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Manipulation-resistant Reputations Using Hitting Time

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Popular reputation systems for linked networks can be manipulated by spammers who strategically place links. The reputation of node v is interpreted as the world's opinion of v's importance. In PageRank, v's own opinion can be seen to have considerable influence on her reputation, where v expresses a high opinion of herself by participating in short directed cycles. In contrast, we show that expected hitting time --- the time to reach v in a random walk --- measures essentially the same quantity as PageRank, but excludes v's opinion. We make these notions precise, and show that a reputation system based on hitting time resists tampering by individuals or groups who strategically place outlinks. We also present an algorithm to efficiently compute hitting time for all nodes in a massive graph; conventional algorithms do not scale adequately. Our algorithm, which applies to any random walk with restart, exploits a relationship between PageRank and hitting time in random walks with restart. This relationship also provides novel insights into spam detection and PageRank computation.

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2007-07-03

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Cornell University

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computer information science; technical report

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http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cis/TR2007-2085

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