Walking in the Cloud: Parallel SimRank at Scale

Summary: CloudWalker parallelizes SimRank with offline linear-system indexing and online constant-time queries from an index vector; Monte Carlo reduces time and space. Spark-based, 10-node deployment scales to ClueWeb (1B nodes, 43B edges): 110h offline, 64s single-pair, 188s single-source. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11317
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.2668617e-05
Overall Rank: 5,926 | 58.82%
DOI: -

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4,737	Cohesive Subgraph Search over Big Heterogeneous Information Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions	2021	SIGMOD	5.9529218e-05
6,149	Realtime Index-Free Single Source SimRank Processing on Web-Scale Graphs	2020	VLDB	5.1835655e-05
7,593	Exact Single-Source SimRank Computation on Large Graphs	2020	SIGMOD	4.6984572e-05
8,231	PRSim: Sublinear Time SimRank Computation on Large Power-Law Graphs	2019	SIGMOD	4.5489304e-05
8,232	ProbeSim: Scalable Single-Source and Top-k SimRank Computations on Dynamic Graphs	2018	VLDB	4.5489304e-05
9,159	DISK: A Distributed Framework for Single-Source SimRank with Accuracy Guarantee	2021	VLDB	4.380727e-05

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753	Accuracy Estimate and Optimization Techniques for SimRank Computation	2008	VLDB	0.00017113124
1,542	Scalable Similarity Search for SimRank	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011447877
2,875	Efficient Partial-Pairs SimRank Search on Large Networks	2015	VLDB	7.9744337e-05
4,992	On Link-based Similarity Join	2011	VLDB	5.7750116e-05

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