Efficient Personalized PageRank Computation: The Power of Variance-Reduced Monte Carlo Approaches

Summary: Two variance-reduction techniques for Personalized PageRank: power-iteration variance reduction and progressive sampling. Integrates these with random-walk and spanning-forest Monte Carlo PPR to achieve higher accuracy at equal or lower runtime than state-of-the-art bidirectional algorithms, leveraging historical sampling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6725
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.4949527e-05
Overall Rank: 8,062 | 44.69%
DOI: 10.1145/3589305

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Authors

1. Meihao Liao (Beijing Institute of Technology)
2. Rong-Hua Li (Beijing Institute of Technology)
3. Qiangqiang Dai (Beijing Institute of Technology)
4. Hongyang Chen (Zhejiang Lab)
5. Hongchao Qin (Beijing Institute of Technology)
6. Guoren Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liao_sigmod23,
        title = {{Efficient Personalized PageRank Computation: The Power of Variance-Reduced Monte Carlo Approaches}},
        author = {Liao, Meihao and Li, Rong-Hua and Dai, Qiangqiang and Chen, Hongyang and Qin, Hongchao and Wang, Guoren},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3589305},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589305},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,911	Efficient and Provable Effective Resistance Computation on Large Graphs: an Index-based Approach	2024	SIGMOD	5.3483178e-05
9,046	One Index for All: Towards Efficient Personalized PageRank Computation for Every Damping Factor	2026	SIGMOD	5.3251649e-05
10,161	Near-Optimality for Single-Source Personalized PageRank	2026	PODS	5.093636e-05
11,237	BIRD: Efficient Approximation of Bidirectional Hidden Personalized PageRank	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,339	Computing Personalized PageRank Quickly by Exploiting Graph Structures	2014	VLDB	0.00011112799
1,414	Fast and Exact Top-k Search for Random Walk with Restart	2012	VLDB	0.00010848387
1,769	BEAR: Block Elimination Approach for Random Walk with Restart on Large Graphs	2015	SIGMOD	9.7969398e-05
1,838	Efficient Ad-hoc Search for Personalized PageRank	2013	SIGMOD	9.6436348e-05
2,073	BePI: Fast and Memory-Efficient Method for Billion-Scale Random Walk with Restart	2017	SIGMOD	9.2209912e-05
2,173	Unifying the Global and Local Approaches: An Efficient Power Iteration with Forward Push	2021	SIGMOD	9.0375634e-05
2,225	HubPPR: Effective Indexing for Approximate Personalized PageRank	2017	VLDB	8.9183159e-05
2,362	Incremental and Accuracy-Aware Personalized PageRank through Scheduled Approximation	2013	VLDB	8.6889619e-05
3,315	Distributed Algorithms on Exact Personalized PageRank	2017	SIGMOD	7.5274958e-05
3,616	Parallel Local Graph Clustering	2016	VLDB	7.2559471e-05
3,892	Massively Parallel Algorithms for Personalized PageRank	2021	VLDB	7.0430255e-05
4,024	TopPPR: Top-k Personalized PageRank Queries with Precision Guarantees on Large Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	6.9479974e-05
5,250	Parallel Personalized PageRank on Dynamic Graphs	2018	VLDB	6.2992176e-05
5,741	Efficient Algorithms for Finding Approximate Heavy Hitters in Personalized PageRanks	2018	SIGMOD	6.1029326e-05
6,284	Efficient Personalized PageRank Computation: A Spanning Forests Sampling Based Approach	2022	SIGMOD	5.927015e-05
6,655	Indexed Fast Network Proximity Querying	2018	VLDB	5.8125709e-05

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