Efficient Personalized PageRank Computation: A Spanning Forests Sampling Based Approach

Summary: Introduces spanning-forests sampling for personalized PageRank via loop-erased alpha-random walks, grounded in a new matrix forest theorem. Alpha-insensitive, fast single-source and single-target PPR queries; outperforms prior methods with experiments on seven large real-world graphs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4f94c6ed9a3e2506
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.7963998e-05
Overall Rank: 6,403 | 56.96%
DOI: 10.1145/3514221.3526140

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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. Guoren Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liao_sigmod22,
        title = {{Efficient Personalized PageRank Computation: A Spanning Forests Sampling Based Approach}},
        author = {Liao, Meihao and Li, Rong-Hua and Dai, Qiangqiang and Wang, Guoren},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3514221.3526140},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3526140},
        year = {2022}
}

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6,289	QTCS: Efficient Query-Centered Temporal Community Search	2024	VLDB	5.8224604e-05
8,020	Efficient Resistance Distance Computation: the Power of Landmark-based Approaches	2023	SIGMOD	5.4061498e-05
8,226	Efficient Personalized PageRank Computation: The Power of Variance-Reduced Monte Carlo Approaches	2023	SIGMOD	5.3740319e-05
8,671	Enabling Window-Based Monotonic Graph Analytics with Reusable Transitional Results for Pattern-Consistent Queries	2024	VLDB	5.2917782e-05
9,220	One Index for All: Towards Efficient Personalized PageRank Computation for Every Damping Factor	2026	SIGMOD	5.2056825e-05
9,558	Efficient and Accurate PageRank Approximation on Large Graphs	2024	SIGMOD	5.1571823e-05
9,947	Efficient Index Maintenance for Effective Resistance Computation on Evolving Graphs	2025	SIGMOD	5.1038322e-05
10,263	BIRD: Efficient Approximation of Bidirectional Hidden Personalized PageRank	2024	VLDB	5.050482e-05
10,378	Near-Optimality for Single-Source Personalized PageRank	2026	PODS	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
1,368	Computing Personalized PageRank Quickly by Exploiting Graph Structures	2014	VLDB	0.0001090624
1,419	Fast and Exact Top-k Search for Random Walk with Restart	2012	VLDB	0.00010728945
1,798	BEAR: Block Elimination Approach for Random Walk with Restart on Large Graphs	2015	SIGMOD	9.616919e-05
1,860	Efficient Ad-hoc Search for Personalized PageRank	2013	SIGMOD	9.4876834e-05
2,102	BePI: Fast and Memory-Efficient Method for Billion-Scale Random Walk with Restart	2017	SIGMOD	9.0463758e-05
2,183	Unifying the Global and Local Approaches: An Efficient Power Iteration with Forward Push	2021	SIGMOD	8.8962182e-05
2,258	HubPPR: Effective Indexing for Approximate Personalized PageRank	2017	VLDB	8.7385422e-05
2,393	Incremental and Accuracy-Aware Personalized PageRank through Scheduled Approximation	2013	VLDB	8.5321273e-05
3,688	Parallel Local Graph Clustering	2016	VLDB	7.095356e-05
4,101	TopPPR: Top-k Personalized PageRank Queries with Precision Guarantees on Large Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	6.8073016e-05
5,859	Efficient Algorithms for Finding Approximate Heavy Hitters in Personalized PageRanks	2018	SIGMOD	5.9682458e-05
6,785	Indexed Fast Network Proximity Querying	2018	VLDB	5.6823069e-05

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