Batch kernel SOM and related Laplacian methods for social network analysis

  • Authors:
  • Romain Boulet;Bertrand Jouve;Fabrice Rossi;Nathalie Villa

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut de Mathématiques, Université de Toulouse et CNRS (UMR 5219), 5 allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse cedex 9, France;Institut de Mathématiques, Université de Toulouse et CNRS (UMR 5219), 5 allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse cedex 9, France;Projet AxIS, INRIA Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay cedex, France;Institut de Mathématiques, Université de Toulouse et CNRS (UMR 5219), 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2008

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.01

Visualization

Abstract

Large graphs are natural mathematical models for describing the structure of the data in a wide variety of fields, such as web mining, social networks, information retrieval, biological networks, etc. For all these applications, automatic tools are required to get a synthetic view of the graph and to reach a good understanding of the underlying problem. In particular, discovering groups of tightly connected vertices and understanding the relations between those groups is very important in practice. This paper shows how a kernel version of the batch self-organizing map can be used to achieve these goals via kernels derived from the Laplacian matrix of the graph, especially when it is used in conjunction with more classical methods based on the spectral analysis of the graph. The proposed method is used to explore the structure of a medieval social network modelled through a weighted graph that has been directly built from a large corpus of agrarian contracts.