Fast Random Walk with Restart over a Signed Graph

Abstract

RWR (Random Walk with Restart) is frequently used by many graph-based ranking algorithms, but it does not consider a signed graph where edges may have negative weight values. In this paper, we apply the Balance Theory by F. Heider to RWR over a signed graph and propose a novel RWR, Balanced Random Walk (BRW). We apply the proposed technique into the domain of recommendation system, and show by experiments its effectiveness to filter out the items that users may dislike. In order to provide the reasonable performance of BRW in the domain, we modify the existing Top-k algorithm, BCA, and propose a new algorithm, Bicolor-BCA. The proposed algorithm yet requires employing a threshold. In the experiment, we show how threshold values affect both precision and performance of the algorithm.