https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1501.00358/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9062749urn:hackerpapers:mention:1501.00358:9062749Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:36:03 GMT<p>The connection between the random walk and embeddings has been characterized in [1] (disclosure: I am an author). It turns out embedding in this setting is exactly smarter page rank as you suggested, since PageRank recovers the underlying density structure of an embedding. I&#x27;m not hopeful that this is much more powerful than a matrix representation, since if [2] is true, it&#x27;s a matrix factorization of the random-walk marginal. It&#x27;s probably more scalable than the linear algebra approach, but not more powerful theoretically or representationally. One interesting connection that is unexplored…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1501.00358/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.LG