ProbeSim: Scalable Single-Source and Top-k SimRank Computations on Dynamic Graphs

Summary: ProbeSim: indexfree single-source/top-k SimRank on dynamic graphs with absolute-error guarantees, enabling real-time queries. Relying on non-indexing optimizations, it delivers strong efficiency on billion-edge benchmarks with pooling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11628
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 4.7948717e-05
Overall Rank: 7,230 | 49.71%
DOI: 10.14778/3136610.3136612

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Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,205	Realtime Index-Free Single Source SimRank Processing on Web-Scale Graphs	2020	VLDB	5.1583493e-05
7,590	Exact Single-Source SimRank Computation on Large Graphs	2020	SIGMOD	4.7029681e-05
8,236	PRSim: Sublinear Time SimRank Computation on Large Power-Law Graphs	2019	SIGMOD	4.553296e-05
9,159	DISK: A Distributed Framework for Single-Source SimRank with Accuracy Guarantee	2021	VLDB	4.3849295e-05
9,321	Efficient and Accurate SimRank-based Similarity Joins: Experiments, Analysis, and Improvement	2024	VLDB	4.3556432e-05
11,177	ClipSim: A GPU-friendly Parallel Framework for Single-Source SimRank with Accuracy Guarantee	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,601	SimTab: Accuracy-Guaranteed SimRank Queries through Tighter Confidence Bounds and Multi-Armed Bandits	2020	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
756	Accuracy Estimate and Optimization Techniques for SimRank Computation	2008	VLDB	0.00017088023
917	Simrank++: Query Rewriting through Link Analysis of the Click Graph	2008	VLDB	0.00015370124
1,539	Scalable Similarity Search for SimRank	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011460415
1,903	More is Simpler: Effectively and Efficiently Assessing Node-Pair Similarities Based on Hyperlinks	2014	VLDB	0.00010155777
2,117	Efficient SimRank-based Similarity Join Over Large Graphs	2013	VLDB	9.5155578e-05
2,885	Efficient Partial-Pairs SimRank Search on Large Networks	2015	VLDB	7.9613842e-05
4,791	An Efficient Similarity Search Framework for SimRank over Large Dynamic Graphs	2015	VLDB	5.9188595e-05
4,976	Efficient Top-K SimRank-based Similarity Join	2015	VLDB	5.7882361e-05
5,350	SLING: A Near-Optimal Index Structure for SimRank	2016	SIGMOD	5.553662e-05
5,899	Walking in the Cloud: Parallel SimRank at Scale	2016	VLDB	5.2824488e-05
6,789	An Experimental Evaluation of SimRank-based Similarity Search Algorithms	2017	VLDB	4.9251746e-05

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