11.5.2007 HIIT Seminar

HIIT seminars in spring 2007 will be held in hall **B222** of Exactum, on Fridays starting at 10:15 a.m. Coffee available from 10.

Fri May 11
Pekka Orponen
Local Clustering of Large Graphs by Approximate Fiedler Vectors

Abstract:
We address the problem of determining the natural neighbourhood of a given node i in a large nonuniform network G in a way that uses only local computations, i.e.  without recourse to the full adjacency matrix of G.  We present a constrained spectral clustering approach to the task. Observing that a gradient method for computing the respective Fiedler vector values at each node can be implemented in a local manner leads to our eventual algorithm.  The algorithm is evaluated experimentally using three types of nonuniform networks: randomised "caveman graphs", a scientific collaboration network, and a small social interaction network. (Joint work with Satu Elisa Schaeffer.)

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