng Huang513613.65