arXiv:1109.6546 · Physical Review Letters

Adiabatic Quantum Algorithm for Search Engine Ranking

Silvano Garnerone, Paolo Zanardi A, Daniel A. Lidar

Published Jun 4, 2012• 102 citations

Abstract

We propose an adiabatic quantum algorithm for generating a quantum pure state encoding of the PageRank vector, the most widely used tool in ranking the relative importance of internet pages. We present extensive numerical simulations which provide evidence that this algorithm can prepare the quantum PageRank state in a time which, on average, scales polylogarithmically in the number of web pages. We argue that the main topological feature of the underlying web graph allowing for such a scaling is the out-degree distribution. The top-ranked log(n) entries of the quantum PageRank state can then be estimated with a polynomial quantum speed-up. Moreover, the quantum PageRank state can be used in "q-sampling" protocols for testing properties of distributions, which require exponentially fewer measurements than all classical schemes designed for the same task. This can be used to decide whether to run a classical update of the PageRank.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.230506

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