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  How the result of graph clustering methods depends on the construction of the graph

Maier, M., von Luxburg, U., & Hein, M. (2012). How the result of graph clustering methods depends on the construction of the graph. ESAIM: Probability and Statistics, Epub ahead. doi:10.1051/ps/2012001.

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Maier, M1, Author           
von Luxburg, U1, Author           
Hein, M, Author
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1Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497795              

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 Abstract: We study the scenario of graph-based clustering algorithms such as spectral clustering. Given a set of data points, one rst has to construct a graph on the data points and then apply a graph clustering algorithm to nd a suitable partition of the graph. Our main question is if and how the construction of the graph (choice of the graph, choice of parameters, choice of weights) in uences the outcome of the nal clustering result. To this end we study the convergence of cluster quality measures such as the normalized cut or the Cheeger cut on various kinds of random geometric graphs as the sample size tends to innity. It turns out that the limit values of the same objective function are systematically dierent on dierent types of graphs. This implies that clustering results systematically depend on the graph and can be very dierent for dierent types of graph. We provide examples to illustrate the implications on spectral clustering.

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