cs.LGOct 1, 2022

Parametrized Power-Iteration Clustering for Directed Graphs

Authors: Gwendal Debaussart-JoniecHarry SeviMatthieu JonckheereArgyris Kalogeratos

Organizations: Universit´e Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, Centre Borelli, CNRS, France · CNRS, LAAS, France

Abstract

Vertex-level clustering for directed graphs (digraphs) remains challenging as edge directionality breaks the key assumptions underlying popular spectral methods, which also incur the overhead of eigen-decomposition. This paper proposes Parametrized Power-Iteration Clustering (ParPIC), a random-walk-based clustering method for weakly connected digraphs. This builds over the Power-Iteration Clustering paradigm, which uses the rows of the iterated diffusion operator as a data embedding. ParPIC has three important features: the use of parametrized reversible random walk operators, the automatic tuning of the diffusion time, and the efficient truncation of the final embedding, which produces low-dimensional data representations and reduces complexity. Empirical results on synthetic and real-world graphs demonstrate that ParPIC achieves competitive clustering accuracy with improved scalability relative to spectral and teleportation-based methods.

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