Simplifying Clustering with Graph Neural Networks

Authors

  • Filippo Maria Bianchi UiT the Arctic University of Norway & NORCE Norwegian Research Centre

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/18.6790

Keywords:

Graph Neural Networks, Graph Clustering, Spectral Clustering

Abstract

The objective functions used in spectral clustering are generally composed of two terms: i) a term that minimizes the local quadratic variation of the cluster assignments on the graph and; ii) a term that balances the clustering partition and helps avoiding degenerate solutions.
This paper shows that a graph neural network, equipped with suitable message passing layers, can generate good cluster assignments by optimizing only a balancing term.
Results on attributed graph datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed approach in terms of clustering performance and computation time.

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Published

2023-01-23