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AFrameworkforWebPageRankPredictionElliVoudigari1,JohnPavlopoulos1,andMichalisVazirgiannis1,2,1DepartmentofInformatics,AthensUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness,Greeceelliv@aueb.
gr,annis.
pavlo@gmail.
com,mvazirg@aueb.
gr2InstitutTelecom,EcoledeTelecomParisTech,DepartementInformatiqueetReseaux,Paris,FranceAbstract.
WeproposeaframeworkforpredictingtherankingpositionofaWebpagebasedonpreviousrankings.
Assumingasetofsuccessivetop-krankings,welearnpredictorsbasedondierentmethodologies.
Thepredictionqualityisquantiedasthesimilaritybetweenthepre-dictedandtheactualrankings.
Extensiveexperimentswereperformedonrealworldlargescaledatasetsforglobalandquery-basedtop-krank-ings,usingavarietyofexistingsimilaritymeasuresforcomparingtop-krankedlists,includinganovelandmorestrictmeasureintroducedinthispaper.
Thepredictionsarehighlyaccurateandrobustforallexperimen-talsetupsandsimilaritymeasures.
Keywords:RankPrediction,DataMining,WebMining,ArticialIntelligence.
1IntroductionTheWorldWideWebisahighlydynamicstructurecontinuouslychanging,asWebpagesandhyperlinksarecreated,deletedormodied.
Rankingoftheresultsisacornerstoneprocessenablinguserstoeectivelyretrieverelevantandimportantinformation.
GiventhehugesizeoftheWebgraph,computingrankingsofWebpagesrequiresawesomeresources-computationsonmatriceswhosesizeisoftheorderofWebsize(109nodes).
Ontheotherhandtheowneroftheindividualwebpagecanseeitsrankingonlyinthecaseofthewebgraphbysubmittingqueriestotheownerofthegraph(i.
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asearchengine).
Givenaseriesoftime-orderedrankingsofthenodesofagraphwhereeachbearsitsrankingforeachtimestamp,wedeveloplearn-ingmechanismsthatenablepredictionsofthenodesrankinginfuturetimes.
Thepredictionsrequireonlylocalfeatureknowledgewhilenoglobaldataarenecessary.
Specically,anindividualnodecanpredictitsrankingonlyknowingthevaluesofitsownranking.
Insuchacasethenodecouldplanactionsforoptimizingitsrankinginfuture.
InthispaperwepresentanintegratedeortforaframeworktowardsWebpagerankpredictionconsideringdierentlearningalgorithms.
WeconsiderPartiallysupportedbytheDIGITEOChairgrantLEVETONEinFranceandtheResearchCentreoftheAthensUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness,Greece.
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cIFIPInternationalFederationforInformationProcessing2011AFrameworkforWebPageRankPrediction241i)variableorderMarkovModels(MMs),ii)regressionmodelsandiii)anEMbasedapproachwithBayesianlearning.
ThenalpurposeistorepresentthetrendsandpredictfuturerankingsofWebpages.
Allthemodelsarelearnedfromtimeseriesdatasetswhereeachtrainingsetcorrespondstopre-processedrankvaluesofWebpagesobservedovertime.
Forallmethods,predictionqualityisevaluatedbasedonthesimilaritybe-tweenthepredictedandactualrankedlists,whilewefocusonthetop-kelementsoftheWebpagerankedlists,astoppagesareusuallymoreimportantinWebsearch.
Preliminaryworkonthistopicwaspresentedin[13]and[15].
Thecurrentworksignicantlydiersandadvancespreviousworksoftheauthorsinthefollowingways:a)Renedandcarefulre-engineeringoftheMMs'parameterlearningpro-cedurebyusingcrossvalidation,b)Integrationandelaborationoftheresultsof[15]inordertovalidatetheperformancecomparisonbetweenregression(boostedwithclustering)andMMpredictors,inlargescalerealworlddatasets,c)Namelyweadopt:LinearRegression,random1st/2nd/3rdorderMarkovmodelsprovingtherobustnessofthemodel,d)Anewtop-klistsimilaritymeasure(RSim)isintroducedandusedfortheevaluationofpredictorsandmoreimportantly,e)Additional,extensiveandrobustexperimentstookplaceusingquerybasedontop-klistsfromYahoo!
andGoogleSearchengine.
