“…, p or ranking of p items given a (potentially incomplete) set of pairwise comparisons which encode a noise proxy for i − j . Alternative ranking algorithms that could be employed for defining the leadingness of a cluster include [Fogel et al, 2016, Cucuringu, 2016, De Bacco et al, 2018, d'Aspremont et al, 2021, Bradley and Terry, 1952, Page et al, 1998], as well as Chau et al [2020] for rankings that incorporate any available node level covariates.…”