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How to decompose a random walk (array) into its Markov Chain transition matrix?
The algorithm, PageRank, receives a Markov Chain transition matrix (page links from one to another.) Either by random walk, or more efficiently, eigenvectors, the stationary distribution of the Markov ...
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Explanation on Google’s PageRank is Webpages as Eigenvectors
Help understand what is the matrix A and the vector x discussed below.
Mathematics for Machine Learning Example 4.9
Google uses the eigenvector corresponding to the maximal eigenvalue of
a matrix A ...
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What are the conditions for a graph's adjacency matrix to not have a negative eigenvalue with magnitude>=1?
Say I have a (directed) graph $G$ with an adjacency matrix $A$. For the sake of the question, let's assume it's normalized column-wise (edge weights are normalized so the sum of out-edge weights per ...
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How to measure "cyclicity" of a directed weighted graph?
Say you have a weighted directed graph with (potentially) some cycles in it. You want to have some sort of a measure of how "cyclical" this graph is. The requirements are:
This measure C=0 on an ...
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Difference between $2^{nd}$ order random walk and personalized pagerank
I've been recently working with graph sampling, and I can't seem to find useful explanation of the following two aspects. On one side there are pagerank-based algorithms, which converge to a ...
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In personalized page rank, should the page rank vector be initialized uniformly?
In (normal) page rank, the (initial) page rank vector is usually initialized to the uniform distribution.
Should I do the same for personalized page rank? I wonder if I should initialize the page ...