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Analysis of Large Graphs:

Link Analysis, PageRank
Mining of Massive Datasets
Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, Jeff Ullman
Stanford University
http://www.mmds.org
New Topic: Graph Data!

High dim. Graph Infinite Machine

Apps
data data data learning

Locality Filtering
PageRank, Recommen
sensitive data SVM
SimRank der systems
hashing streams

Community Web Decision Association

Clustering
Detection advertising Trees Rules

Dimensional Duplicate
Spam Queries on Perceptron,
ity document
Detection streams kNN
reduction detection

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Graph Data: Social Networks

Facebook social graph

4-degrees of separation [Backstrom-Boldi-Rosa-Ugander-Vigna, 2011]
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Graph Data: Media Networks

Connections between political blogs

Polarization of the network [Adamic-Glance, 2005]
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Graph Data: Information Nets

Citation networks and Maps of science

[Börner et al., 2012]
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Graph Data: Communication Nets

domain2

domain1

router

domain3

Internet
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Graph Data: Technological Networks

Seven Bridges of Königsberg

[Euler, 1735]
Return to the starting point by traveling each
link of the graph once and only once.

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Web as a Graph
 Web as a directed graph:
 Nodes: Webpages
 Edges: Hyperlinks
I teach a
class on
Networks. CS224W:
Classes are
in the
Gates
building Computer
Science
Department
at Stanford
Stanford
University

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Web as a Graph
 Web as a directed graph:
 Nodes: Webpages
 Edges: Hyperlinks
I teach a
class on
Networks. CS224W:
Classes are
in the
Gates
building Computer
Science
Department
at Stanford
Stanford
University

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Web as a Directed Graph

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Broad Question
 How to organize the Web?
 First try: Human curated
Web directories
 Yahoo, DMOZ, LookSmart
 Second try: Web Search
 Information Retrieval investigates:
Find relevant docs in a small
and trusted set
 Newspaper articles, Patents, etc.
 But: Web is huge, full of untrusted documents,
random things, web spam, etc.
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Web Search: 2 Challenges
2 challenges of web search:
 (1) Web contains many sources of information
Who to “trust”?
 Trick: Trustworthy pages may point to each other!
 (2) What is the “best” answer to query
“newspaper”?
 No single right answer
 Trick: Pages that actually know about newspapers
might all be pointing to many newspapers

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Ranking Nodes on the Graph
 All web pages are not equally “important”
www.joe-schmoe.com vs. www.stanford.edu

 There is large diversity

in the web-graph
node connectivity.
Let’s rank the pages by
the link structure!

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Link Analysis Algorithms
 We will cover the following Link Analysis
approaches for computing importances
of nodes in a graph:
 Page Rank
 Topic-Specific (Personalized) Page Rank
 Web Spam Detection Algorithms

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PageRank:
The “Flow” Formulation
Links as Votes
 Idea: Links as votes
 Page is more important if it has more links
 In-coming links? Out-going links?
 Think of in-links as votes:
 www.stanford.edu has 23,400 in-links
 www.joe-schmoe.com has 1 in-link

 Are all in-links are equal?

 Links from important pages count more
 Recursive question!

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Example: PageRank Scores

A
B
3.3 C
38.4
34.3

D
E F
3.9
8.1 3.9

1.6
1.6 1.6 1.6
1.6

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Simple Recursive Formulation
 Each link’s vote is proportional to the
importance of its source page
 If page j with importance rj has n out-links,
each link gets rj / n votes
 Page j’s own importance is the sum of the
votes on its in-links i k
ri/3 r /4
k

j rj/3
rj = ri/3+rk/4
rj/3 rj/3

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PageRank: The “Flow” Model
 A “vote” from an important The web in 1839

page is worth more y/2

 A page is important if it is
y
pointed to by other important
a/2
pages y/2
 Define a “rank” rj for page j m
a m
a/2
ri
rj   “Flow” equations:

i j di
ry = ry /2 + ra /2
ra = ry /2 + rm
rm = ra /2
… out-degree of node
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Solving the Flow Equations
Flow equations:
 3 equations, 3 unknowns, ry = ry /2 + ra /2

no constants ra = ry /2 + rm
rm = ra /2
 No unique solution
 All solutions equivalent modulo the scale factor
 Additional constraint forces uniqueness:

 Solution:
 Gaussian elimination method works for
small examples, but we need a better
method for large web-size graphs
 We need a new formulation!
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PageRank: Matrix Formulation
 Stochastic adjacency matrix
 Let page has out-links
 If , then else
 is a column stochastic matrix
 Columns sum to 1
 Rank vector : vector with an entry per page
 is the importance score of page
 The flow equations can be written
ri
rj  
i j di

