Stochastic local clustering for massive graphs

  • Authors:
  • Satu Elisa Schaeffer

  • Affiliations:
  • Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

  • Venue:
  • PAKDD'05 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Most graph-theoretical clustering algorithms require the complete adjacency relation of the graph representing the examined data. This is infeasible for very large graphs currently emerging in many application areas. We propose a local approach that computes clusters in graphs, one at a time, relying only on the neighborhoods of the vertices included in the current cluster candidate. This enables implementing a local and parameter-free algorithm. Approximate clusters may be identified quickly by heuristic methods. We report experimental results on clustering graphs using simulated annealing.