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48 results for attributed network clustering

Proposes VCLANC for attributed network clustering using node and attribute embeddings.

problem Lack of mutual affinity exploitation between nodes and attributes in graph convolution.
method Dual variational auto-encoders for node and attribute embeddings, Gaussian mixture model priors, mutual distance and clustering assignment hardening losses.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on real-world attributed network datasets.

This work tackles community detection in networks with node attributes, achieving exact recovery.

problem Community detection in networks with correlated node attributes.
method Information-theoretic criterion and iterative clustering algorithm maximizing joint likelihood.
result Exact recovery of community labels under a general model for network and node attributes.

A new model detects complex network communities using node attributes.

problem Lack of methods integrating node attributes for community detection in attributed networks.
method BCSBM model that integrates betweenness centrality and clustering coefficient of nodes.
result BCSBM model outperforms other methods in detecting various network structures.

Attributed graph clustering is challenging as it requires joint modelling of graph structures and node attributes. Recent progress on graph convolutional networks has proved that graph convolution is effective in combining structural and content information, and several recent methods based on it have achieved promisin…

2019-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved graph clustering with modularity and coarsening for attributes and communities.

problem Inaccurate community detection and computational inefficiency in graph clustering.
method Integrates coarsening and modularity maximization, using a loss function with log-determinant, smoothness, and modularity components.
result Superior clustering outcomes, proven consistent under DC-SBM, and efficient algorithm integration with GNNs and VGAEs.

Proposes methods for local clustering in attributed graphs.

problem Finding a single cluster concentrated on a specific region in a graph.
method Introduces Graph Unimodality (GU) and Attribute Unimodality (AU) measures, and LOCLU algorithm to optimize Compactness score.
result Local cluster detected by LOCLU concentrates on the region of interest and exhibits unimodal data distribution.

A clustering may be considered as fair on pre-specified sensitive attributes if the proportions of sensitive attribute groups in each cluster reflect that in the dataset. In this paper, we consider the task of fair clustering for scenarios involving multiple multi-valued or numeric sensitive attributes. We propose a fa…

2019-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

SASE improves attributed graph clustering for large graphs with linear time and space complexity.

problem Challenges in clustering large attributed graphs due to high computational and memory costs.
method SASE combines node features smoothing, scalable spectral clustering, and adaptive order selection.
result SASE achieves a 6.9% improvement in ACC and a 5.87x speedup on the ArXiv dataset.

In predictive process analytics, current and historical process data in event logs is used to predict the future, e.g., to predict the next activity or how long a process will still require to complete. Recurrent neural networks (RNN) and its subclasses have been demonstrated to be well suited for creating prediction m…

2019-04-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper introduces a new method to cluster qualitative attribute data using tree structures.

problem Clustering qualitative attribute data, especially when values are not in Euclidean space.
method Developed a joint learning mechanism to iteratively learn trees representing qualitative values' order relationships.
result The joint learning mechanism successfully clusters qualitative attribute data, yielding accurate results.

Attributed network embedding has attracted plenty of interest in recent years. It aims to learn task-independent, low-dimensional, and continuous vectors for nodes preserving both topology and attribute information. Most of the existing methods, such as random-walk based methods and GCNs, mainly focus on the local info…

2020-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

STICC clusters geographic objects considering both spatial contiguity and attributes.

problem Discovering repeated geographic patterns with spatial contiguity.
method Spatial Toeplitz Inverse Covariance-Based Clustering (STICC) method.
result STICC significantly outperforms baseline methods in adjusted rand index and macro-F1 score.

New model for fair clustering ensures balanced representation of protected attributes.

problem Ensuring fair representation in clustering for protected attributes.
method Model-based formulation of fair clustering, balancing protected attributes across clusters.
result Demonstrates improved fairness in clustering through a new model.