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Example
ri
 Remember the flow equation: rj  
i j di
 Flow equation in the matrix form

 Suppose page i links to 3 pages, including j

i

j rj
. =
ri
1/3

M . r = r
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Eigenvector Formulation
 The flow equations can be written

 So the rank vector r is an eigenvector of the

stochastic web matrix M
 In fact, its first or principal eigenvector,
NOTE: x is an
with corresponding eigenvalue 1 eigenvector with
the corresponding
 Largest eigenvalue of M is 1 since M is eigenvalue λ if:

column stochastic (with non-negative entries)

 We know r is unit length and each column of M
sums to one, so

 We can now efficiently solve for r!

The method is called Power iteration
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Example: Flow Equations & M
y a m
y y ½ ½ 0
a ½ 0 1
a m 0 ½ 0
m
r = M∙r

ry = ry /2 + ra /2 y ½ ½ 0 y
ra = ry /2 + rm a = ½ 0 1 a
m 0 ½ 0 m
rm = ra /2

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Power Iteration Method
 Given a web graph with n nodes, where the
nodes are pages and edges are hyperlinks
 Power iteration: a simple iterative scheme
 Suppose there are N web pages (t )
ri
 Initialize: r(0) = [1/N,….,1/N]T 
( t 1)
rj
i j di
 Iterate: r(t+1) = M ∙ r(t)
di …. out-degree of node i
 Stop when |r(t+1) – r(t)|1 < 
|x|1 = 1≤i≤N|xi| is the L1 norm
Can use any other vector norm, e.g., Euclidean

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PageRank: How to solve?
y a m
 Power Iteration: y y ½ ½ 0
 Set /N a ½ 0 1
a m m 0 ½ 0
 1:
 2: ry = ry /2 + ra /2
 Goto 1 ra = ry /2 + rm
 Example: rm = ra /2

ry 1/3 1/3 5/12 9/24 6/15

ra = 1/3 3/6 1/3 11/24 … 6/15
rm 1/3 1/6 3/12 1/6 3/15

Iteration 0, 1, 2, …

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PageRank: How to solve?
y a m
 Power Iteration: y y ½ ½ 0
 Set /N a ½ 0 1
a m m 0 ½ 0
 1:
 2: ry = ry /2 + ra /2
 Goto 1 ra = ry /2 + rm
 Example: rm = ra /2

ry 1/3 1/3 5/12 9/24 6/15

ra = 1/3 3/6 1/3 11/24 … 6/15
rm 1/3 1/6 3/12 1/6 3/15

Iteration 0, 1, 2, …

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 Details!
Why Power Iteration works? (1)
 Power iteration:
A method for finding dominant eigenvector (the
vector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue)

 Claim:
Sequence approaches the dominant eigenvector
of

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 Details!
Why Power Iteration works? (2)
 Claim: Sequence approaches the dominant
eigenvector of
 Proof:
 Assume M has n linearly independent eigenvectors,
with corresponding eigenvalues , where
 Vectors form a basis and thus we can write:

 Repeated multiplication on both sides produces

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 Details!
Why Power Iteration works? (3)
 Claim: Sequence approaches the dominant
eigenvector of
 Proof (continued):
 Repeated multiplication on both sides produces

 Since then fractions

and so as (for all ).
 Thus:
 Note if then the method won’t converge

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Random Walk Interpretation
 Imagine a random web surfer: i1 i2 i3

 At any time , surfer is on some page

 At time , the surfer follows an j
ri
out-link from uniformly at random rj  
 Ends up on some page linked from i j d out (i)
 Process repeats indefinitely
 Let:
 … vector whose th coordinate is the
prob. that the surfer is at page at time
 So, is a probability distribution over pages

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The Stationary Distribution
i1 i2 i3
 Where is the surfer at time t+1?
 Follows a link uniformly at random
j
p(t  1)  M  p(t )
 Suppose the random walk reaches a state
then is stationary distribution of a random walk
 Our original rank vector satisfies
 So, is a stationary distribution for
the random walk

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Existence and Uniqueness
 A central result from the theory of random
walks (a.k.a. Markov processes):

For graphs that satisfy certain conditions,

the stationary distribution is unique and
eventually will be reached no matter what the
initial probability distribution at time t = 0

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PageRank:
The Google Formulation
PageRank: Three Questions
(t )
ri

( t 1)
rj
i j di
or
equivalently r  Mr
 Does this converge?

 Does it converge to what we want?

 Are results reasonable?

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Does this converge?