2RelatedWorkTherankingofqueryresultsinaWebsearch-engineisanimportantproblemandhasattractedsignicantattentionintheresearchcommunity.
TheproblemofpredictingPageRankispartlyaddressedin[9].
ItfocusesonWebpageclassicationbasedonURLfeatures.
Basedonthis,theauthorsperformexperimentstryingtomakePageRankpredictionsusingtheextractedfeatures.
Forthispurpose,theyuselinearregression;however,thecomplexityofthisapproachgrowslinearlyinproportiontothenumberoffeatures.
TheexperimentalresultsshowthatPageRankpredictionbasedonURLfeaturesdoesnotperformverywell,probablybecauseeventhoughtheycorrelateverywellwiththesubjectofpages,theydonotinuencepage'sauthorityinthesameway.
Arecentapproachtowardspagerankingpredictionispresentedin[13]gener-atingMarkovModelsfromhistoricalrankedlistsandusingthemforpredictions.
AnapproachthataimsatapproximatingPageRankvalueswithouttheneedofperformingthecomputationsovertheentiregraphis[6].
TheauthorsproposeanalgorithmtoincrementallycomputeapproximationstoPageRank,basedonevolutionofthelinkstructureofWebgraph(asetoflinkchanges).
Theirexper-imentsdemonstratethatthealgorithmperformswellbothinspeedandqualityandisrobusttovarioustypesoflinkmodications.
However,thisrequirescon-tinuousmonitoringoftheWebgraphinordertotrackanylinkmodications.
TherehasalsobeenworkinadaptivecomputationofPageRank([8],[11])orevenestimationofPageRankscores[7].
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In[10]amethodcalledpredictiverankingisproposed,aimingatestimatingtheWebstructurebasedontheintuitionthatthecrawlingandconsequentlytherankingresultsareinaccurate(duetoinadequatedataanddanglingpages).
Inthiswork,theauthorsdonotmakefuturerankpredictions.
Instead,theyestimatethemissingdatainordertoachievemoreaccuraterankings.
In[14]theauthorssuggestanewmeasureforrankingscienticarticles,basedonfuturecitations.
Basedonpublicationtimeandauthor'sname,theypredictfuturecitationsandsuggestabettermodel.
3PredictionMethodsInthissection,wepresentaframeworkthataimstopredictthefuturerankpositionofWebpagesbasedontheirtrendsshownthepast.
OurgoalistondpatternsinrankingevolutionofWebpages.
GivenasetofsuccessiveWebgraphsnapshots,foreachpagewegenerateasequenceofrankchangeratesthatindicatesthetrendsofthispageamongtheprevioussnapshots.
WeusethesesequencesofprevioussnapshotsoftheWebgraphasatrainingsetandtrytopredictthetrendsofaWebpagebasedonprevious.
Theremainingofthissectionisorganizedasfollows:InSect.
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1wetrainMMsofvariousordersandtrytopredictthetrendsofaWebpage.
Section3.
2discussesanapproachthatusesaseparatelinearregressionmodelforeachwebpage,whileSect.
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3combineslinearregressionwithclusteringbasedonanEMprobabilisticframework.
RankChangeRate.
InordertopredictfuturerankingsofWebpages,weneedtodeneameasureintroducedin[12]suitableformeasuringpagerankdynamics.
Webrieypresentitsdesign.
LetGtibethesnapshotoftheWebgraphcreatedbyacrawlandnti=|Gti|thenumberofWebpagesattimeti.
Then,rank(p,ti)isafunctionprovidingtherankingofaWebpagep∈Gti,accordingtosomecriterion(i.
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PageRankvalues).
Intuitively,anappropriatemeasureforWebpagestrendsistherankchangeratebetweentwosnapshots,butasthesizeoftheWebgraphconstantlyincreasesthetrendmeasureshouldbecomparableacrossdierentgraphsizes.
Thus,weutilizethenormalizedrank(nrank)ofaWebpage,asitwasdenedin[12].
Forapageprankedatpositionrank(p,ti):nrank(p,ti)=2·rank(p,ti)n2ti,whichrangesbetween2n2tiand2n1ti.
Then,usingthenormalizedranks,theRankChangeRate(Racer)isgivenbyracer(p,ti)=1nrank(p,ti+1)nrank(p,ti).
