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: 11816
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.4658632e-05
Overall Rank: 8,213 | 43.66%
DOI: 10.14778/3136610.3136612

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Authors

1. Yu Liu (Renmin University of China)
2. Bolong Zheng (Sun Yat-Sen University)
3. Xiaodong He (Renmin University of China)
4. Zhewei Wei (Renmin University of China)
5. Xiaokui Xiao (Nanyang Technological University)
6. Kai Zheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
7. Jiaheng Lu (University of Helsinki)

BibTeX Citation

@article{liu_vldb18,
        title = {{ProbeSim: Scalable Single-Source and Top-k SimRank Computations on Dynamic Graphs}},
        author = {Liu, Yu and Zheng, Bolong and He, Xiaodong and Wei, Zhewei and Xiao, Xiaokui and Zheng, Kai and Lu, Jiaheng},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {1},
        pages = {14--26},
        doi = {10.14778/3136610.3136612},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3136610.3136612},
        year = {2018}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,826	Realtime Index-Free Single Source SimRank Processing on Web-Scale Graphs	2020	VLDB	6.074674e-05
6,446	Exact Single-Source SimRank Computation on Large Graphs	2020	SIGMOD	5.8763523e-05
8,212	PRSim: Sublinear Time SimRank Computation on Large Power-Law Graphs	2019	SIGMOD	5.4658632e-05
9,314	DISK: A Distributed Framework for Single-Source SimRank with Accuracy Guarantee	2021	VLDB	5.289545e-05
9,471	Efficient and Accurate SimRank-based Similarity Joins: Experiments, Analysis, and Improvement	2024	VLDB	5.2634238e-05
11,383	ClipSim: A GPU-friendly Parallel Framework for Single-Source SimRank with Accuracy Guarantee	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,796	SimTab: Accuracy-Guaranteed SimRank Queries through Tighter Confidence Bounds and Multi-Armed Bandits	2020	VLDB	5.093636e-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
653	Accuracy Estimate and Optimization Techniques for SimRank Computation	2008	VLDB	0.00015302705
758	Simrank++: Query Rewriting through Link Analysis of the Click Graph	2008	VLDB	0.00014277369
1,365	Scalable Similarity Search for SimRank	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011017467
1,588	More is Simpler: Effectively and Efficiently Assessing Node-Pair Similarities Based on Hyperlinks	2014	VLDB	0.0001026895
1,812	Efficient SimRank-based Similarity Join Over Large Graphs	2013	VLDB	9.6948178e-05
2,291	Efficient Partial-Pairs SimRank Search on Large Networks	2015	VLDB	8.7973939e-05
4,061	Efficient Top-K SimRank-based Similarity Join	2015	VLDB	6.9319591e-05
4,216	An Efficient Similarity Search Framework for SimRank over Large Dynamic Graphs	2015	VLDB	6.8273894e-05
4,825	SLING: A Near-Optimal Index Structure for SimRank	2016	SIGMOD	6.4910166e-05
5,520	Walking in the Cloud: Parallel SimRank at Scale	2016	VLDB	6.1884239e-05
6,634	An Experimental Evaluation of SimRank-based Similarity Search Algorithms	2017	VLDB	5.8182573e-05

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