Efficient and Accurate SimRank-based Similarity Joins: Experiments, Analysis, and Improvement

Summary: Analyzes SimRank similarity-join methods and gives new theoretical results exposing scalability/accuracy gaps. Proposes approximation‑guaranteed threshold/top‑k frameworks and an efficient randomized local‑push all‑pairs algorithm with complexity bounds and strong empirical gains. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13739
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.3556432e-05
Overall Rank: 9,321 | 35.16%
DOI: 10.14778/3636218.3636219

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,027	BIRD: Efficient Approximation of Bidirectional Hidden Personalized PageRank	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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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
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
4,922	READS: A Random Walk Approach for Efficient and Accurate Dynamic SimRank	2017	VLDB	5.8233726e-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
6,205	Realtime Index-Free Single Source SimRank Processing on Web-Scale Graphs	2020	VLDB	5.1583493e-05
7,230	ProbeSim: Scalable Single-Source and Top-k SimRank Computations on Dynamic Graphs	2018	VLDB	4.7948717e-05
11,601	SimTab: Accuracy-Guaranteed SimRank Queries through Tighter Confidence Bounds and Multi-Armed Bandits	2020	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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