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PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks

Summary: Introduces meta path-based similarity for same-type objects in heterogeneous networks, capturing relation-specific semantics via PathSim rather than generic random walks. Accelerates top-k queries by partially materializing short meta paths and concatenating them online. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
10518
Venue
VLDB
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00014537965
Overall Rank
731 | 94.99%
DOI
10.14778/3402707.3402736

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BibTeX Citation

@article{sun_vldb11,
        title = {{PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks}},
        author = {Sun, Yizhou and Han, Jiawei and Yan, Xifeng and Yu, Philip S. and Wu, Tianyi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {992--1003},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402736},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402736},
        year = {2011}
}

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