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48 results for spectral graph embeddings

Graph convolutional networks fail to use eigenvectors beyond the first, unlike spectral embedding.

problem Understanding when graph convolutional networks fail compared to spectral embedding.
method Presented a simple generative model to illustrate failure.
result Graph convolutional networks fail to use eigenvectors beyond the first in certain graphs.

A novel 3D shape registration method using spectral graph embedding and probabilistic matching.

problem Challenges in 3D shape analysis and registration, especially with large variability.
method Combining spectral graph matching with Laplacian embedding for large graphs, using commute-time embedding and PCA.
result A method to register shapes with different samplings and isometric deformations.

Spectral algorithms are graph partitioning algorithms that partition a node set of a graph into groups by using a spectral embedding map. Clustering techniques based on the algorithms are referred to as spectral clustering and are widely used in data analysis. To gain a better understanding of why spectral clustering i…

2019-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores embedding methods for detecting pseudo-cliques in random graphs, showing limitations and potential.

problem Detecting planted pseudo-cliques in random dot product graphs.
method Adjacency Spectral Embedding (ASE) and Graph Encoder Embedding (GEE).
result These methods can localize pseudo-cliques with additional clean network data, but not without it.

Clustering is concerned with coherently grouping observations without any explicit concept of true groupings. Spectral graph clustering - clustering the vertices of a graph based on their spectral embedding - is commonly approached via K-means (or, more generally, Gaussian mixture model) clustering composed with either…

2018-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Spectral graph sparsification preserves geometry of GNN embeddings.

problem Maintaining geometric properties of graph neural network embeddings during sparsification.
method Proving spectral sparsification preserves squared pairwise distances, class means, and covariance structure in embedding space.
result Spectral sparsification preserves the geometry of learned embeddings in GNNs.

We present a novel spectral embedding of graphs that incorporates weights assigned to the nodes, quantifying their relative importance. This spectral embedding is based on the first eigenvectors of some properly normalized version of the Laplacian. We prove that these eigenvectors correspond to the configurations of lo…

2018-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning meaningful graphs from data plays important roles in many data mining and machine learning tasks, such as data representation and analysis, dimension reduction, data clustering, and visualization, etc. In this work, for the first time, we present a highly-scalable spectral approach (GRASPEL) for learning large…

2019-11-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The random dot product graph (RDPG) is an independent-edge random graph that is analytically tractable and, simultaneously, either encompasses or can successfully approximate a wide range of random graphs, from relatively simple stochastic block models to complex latent position graphs. In this survey paper, we describ…

2017-09-16abs ↗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.

When analyzing weighted networks using spectral embedding, a judicious transformation of the edge weights may produce better results. To formalize this idea, we consider the asymptotic behavior of spectral embedding for different edge-weight representations, under a generic low rank model. We measure the quality of dif…

2019-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper characterizes and explains the disagreement between two graph embedding methods.

problem Understanding why two popular graph embedding methods produce different results.
method End-to-end analysis of ASE-LSE latent subspaces, proving conditions for agreement and disagreement.
result No maximal-disagreement graph exists; disagreement is strictly below its theoretical ceiling.

Survey of Laplacian-based methods for data dimensionality reduction and embedding.

problem Efficiently reducing high-dimensional data to lower dimensions while preserving important features and structures.
method Laplacian-based methods including spectral clustering, Laplacian eigenmap, locality preserving projection, graph embedding, and diffusion map.
result Comprehensive overview of various optimization variants and applications of Laplacian-based techniques.

Spectral embedding is a popular technique for the representation of graph data. Several regularization techniques have been proposed to improve the quality of the embedding with respect to downstream tasks like clustering. In this paper, we explain on a simple block model the impact of the complete graph regularization…

2019-12-23abs ↗pdf ↗

New spectral clustering method for graphs with uneven node degrees.

problem Challenges in community detection for graphs with heterogeneous degree distributions.
method Spectral clustering on spherical coordinates with degree correction.
result Improved performance in representing computer networks.

