Graph-based Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Local Clustering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19419v1
• Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:10:18 GMT
• Title: Graph-based Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Local Clustering
• Authors: Zhaiming Shen, Sung Ha Kang,
• Abstract summary: Local clustering aims to identify specific substructures within a large graph without requiring full knowledge of the entire graph.<n>We first propose a method for identifying specific local clusters when very few labeled data is given, which we term semi-supervised local clustering.<n>We then extend this approach to the unsupervised setting when no prior information on labels is available.
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• Abstract: Local clustering aims to identify specific substructures within a large graph without requiring full knowledge of the entire graph. These substructures are typically small compared to the overall graph, enabling the problem to be approached by finding a sparse solution to a linear system associated with the graph Laplacian. In this work, we first propose a method for identifying specific local clusters when very few labeled data is given, which we term semi-supervised local clustering. We then extend this approach to the unsupervised setting when no prior information on labels is available. The proposed methods involve randomly sampling the graph, applying diffusion through local cluster extraction, then examining the overlap among the results to find each cluster. We establish the co-membership conditions for any pair of nodes and rigorously prove the correctness of our methods. Additionally, we conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate that the proposed methods achieve state-of-the-arts results in the low-label rates regime.

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