Spectral clustering by recursive partitioning

  • Authors:
  • Anirban Dasgupta;John Hopcroft;Ravi Kannan;Pradipta Mitra

  • Affiliations:
  • Yahoo! Research Labs;Department of Computer Science, Cornell University;Department of Computer Science, Yale University;Department of Computer Science, Yale University

  • Venue:
  • ESA'06 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Annual European Symposium - Volume 14
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the second eigenvector technique of spectral partitioning on the planted partition random graph model, by constructing a recursive algorithm using the second eigenvectors in order to learn the planted partitions. The correctness of our algorithm is not based on the ratio-cut interpretation of the second eigenvector, but exploits instead the stability of the eigenvector subspace. As a result, we get an improved cluster separation bound in terms of dependence on the maximum variance. We also extend our results for a clustering problem in the case of sparse graphs.