We consider the problem of diversity enhancing clustering, i.e, developing clustering methods which produce clusters that favour diversity with respect to a set of protected attributes such as race, sex, age, etc. In the context of fair clustering, diversity plays a major role when fairness is understood as demographic…

2019-04-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph clustering is a fundamental task which discovers communities or groups in networks. Recent studies have mostly focused on developing deep learning approaches to learn a compact graph embedding, upon which classic clustering methods like k-means or spectral clustering algorithms are applied. These two-step framewo…

2019-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We present an analysis of the credit market of Japan. The analysis is performed by investigating the bipartite network of banks and firms which is obtained by setting a link between a bank and a firm when a credit relationship is present in a given time window. In our investigation we focus on a community detection alg…

2014-07-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Latent variable models for network data extract a summary of the relational structure underlying an observed network. The simplest possible models subdivide nodes of the network into clusters; the probability of a link between any two nodes then depends only on their cluster assignment. Currently available models can b…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Network embedding leverages the node proximity manifested to learn a low-dimensional node vector representation for each node in the network. The learned embeddings could advance various learning tasks such as node classification, network clustering, and link prediction. Most, if not all, of the existing works, are ove…

2017-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

A recent trend in machine learning has been to enrich learned models with the ability to explain their own predictions. The emerging field of Explainable AI (XAI) has so far mainly focused on supervised learning, in particular, deep neural network classifiers. In many practical problems however, label information is no…

2019-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New method predicts dynamic relationships in terrorist networks.

problem Dynamic co-evolution of multiplex graphs and nodal attributes in terrorism networks.
method Time-varying stochastic latent factor models with neural network Gaussian processes.
result Superior performance in predicting unobserved dynamic relationships.

Interpreting predictions from tree ensemble methods such as gradient boosting machines and random forests is important, yet feature attribution for trees is often heuristic and not individualized for each prediction. Here we show that popular feature attribution methods are inconsistent, meaning they can lower a featur…

2018-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

CAGNN learns graph embeddings without labels by clustering and refining graph topology.

problem Learning graph embeddings without labeled data.
method Cluster-aware graph neural network (CAGNN) with self-supervised learning and topology refinement.
result CAGNN achieves significant improvements in node clustering accuracy.

Quantum time evolution exhibits rich physics, attributable to the interplay between the density and phase of a wave function. However, unlike classical heat diffusion, the wave nature of quantum mechanics has not yet been extensively explored in modern data analysis. We propose that the Laplace transform of quantum tra…

2017-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Consistent spectral clustering with fairness constraints on representation graphs.

problem Finding balanced clusters in similarity graphs with fairness constraints.
method Developed variants of unnormalized and normalized spectral clustering for fair planted partitions.
result Consistency results for constrained spectral clustering under fair planted partitions.

MASC balances dataset representation using affinity clustering and distribution discrepancies.

problem Representation bias in datasets due to group imbalance.
method MASC uses affinity clustering and pairwise distribution discrepancies to balance non-protected and protected groups.
result MASC effectively debiases target datasets, comparable to existing methods.

AGE improves graph embedding by smoothing features and iteratively enhancing node embeddings.

problem Challenges in attributed graph embedding, especially in preserving optimal low-pass characteristics and robustness.
method AGE, a novel framework combining Laplacian smoothing and adaptive encoding, addresses these issues.
result AGE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods on node clustering and link prediction tasks.

New clustering algorithm for mixed data improves applicability and efficiency.

problem Clustering large, mixed data with improved accuracy and efficiency.
method Developed a new clustering algorithm using peak-finding technique, reducing computational complexity.
result Algorithm detects outliers, clusters of lower density, and determines correct number of clusters.

Social network analysis is an important problem in data mining. A fundamental step for analyzing social networks is to encode network data into low-dimensional representations, i.e., network embeddings, so that the network topology structure and other attribute information can be effectively preserved. Network represen…

2019-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

A new algorithm COVA-FC improves subgroup-fair clustering efficiency.

problem Challenges in making cluster assignments independent of sensitive attributes in subgroups.
method Defining a subgroup-fairness gap, deriving a covariance-based surrogate, and introducing a continuous relaxation for efficient optimization.
result COVA-FC achieves competitive cost-fairness trade-offs and improves computational efficiency.