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1MarkovModelLearningMarkovModels(MMs)[1]havebeenwidelyusedforstudyingandunderstandingstochasticprocessesandbehaveverywellonmodelingandpredictingvaluesinvariousapplications.
Theirfundamentalassumptionisthatthefuturevaluedependsonanumberofmpreviousvalues,wheremistheorderoftheMM.
AFrameworkforWebPageRankPrediction243TheyaredenedbasedonasetofstatesS={s1,s2,sn}andamatrixToftransitionprobabilitiestieachofwhichrepresentstheprobabilitythatastatesioccursafterasequenceofstates.
OurgoalistorepresenttheWebpagesrankingtrendsacrossdierentwebgraphsnapshots.
WeusetheracervaluestodescribetherankchangeofaWebpagebetweentwosnapshotsandweutilizeracersequencestolearnMMs.
Ob-viously,stablerankingacrosstimeisrepresentedbyazeroracervalue,whileallothertrendsbyrealnumbersgeneratingahugespaceofdiscretevalues.
Asexpected(intuitivelymostpagesareexpectedtoremainstableforsometimeirrespectivetotheirrankatthetime),thezerovaluehasanunreasonablyhighfrequencycomparedtoallothervalueswhichmeansthatallstatesbesidesthezerooneshouldbeformedbyinherentrangesofvaluesinsteadofasingledis-crete.
Inordertoensureequalprobabilityfortransitionbetweenanypairofstates,weguaranteedequiprobablestatesbyformingrangeswithequalcumu-lativefrequencies(showingracervaluewithintherange)witheachother.
InordertocalculatethestatenumberforourMMs,wecomputedtherelativecumulativefrequencyofthezeroracerstateRFRacer=0andusedthistondtheoptimumnumberofstatesns=lRFRacer=0.
Next,weformednsequiprobablepartitionsandusedtheranges'meanaveragevaluesasstatestotrainourmodel.
Weshouldnotethatwithinthesignicantlyhighfrequencyofthezeroracervalues,arealsoconsideredpagesinitiallyobtainedwithinthetop-klistandthenfell(andremained)out.
WeremoveanybiasfromRFRacer=0,excludinganyvaluesnotcorrespondingtostablerankandobtainingRFRacer=0≈0.
1whichinturnsuggested10equiprobablestates.
PredictionswithRacer.
BasedonthesetofstatesmentionedaboveandformedtorepresentWebpagetrends,weareabletotrainMMsandpredictthetrendofaWebpageinthefutureaccordingtopasttrends.
Byassumingm+1temporallysuccessivecrawls,resultinginrespectivesnapshots,asequenceofmstates(representativeofracervalues)areconstructedforeachWebpage.
Theseareusedtoconstructanm-orderMM.
Notethatthememorymisaninherentfeatureofthemodel.
Aftercomputingtransitionprobabilitiesforeverypath,usingthegeneratedstates,thefuturestatescanbepredictedbyusingthechainrule[1].
Thus,foranm-orderMarkovModel,thepathprobabilityofastatesequenceisP(s1→.
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→sm)=P(s1)·mi=2P(si|sim,.
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,si1),whereeachsi(i∈{1,2,n})foranytimeintervalmayvaryoverallthepossiblestates(rangesofracervalues).
Then,predictingthefuturetrendofapageisperformedbycomputingthemostlikelynextstategiventhesofarstatepath.
Inspecic,assumingmtimeintervals,thenextmostprobablestateXiscomputedas:X=argmaxXP(s1→.
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→sm1→X).
Usingthat,wepredictfuturestatesforeachpage.
AseachstateisthemeanofaRacerrange,wecomputebackthefuturenrank.
Therefore,weareabletopredictfuturetop-krankingbysortingtheracerofWebpagesinascendingorder.
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2RegressionModelsAssumeasetofNWebpagesandobservationsofnrankvaluesatmtimesteps.
Letxi=(xi1,xim)bethenrankvaluesforWebpageiatthetimepointst=(t1,tm),wherethe(N*m)designmatrixXstoresalltheobservednrankvaluessothateachrowcorrespondstoaWebpageandeachcolumntoatimepoint.
GiventhesevalueswewishtopredictthenrankvaluexiforeachWebpageatsometimetwhichtypicallycorrespondstoafuturetimepoint(t>ti,i=1,m).