InfiniteWalk connects deep network embeddings to spectral graph theory with a nonlinear transformation.

problem Learning node representations from networks with deep learning methods.
method Study of the DeepWalk objective in the limit as window size goes to infinity, linking to spectral graph embeddings with a nonlinear transformation.
result Simple binary thresholding of the Laplacian pseudoinverse can approximate DeepWalk embeddings.

We propose a new method to model multi-way similarities into hypergraphs for clustering.

problem Clustering real-valued data using hypergraphs with multi-way similarities.
method Formulate multi-way similarities using kernel functions, establish connections to hypergraph cut, and develop a fast spectral clustering algorithm.
result Our method outperforms existing graph and heuristic modeling methods in clustering performance.

The paper corrects for node degree in spectral clustering using random walk Laplacian.

problem Node degree heterogeneity in spectral clustering.
method Graph spectral embedding using the random walk Laplacian.
result The embedding provides uniformly consistent estimates of degree-corrected latent positions.

Can one reduce the size of a graph without significantly altering its basic properties? The graph reduction problem is hereby approached from the perspective of restricted spectral approximation, a modification of the spectral similarity measure used for graph sparsification. This choice is motivated by the observation…

2018-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Spectro-Riemannian Graph Neural Networks integrate spectral and curvature signals for better graph representation learning.

problem Enhance graph representation learning by leveraging spectral and curvature signals.
method Proposes Spectro-Riemannian Graph Neural Networks (CUSP) that combines spectral and curvature insights.
result Empirical evaluation shows CUSP outperforms state-of-the-art models by up to 5.3%.

This paper develops a coreset method for GNNs that speeds up training on large graphs.

problem Training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on large-scale graphs is computationally expensive.
method The paper proposes a spectral greedy coreset (SGGC) method that selects ego-graphs based on spectral embeddings.
result SGGC significantly speeds up GNN training on large graphs and outperforms other coreset methods.

The paper defines surface area for graphs and derives spectral estimates.

problem Understanding connectivity measures and spectral properties of graphs.
method Introducing surface area concepts related to inverse degree and deriving spectral bounds.
result An upper bound on the second eigenvalue for planar graphs.

A new method uses matrix sketches for efficient graph clustering in dynamic environments.

problem Efficiently clustering large, dynamic graphs in distributed memory systems.
method Inspired by spectral clustering, the approach uses random dimension-reducing projections to derive matrix sketches.
result The method produces embeddings that yield performant clustering results in a fully-dynamic stochastic block model stream.

We define a class of Euclidean distances on weighted graphs, enabling to perform thermodynamic soft graph clustering. The class can be constructed form the "raw coordinates" encountered in spectral clustering, and can be extended by means of higher-dimensional embeddings (Schoenberg transformations). Geographical flow …

2010-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Just as semantic hashing can accelerate information retrieval, binary valued embeddings can significantly reduce latency in the retrieval of graphical data. We introduce a simple but effective model for learning such binary vectors for nodes in a graph. By imagining the embeddings as independent coin flips of varying b…

2018-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Many popular dimensionality reduction procedures have out-of-sample extensions, which allow a practitioner to apply a learned embedding to observations not seen in the initial training sample. In this work, we consider the problem of obtaining an out-of-sample extension for the adjacency spectral embedding, a procedure…

2018-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

SpecNet2 improves spectral embedding without orthogonalization, achieving better performance and efficiency.

problem Improving spectral embedding methods for better performance and efficiency.
method Optimizes an equivalent objective of the eigen-problem without orthogonalization, allowing separate row and column sampling.
result Local and global convergence of the new objective using batch-based gradient descent is proven, and improved performance and efficiency are demonstrated on simulated and image datasets.

This paper improves spectral embedding for multipartite networks, revealing latent subspaces and providing consistent node representations.

problem Improving spectral embedding for multipartite networks to better represent node types.
method Developed a follow-on step to spectral embedding that recovers node representations in their intrinsic rather than ambient dimension, proving consistency under a specific model.
result Node representations in multipartite networks lie near type-specific subspaces, and the proposed method recovers these representations consistently.

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular methods for community detection in graphs. A key step in spectral clustering algorithms is the eigen decomposition of the n×nn{\times}n graph Laplacian matrix to extract its kk leading eigenvectors, where kk is the desired number of clusters among nn objects. This is pro…

2017-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