Walking in the Cloud: Parallel SimRank at Scale
Summary: CloudWalker decouples SimRank’s recursion via parallel offline linear-system indexing and Monte Carlo estimation, yielding linear time/space. The index enables constant-time single-pair and single-source queries, scaling to ClueWeb’s 1B nodes and 43B edges. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Zhenguo Li (Huawei)
- 2. Yixiang Fang (University of Hong Kong)
- 3. Qin Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- 4. Jiefeng Cheng (Huawei)
- 5. Reynold Cheng (University of Hong Kong)
- 6. John C.S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
BibTeX Citation
@article{li_vldb16,
title = {{Walking in the Cloud: Parallel SimRank at Scale}},
author = {Li, Zhenguo and Fang, Yixiang and Liu, Qin and Cheng, Jiefeng and Cheng, Reynold and Lui, John C.S.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '16},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
pages = {24--35},
doi = {10.14778/2850583.2850586},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2850583.2850586},
year = {2016}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,663 | Effective and Efficient Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks | 2020 | VLDB | 9.9441685e-05 |
| 3,875 | Cohesive Subgraph Search over Big Heterogeneous Information Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.9536357e-05 |
| 5,945 | Realtime Index-Free Single Source SimRank Processing on Web-Scale Graphs | 2020 | VLDB | 5.9384932e-05 |
| 6,581 | Exact Single-Source SimRank Computation on Large Graphs | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.7445028e-05 |
| 7,986 | ProbeSim: Scalable Single-Source and Top-k SimRank Computations on Dynamic Graphs | 2018 | VLDB | 5.4123815e-05 |
| 8,379 | PRSim: Sublinear Time SimRank Computation on Large Power-Law Graphs | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.3432239e-05 |
| 9,492 | DISK: A Distributed Framework for Single-Source SimRank with Accuracy Guarantee | 2021 | VLDB | 5.1708619e-05 |
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Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 666 | Accuracy Estimate and Optimization Techniques for SimRank Computation | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00014985082 |
| 1,400 | Scalable Similarity Search for SimRank | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00010776946 |
| 2,345 | Efficient Partial-Pairs SimRank Search on Large Networks | 2015 | VLDB | 8.6034897e-05 |
| 5,309 | On Link-based Similarity Join | 2011 | VLDB | 6.1865348e-05 |
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