PYMK: Friend Recommendation at MySpace

Summary: Presents PYMK, MySpace's friend-recommendation algorithm (People You May Know) for social-graph-based link suggestions. Assesses accuracy and practical impact, highlighting deployment considerations and measured gains in a large-scale social network. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4374
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
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Overall Rank: 13,705 | 5.98%
DOI: 10.1145/1807167.1807276

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Authors

1. Michael Moricz (MySpace Inc.)
2. Yerbolat Dosbayev (MySpace Inc.)
3. Mikhail Berlyant (MySpace Inc.)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{moricz_sigmod10,
        title = {{PYMK: Friend Recommendation at MySpace}},
        author = {Moricz, Michael and Dosbayev, Yerbolat and Berlyant, Mikhail},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807276},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807276},
        year = {2010}
}

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