Scores

Authority(v) = sum of hub scores of pages pointing to v. Hub(v) = sum of authority scores of pages v points to.

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Iteration

Update authorities from hubs. Update hubs from authorities. Normalize. Repeat until convergence.

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vs PageRank

PageRank: single global score. HITS: query-dependent (compute on subgraph relevant to query).

Convergence

Corresponds to eigenvectors of A^T A + A A^T where A = adjacency matrix.