Faster Approximation Algorithms for Parameterized Graph Clustering and Edge Labeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04884v1
• Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023 02:29:37 GMT
• Title: Faster Approximation Algorithms for Parameterized Graph Clustering and Edge Labeling
• Authors: Vedangi Bengali, Nate Veldt
• Abstract summary: Graph clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis where the goal is to detect sets of nodes that are well-connected to each other but sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. We present faster approximation algorithms for an NP-hard parameterized clustering framework called LambdaCC.
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• Abstract: Graph clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis where the goal is to detect sets of nodes that are well-connected to each other but sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. We present faster approximation algorithms for an NP-hard parameterized clustering framework called LambdaCC, which is governed by a tunable resolution parameter and generalizes many other clustering objectives such as modularity, sparsest cut, and cluster deletion. Previous LambdaCC algorithms are either heuristics with no approximation guarantees, or computationally expensive approximation algorithms. We provide fast new approximation algorithms that can be made purely combinatorial. These rely on a new parameterized edge labeling problem we introduce that generalizes previous edge labeling problems that are based on the principle of strong triadic closure and are of independent interest in social network analysis. Our methods are orders of magnitude more scalable than previous approximation algorithms and our lower bounds allow us to obtain a posteriori approximation guarantees for previous heuristics that have no approximation guarantees of their own.

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