Next,wediscussasimplepredictionmethodbasedonlinearregressionwheretheinputvariablecorrespondstotimeandtheoutputtothenrankvalue.
ForacertainWebpageiweassumealinearregressionmodelhavingtheformxik=aitk+bi+k,k=1,m(kdenotesazero-meanGaussiannoise).
Notethattheparameters(ai,bi)areWebpage-specicandtheirvaluesarecalculatedusingleastsquares.
Inotherwords,theaboveformulationdenesaseparatelinearregressionmodelforeachWebpagethustheytreatindependently.
ThiscanberestrictivesincepossibleexistingsimilaritiesanddependenciesbetweendierentWebpagesarenottakenintoaccount.
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3ClusteringUsingEMWeassumethatthenrankvaluesofeachWebpagefallintooneofJdierentclusters.
Clusteringcanbeviewedastrainingamixtureprobabilitymodel.
TogeneratethenrankvaluesxiforWebpagei,werstselecttheclustertypejwithprobabilityπj(whereπj≥0andJj=1πj=1)andthenproducethevaluesxiaccordingtoalinearregressionmodelxik=aitk+bi+k,k=1,m,wherekisindependentGaussiannoisewithzeromeanandvarianceσ2j.
ThisimpliesthatgiventheclustertypejthenrankvaluesaredrawnfromtheproductofGaussiansp(xi|j)=mk=1N(xik|ajtk+bj,σ2j).
TheclustertypethatgeneratedthenrankvaluesofacertainWebpageisanunobservedvariableandthusaftermarginalizationweobtainamixtureuncon-ditionaldensityp(xi)=Jj=1πjp(xi|j)fortheobservationvectorxi.
Totrainthemixturemodelandestimatetheparametersθ=(πj,σ2j,aj,bj)j=1,.
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,J,wecanmaximizetheloglikelihoodofthedataL(θ)=logNi=1p(xi)byusingtheEMalgorithm[2].
Givenaninitialstatefortheparameters,EMoptimizesoverθbyiteratingbetweenEandMsteps:TheEstepcomputestheposteriorprobabilitiesRij=πjp(xi|j)Jρ=1πρp(xi|ρ),forj=1,Jandi=1,N,(Nisthetotalnumberofwebpages).
TheMstepupdatestheparametersaccordingto:πj=1NNi=1Rij,σ2j=Ni=1Rijmk=1(xikajtkbj)2πjandajbj=1NjtTttT1tT1m1Ni=1RijxTitNi=1RijxTi1,j=1,J,tisthevectorofalltimepointsand1isthem-dimensionalvectorofones.
Oncewehaveobtainedsuitablevaluesfortheparameters,wecanusethemixturemodelforprediction.
Particularly,topredictthenrankvaluexiofWebAFrameworkforWebPageRankPrediction245pageiattgiventheobservedvaluesxi=(xi1,xim)atprevioustimes,weexpresstheposteriordistributionp(xi|xi)usingtheBayesrulep(xi|xi)=Jj=1RijNxiajt+bj,s2j,whereRijiscomputedaccordingtoE-step.
Toobtainaspecicpredictivevalueforxi,wecanusethemeanvalueoftheaboveposteriordistributionxi=Jj=1Rij(ajt+bj)orthemedianestimatexi=ajt+bj,wherej=argmaxρRiρthatconsidersahardassignmentoftheWebpageintooneoftheJclusters.
4Top-kListSimilarityMeasuresInordertoevaluatethequalityofpredictions,weneedtomeasurethesimilar-ityofthepredictedtotheactualtop-kranking.
Forthispurpose,weexaminemeasurescommonlyusedforcomparingrankings,pointouttheshortcomingsofexistinganddeneanewsimilaritymeasurefortop-krankings,denotedasRSim.
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1ExistingSimilarityMeasuresTherstone,denotedasOSim(A,B)[4]indicatesthedegreeofoverlapbetweenthetop-kelementsoftwosetsAandB(eachoneofsizek):OSim(A,B)=|A∩B|k.
