Distributed PageRank Computation Based on Iterative Aggregation-Disaggregation Methods
Distributed PageRank Computation Based on Iterative Aggregation-Disaggregation Methods. Yangbo Zhu, Shaozhi Ye and Xing Li Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ACM CIKM 2005, Bremen. Outline. Quick Review of PageRank Distributed PageRank Computation Motivation Basic Idea Algorithm
Distributed PageRank Computation Based on Iterative Aggregation-Disaggregation Methods
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Distributed PageRank ComputationBased on Iterative Aggregation-Disaggregation Methods Yangbo Zhu, Shaozhi Ye and Xing Li Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ACM CIKM 2005, Bremen
Outline • Quick Review of PageRank • Distributed PageRank Computation • Motivation • Basic Idea • Algorithm • Experiments • Conclusion and Future Work
PageRank - Background Ranking Web pages • Content-based methods • Link-based methods • PageRank [Page & Brin, 1998] • HITS [Kleinberg, 1998] • SALSA [Lempel & Moran, 2000]
PageRank - Intuition • Page A points to B means that the author of A recommends B. • A page is of high quality if it is • referred to by many other pages • referred to by pages of high quality
PageRank - Model • Random Surfer - Markov Chain
PageRank - Algorithm • Power method
Outline • Quick Review of PageRank • Distributed PageRank Computation • Motivation • Basic Idea • Algorithm • Experiments • Conclusion and Future Work
Motivation • Compass search engine confederation
Basic Idea • Divide and conquer • Make use of the natural block structure of web graphs
DPC Algorithm • Step 1 - Initialization Local nodes compute local PageRank vectors.
DPC Algorithm (cont.) • Step 2 - Aggregation Central node computes the NodeRank vector.
DPC Algorithm (cont.) • Step 3 - Disaggregation Local nodes compute extended local PageRank vectors. X: External nodes
DPC Algorithm (cont.) • Step 4 - Central node computes the L1 distance between current global PageRank vector and previous one.
Advantages • DPC mainly consists of standard PageRank computation. • Small matrices fit into main memory. • Low communication overhead.
Outline • Quick Review of PageRank • Distributed PageRank Computation • Motivation • Basic Idea • Algorithm • Experiments • Conclusion and Future Work
Experimental Setup • Simulation on a single Linux box. • Group web pages by sites. • For comparison • Classic power method • LPR-Ref-2 algorithm in [Wang, VLDB 2004]
Data Sets • ST01/03 - crawled in 2001/2003 by Stanford WebBase Project • CN04 - crawled in 2004 from web sites in China.
Evaluation Metrics • L1 distance • Kendall's τ-distance if page i and j are in different order in the two ranking lists.
Accuracy of the First Iteration • L1 • Kendall
Convergence Rate Number of iteration for convergence ( )
Outline • Quick Review of PageRank • Distributed PageRank Computation • Experiments • Conclusion and Future Work
Conclusion • A distributed PageRank computation algorithm based on iterative aggregation-disaggregation (IAD) methods with Block Jacobi smoothing. • Experiments on real web graphs show that DPC outperforms LPR-Ref-2[Wang, VLDB'04], and converges 5~7 times faster than Power method.
Future Work • Implement DPC in distributed system. Integrate with Compass search engine confederation. • How to update PageRank vectors efficiently within DPC framework?
IAD Method - Notations • Aggregation matrix(n×N) • Disaggregation matrix(N×n)
DPC -Convergence Analysis • The global convergence of IAD method is still an open problem. • The difficulty partly comes from that the disaggregation step is non-linear. • The paper proves the global convergence of Block Jacobi method in PageRank scenario when n > 2.
Experiments - Basic Facts • Distribution over number of pages hosted by sites of different size • Distribution over size of sites
Experiments - Communication Overhead Pos(•) - Number of positive elements L/U - Block strictly lower/upper triangular part of P Power LPR-Ref-2 / DPC