Motif-based spectral clustering of weighted directed networks

Clustering is an essential technique for network analysis, with applications in a diverse range of fields. Although spectral clustering is a popular and effective method, it fails to consider higher-order structure and can perform poorly on directed networks. One approach is to capture and cluster h...

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主要な著者: Underwood, WG, Elliott, A, Cucuringu, M
フォーマット: Journal article
言語:English
出版事項: SpringerOpen 2020
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author Underwood, WG
Elliott, A
Cucuringu, M
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Elliott, A
Cucuringu, M
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description Clustering is an essential technique for network analysis, with applications in a diverse range of fields. Although spectral clustering is a popular and effective method, it fails to consider higher-order structure and can perform poorly on directed networks. One approach is to capture and cluster higher-order structures using motif adjacency matrices. However, current formulations fail to take edge weights into account, and thus are somewhat limited when weight is a key component of the network under study.We address these shortcomings by exploring motif-based weighted spectral clustering methods. We present new and computationally useful matrix formulae for motif adjacency matrices on weighted networks, which can be used to construct efficient algorithms for any anchored or non-anchored motif on three nodes. In a very sparse regime, our proposed method can handle graphs with a million nodes and tens of millions of edges. We further use our framework to construct a motif-based approach for clustering bipartite networks.We provide comprehensive experimental results, demonstrating (i) the scalability of our approach, (ii) advantages of higher-order clustering on synthetic examples, and (iii) the effectiveness of our techniques on a variety of real world data sets; and compare against several techniques from the literature. We conclude that motif-based spectral clustering is a valuable tool for analysis of directed and bipartite weighted networks, which is also scalable and easy to implement.
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spelling oxford-uuid:5bf9e5a9-71ed-481c-baf0-a2d9a0e94dcd2022-03-26T17:25:26ZMotif-based spectral clustering of weighted directed networksJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:5bf9e5a9-71ed-481c-baf0-a2d9a0e94dcdEnglishSymplectic ElementsSpringerOpen2020Underwood, WGElliott, ACucuringu, MClustering is an essential technique for network analysis, with applications in a diverse range of fields. Although spectral clustering is a popular and effective method, it fails to consider higher-order structure and can perform poorly on directed networks. One approach is to capture and cluster higher-order structures using motif adjacency matrices. However, current formulations fail to take edge weights into account, and thus are somewhat limited when weight is a key component of the network under study.We address these shortcomings by exploring motif-based weighted spectral clustering methods. We present new and computationally useful matrix formulae for motif adjacency matrices on weighted networks, which can be used to construct efficient algorithms for any anchored or non-anchored motif on three nodes. In a very sparse regime, our proposed method can handle graphs with a million nodes and tens of millions of edges. We further use our framework to construct a motif-based approach for clustering bipartite networks.We provide comprehensive experimental results, demonstrating (i) the scalability of our approach, (ii) advantages of higher-order clustering on synthetic examples, and (iii) the effectiveness of our techniques on a variety of real world data sets; and compare against several techniques from the literature. We conclude that motif-based spectral clustering is a valuable tool for analysis of directed and bipartite weighted networks, which is also scalable and easy to implement.
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Elliott, A
Cucuringu, M
Motif-based spectral clustering of weighted directed networks
title Motif-based spectral clustering of weighted directed networks
title_full Motif-based spectral clustering of weighted directed networks
title_fullStr Motif-based spectral clustering of weighted directed networks
title_full_unstemmed Motif-based spectral clustering of weighted directed networks
title_short Motif-based spectral clustering of weighted directed networks
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