(t )
ri

( t 1)
a b rj
i j di
 Example:
ra 1 0 1 0
=
rb 0 1 0 1
Iteration 0, 1, 2, …

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Does it converge to what we want?

(t )
ri

( t 1)
a b rj
i j di
 Example:
ra 1 0 0 0
=
rb 0 1 0 0
Iteration 0, 1, 2, …

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PageRank: Problems
Dead end
2 problems:
 (1) Some pages are
dead ends (have no out-links)
 Random walk has “nowhere” to go to
 Such pages cause importance to “leak out” Spider
trap

 (2) Spider traps:

(all out-links are within the group)
 Random walked gets “stuck” in a trap
 And eventually spider traps absorb all importance
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Problem: Spider Traps
y a m
 Power Iteration: y y ½ ½ 0
 Set a ½ 0 0
a m m 0 ½ 1

 And iterate m is a spider trap ry = ry /2 + ra /2

ra = ry /2
 Example: rm = ra /2 + rm

ry 1/3 2/6 3/12 5/24 0

ra = 1/3 1/6 2/12 3/24 … 0
rm 1/3 3/6 7/12 16/24 1

Iteration 0, 1, 2, …
All the PageRank score gets “trapped” in node m.
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Solution: Teleports!
 The Google solution for spider traps:
At each
time step, the random surfer has two options
 With prob. , follow a link at random
 With prob. 1-, jump to some random page
 Common values for  are in the range 0.8 to 0.9
 Surfer will teleport out of spider trap
within a few time steps
y y

a m a m
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Problem: Dead Ends
y a m
 Power Iteration: y y ½ ½ 0
 Set a ½ 0 0
a m m 0 ½ 0

 And iterate ry = ry /2 + ra /2
ra = ry /2
 Example: rm = ra /2

ry 1/3 2/6 3/12 5/24 0

ra = 1/3 1/6 2/12 3/24 … 0
rm 1/3 1/6 1/12 2/24 0

Iteration 0, 1, 2, …

Here the PageRank “leaks” out since the matrix is not stochastic.
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Solution: Always Teleport!
 Teleports: Follow random teleport links with
probability 1.0 from dead-ends
 Adjust matrix accordingly

y y

a m a m
y a m y a m
y ½ ½ 0 y ½ ½ ⅓
a ½ 0 0 a ½ 0 ⅓
m 0 ½ 0 m 0 ½ ⅓

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Why Teleports Solve the Problem?
Why are dead-ends and spider traps a problem
and why do teleports solve the problem?
 Spider-traps are not a problem, but with traps
PageRank scores are not what we want
 Solution: Never get stuck in a spider trap by
teleporting out of it in a finite number of steps
 Dead-ends are a problem
 The matrix is not column stochastic so our initial
assumptions are not met
 Solution: Make matrix column stochastic by always
teleporting when there is nowhere else to go
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Solution: Random Teleports
 Google’s solution that does it all:
At each step, random surfer has two options:
 With probability , follow a link at random
 With probability 1-, jump to some random page

 PageRank equation [Brin-Page, 98]

di … out-degree
of node i

This formulation assumes that has no dead ends. We can either

preprocess matrix to remove all dead ends or explicitly follow random
teleport links with probability 1.0 from dead-ends.
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The Google Matrix
 PageRank equation [Brin-Page, ‘98]

 The Google Matrix A:

[1/N]NxN…N by N matrix
 We have a recursive problem: where all entries are 1/N

And the Power method still works!

 What is  ?
 In practice  =0.8,0.9 (make 5 steps on avg., jump)

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 Random Teleports ( = 0.8)
M [1/N]NxN
7/15
y 1/2 1/2 0 1/3 1/3 1/3
0.8 1/2 0 0 + 0.2 1/3 1/3 1/3
0 1/2 1 1/3 1/3 1/3
1/
5
7/1