Thesecond,KSim(A,B)[4],isbasedonKendall'sdistancemeasure[3]andindicatesthedegreethattherelativeorderingsoftwotop-klistsareinagreement:KSim(A,B)=|(u,v):A,B,agreeinorder||A∪B|(|A∪B|1),whereAisanextensionofAresultingfromappendingatitstailtheelementsx∈A∪(BA)andBisdenedanalogously.
AnotherinterestingmeasureintroducedinInformationRetrievalforevaluat-ingtheaccumulatedrelevanceofatop-kdocumentlisttoaqueryisthe(Nor-malized)DiscountedCumulativeGain(N(DCG))[5].
Thismeasureassumesatop-klist,whereeachdocumentisfeaturedwitharelevancescoreaccumulatedbyscanningthelistfromtoptobottom.
AlthoughDCGcouldbeusedfortheevaluationofourpredictions,sinceittakesintoaccounttherelevanceofatop-klisttoanother,itexhibitssomebasicfeaturesthatpreventedusfromusingitinourexperiments.
Itpenalizeserrorsbymaintaininganincreasingvalueofcumulativerelevance.
Whilethisisbasedontherankofeachdocument,thesizekofthelistisnottakenintoaccount–thusthelengthofthelistisirrelevantinDCG.
Errorsintopranksofatop-klistshouldbeconsideredmoreimpor-tantthanerrorsinlow-rankedpositions.
ThisimportantfeaturelacksfrombothDCGandNDCGmeasures.
Moreover,DCGvalueforeachrankinthetop-klistiscomputedtakingintoaccountthepreviousvaluesinthelist.
Next,weintroduceSpearman'sRankCorrelationCoecient,whichwasusedduringtheexperimentalevaluation,consistsanon-parametric(distribution-free)rankstatisticproposedbySpearman(1904)measuringthestrengthofassoci-ationsbetweentwovariablesandisoftensymbolizedbyρ.
Itestimateshowwelltherelationshipbetweentwovariablescanbedescribedusingamonotonic246E.
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Iftherearenorepeateddatavaluesofthesevariables(likeinrankingproblem),aperfectSpearmancorrelationof+1or-1existsifeachvariableisaperfectmonotonefunctionoftheother.
ItisoftenconfusedwiththePearsoncorrelationcoecientbetweenrankedvariables.
However,theprocedureusedtocalculateρismuchsimpler.
IfXandYaretwovariableswithcorrespondingranksxiandyi,di=xiyi,i=1,n,betweentheranksofeachobservationonthetwovariables,thenitisgivenby:ρ=16·ni=1d2in(n21).
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2RSimQualityMeasureTheobservedsimilaritymeasuresdonotcoversucientlythenegrainedre-quirementsarising,comparingtop-krankingsintheWebsearchcontext.
Soweneedanewsimilaritymetrictakingintoconsideration:a)TheabsolutedierencebetweenthepredictedandactualpositionforeachWebpageaslargedierenceindicatesalessaccuratepredictionandb)TheactualrankingpositionofaWebpage,becausefailingtopredictahighlyrankedWebpageismoreimportantthanalow-ranked.
Basedontheseobservations,weintroduceanewmeasure,namedRSim.
Everyinaccuratepredictionmadeincursacertainpenaltydependingonthetwonotedfactors.
Ifpredictionis100%accurate(samepredictedandactualrank),thepenaltyisequaltozero.
LetBibethepredictedrankpositionforpageiandAitheactual.
TheCumulativePenaltyScore(CPS)iscomputedasCPS(A,B)=ki=1|AiBi|·(k+1Ai).
TheproposedpenaltyscoreCPSrepresentstheoverallerror(dierence)be-tweentheinvolvedtop-klistsAandBandisproportionalto|AiBi|.
Theterm(k+1Ai)increaseswhenAibecomessmallersoerrorsinhighlyrankedWebpagesarepenalizedmore.
Inthebestcase,rankpredictionsforallWebpagesarecompletelyaccurate(CPS=0),sinceAi=Biforanyvalueofi.
Intheworstcase,therankpredictionsforallWebpagesnotonlyareinaccurate,butalsobearthegreatestCPSpenaltypossible.
Insuchascenario,alltheWebpagespredictedtobeinthetop-klist,actuallyholdthepositionk+1(orworse).
Assumingthatwewanttocomparetworankingsoflengthk,thenthemax-imumCPSforevenandoddvaluesofkisequalto2k3+3k2+k6.
