
arXiv: 2412.13592
Clustering the nodes of a graph is a cornerstone of graph analysis and has been extensively studied. However, some popular methods are not suitable for very large graphs: e.g., spectral clustering requires the computation of the spectral decomposition of the Laplacian matrix, which is not applicable for large graphs with a large number of communities. This work introduces PASCO, an overlay that accelerates clustering algorithms. Our method consists of three steps: 1-We compute several independent small graphs representing the input graph by applying an efficient and structure-preserving coarsening algorithm. 2-A clustering algorithm is run in parallel onto each small graph and provides several partitions of the initial graph. 3-These partitions are aligned and combined with an optimal transport method to output the final partition. The PASCO framework is based on two key contributions: a novel global algorithm structure designed to enable parallelization and a fast, empirically validated graph coarsening algorithm that preserves structural properties. We demonstrate the strong performance of 1 PASCO in terms of computational efficiency, structural preservation, and output partition quality, evaluated on both synthetic and real-world graph datasets.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Statistics - Machine Learning, Optimal Transport, Graph Coarsening, Large-Scale Networks, Machine Learning (stat.ML), [INFO.INFO-LG] Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG], Graph Analysis Community Detection Large-Scale Networks Graph Coarsening Optimal Transport, Community Detection, Graph Analysis, [STAT.ML] Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], Machine Learning (cs.LG)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Statistics - Machine Learning, Optimal Transport, Graph Coarsening, Large-Scale Networks, Machine Learning (stat.ML), [INFO.INFO-LG] Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG], Graph Analysis Community Detection Large-Scale Networks Graph Coarsening Optimal Transport, Community Detection, Graph Analysis, [STAT.ML] Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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