1
5

5
7/1

1/

y 7/15 7/15 1/15

15

13/15
a 7/15 1/15 1/15
7/15
a m 1/15 7/15 13/15
1/15
m
1/
15 A

y 1/3 0.33 0.24 0.26 7/33

a = 1/3 0.20 0.20 0.18 ... 5/33
m 1/3 0.46 0.52 0.56 21/33

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How do we actually compute
the PageRank?
Computing Page Rank
 Key step is matrix-vector multiplication
 rnew = A ∙ rold
 Easy if we have enough main memory to
hold A, rold, rnew
 Say N = 1 billion pages
A = ∙M + (1-) [1/N]NxN
 We need 4 bytes for ½ ½ 0 1/3 1/3 1/3
each entry (say) A = 0.8 ½ 0 0 +0.2 1/3 1/3 1/3
0 ½ 1 1/3 1/3 1/3
 2 billion entries for
vectors, approx 8GB 7/15 7/15 1/15
 Matrix A has N2 entries = 7/15 1/15 1/15
 1018 is a large number! 1/15 7/15 13/15
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Matrix Formulation
 Suppose there are N pages
 Consider page i, with d out-links
i
 We have M = 1/|di| when i → j
ji
and Mji = 0 otherwise
 The random teleport is equivalent to:
 Adding a teleport link from i to every other page
and setting transition probability to (1-)/N
 Reducing the probability of following each
out-link from 1/|di| to /|di|
 Equivalent: Tax each page a fraction (1-) of its
score and redistribute evenly
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 Rearranging the Equation
, where

since
 So we get:

Note: Here we assumed M

has no dead-ends
[x]N … a vector of length N with all entries x
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Sparse Matrix Formulation
 We just rearranged the PageRank equation

 where [(1-)/N]N is a vector with all N entries (1-)/N

 M is a sparse matrix! (with no dead-ends)

 10 links per node, approx 10N entries
 So in each iteration, we need to:
 Compute rnew =  M ∙ rold
 Add a constant value (1-)/N to each entry in rnew
 Note if M contains dead-ends then and
we also have to renormalize rnew so that it sums to 1
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PageRank: The Complete Algorithm

 Input: Graph and parameter

 Directed graph (can have spider traps and dead
ends)
 Parameter
 Output: PageRank vector
 Set:
 repeat until convergence:

if in-degree of is 0where:
 Now re-insert the leaked PageRank:
If the graph has no dead-ends then the amount of leaked PageRank is 1-β. But since we have dead-ends
the amount of leaked PageRank may be larger. We have to explicitly account for it by computing S.
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Sparse Matrix Encoding
 Encode sparse matrix using only nonzero
entries
 Space proportional roughly to number of links
 Say 10N, or 4*10*1 billion = 40GB
 Still won’t fit in memory, but will fit on disk
source
node degree destination nodes
0 3 1, 5, 7
1 5 17, 64, 113, 117, 245
2 2 13, 23

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Basic Algorithm: Update Step
 Assume enough RAM to fit rnew into memory
 Store rold and matrix M on disk
 1 step of power-iteration is:
Initialize all entries of rnew = (1-) / N
For each page i (of out-degree di):
Read into memory: i, di, dest1, …, destd , rold(i) i

For j = 1…di
rnew(destj) +=  rold(i) / di
0 rnew source degree destination rold 0
1 0 3 1, 5, 6 1
2 2
1 4 17, 64, 113, 117 3
3
4 2 2 13, 23 4
5 5
6 6
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Analysis
 Assume enough RAM to fit rnew into memory
 Store rold and matrix M on disk
 In each iteration, we have to:
 Read rold and M
 Write rnew back to disk
 Cost per iteration of Power method:
= 2|r| + |M|

 Question:
 What if we could not even fit rnew in memory?

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Block-based Update Algorithm

rnew src degree destination rold

0 0 4 0
0, 1, 3, 5
1 1
1 2 0, 5 2
2 2 2 3, 4 3
4
3
M 5
4
5

 Break rnew into k blocks that fit in memory

 Scan M and rold once for each block
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Analysis of Block Update
 Similar to nested-loop join in databases
 Break rnew into k blocks that fit in memory
 Scan M and rold once for each block
 Total cost:
 k scans of M and rold
 Cost per iteration of Power method:
k(|M| + |r|) + |r| = k|M| + (k+1)|r|
 Can we do better?
 Hint: M is much bigger than r (approx 10-20x), so
we must avoid reading it k times per iteration

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Block-Stripe Update Algorithm
src degree destination
r new
0 4 0, 1
0
1
1 3 0 rold
2 2 0
1 1
2
2 0 4 3 3
4
3 2 2 3 5

0 4 5
4 1 3 5
5
2 2 4
Break M into stripes! Each stripe contains only
destination nodes in the corresponding block of rnew
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Block-Stripe Analysis
 Break M into stripes
 Each stripe contains only destination nodes
in the corresponding block of rnew
 Some additional overhead per stripe
 But it is usually worth it
 Cost per iteration of Power method:
=|M|(1+) + (k+1)|r|

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Some Problems with Page Rank
 Measures generic popularity of a page
 Biased against topic-specific authorities
 Solution: Topic-Specific PageRank (next)
 Uses a single measure of importance
 Other models of importance
 Solution: Hubs-and-Authorities
 Susceptible to Link spam
 Artificial link topographies created in order to
boost page rank
 Solution: TrustRank
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