TheproofforCPSmaxnalformisomittedduetospacelimitations.
Basedontheabovewedeneanewsimilaritymeasure,RSim,tocomparethesimilaritybetweentop-kranklistsasfollows:RSim(Ai,Bi)=1CPS(Ai,Bi)CPSmax(Ai,Bi).
(1)Inthebest-casepredictionscenario,RSimisequaltoone,whileintheworst-caseRSimisequaltozero.
SothecloserthevalueofRSimistoone,thebetterandmoreaccuratetherankpredictionsare.
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PredictionaccuracyvsTop-klistlength-Yahoodataset5ExperimentalEvaluationInordertoevaluatetheeectivenessofourmethodsweperformedexperimentsontwodierentrealworlddatasets.
Theseconsistcollectionsoftop-krankedlistsfor22queriesoveraperiodof11daysasresultedfromtheYahoo!
1andtheGooglesearchengines,producedinthesameway.
Inourexperiments,weevaluatethepredictionqualityintermsofsimilaritiesbetweenthepredictedandtheactualtop-krankedlistsusingOSim,KSim,NDCG,SpearmancorrelationandthenovelsimilaritymeasureRSim.
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1DatasetsandQuerySelectionForeachdataset(YahooandGoogle)awealthofsnapshotswereavailable,en-suringwehaveenoughevolutiontotestourapproach.
Aconcisedescriptionofeachdatasetandquery-basedapproachfollow.
TheYahooandGoogledatasetsconsistof11consecutivedailytop-1000rankedlistscomputedusingtheYa-hooSearchWebServices2andtheGoogleSearchenginerespectively.
Thesesetswerepickedfrompopular:a)queriesappearedinGoogleTrends3andb)currentqueries(i.
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PredictionaccuracyvsTop-klistlength-Googledataseteachsnapshotofourdatasetsandobtainedthetop-krankingsusingthescoringfunctionmentioned.
Havingcomputedthescores,wecalculatedthenrank(racervaluesforMMs)foreachpairofconsecutivegraphsnapshotsandstoredtheminamatrixnrank(racer)*time.
Then,assuminganm-pathofconsecutivesnapshots,wepredictthem+1state.
Foreachpagep,wepredictarankingcomparingittoactualbya10-foldcrossvalidationprocess(training90%ofdatasetandtestingontheremaining10%).
InthecaseoftheEMapproach,wetestedthequalityofclusteringresultsforclusterscardinalitybetween2and10foreachqueryandchosetheonethatmaximizedtheoverallqualityofclustering.
Thiswasdenedasamonotonecombinationofwithin-clusterwc(sumofsquareddistancesfromeachpointtothecenterofclusteritbelongsto)andbetween-clustervariationbc(distancebetweenclustercenters).
Asscorefunctionofclustering,weconsideredtheratiobc/wc.
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3ExperimentalResultsRegardingtheGoogleandYahoo!
datasetresultscomingoutoftheexperimen-talevaluation,onecanseethattheMMsprevailwithveryaccurateresults.
Regressionbasedtechniques(LinReg)reachandoutweighMMsperformanceasthelengthoftop-klistincreasesprovingtheirrobustness.
InbothdatasetsexperimentsprovethesuperiorityofEMapproach(BayesMod)whoseperformanceisverysatisfyingforallsimilaritymeasures.
TheMMscomenextintheevaluationranking,whereassmallertheorderisthebetteristhepredictionaccuracy,thoughonewouldthinkofthecontrary.
AFrameworkforWebPageRankPrediction249Obviously(gures)theproposedframeworkoersincrediblyhighaccuracypredictionsandisveryencouraging,asitrangessystematicallybetween70%and100%providingatoolforeectivepredictions.
6ConclusionsWehavedescribedpredictorlearningalgorithmsforWebpagerankpredictionbasedonaframeworkoflearningtechniques(MMs,LinReg,BayesMod)andexperimentalstudyshowedthattheycanachieveoverallverygoodpredictionperformance.
Furtherworkwillfocusinthefollowingissues:a)Multi-featureprediction:weintendtodealwiththeinternalmechanismthatproducestherankingofpages(notonlyrankvalues)basedonmultiplefeatures,b)Combi-nationofsuchmethodswithdimensionalityreductiontechniques.
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