Summary of Spectral Clustering Of Categorical and Mixed-type Data Via Extra Graph Nodes, by Dylan Soemitro et al.
Spectral Clustering of Categorical and Mixed-type Data via Extra Graph Nodes
by Dylan Soemitro, Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a novel approach to incorporate both numerical and categorical information into the widely used spectral clustering algorithm, eliminating the need for data preprocessing or complex similarity functions. The proposed method adds extra nodes corresponding to categories, leading to an interpretable clustering objective function. This simple framework enables a linear-time spectral clustering algorithm for categorical-only data. The paper compares the performance of this algorithm with other related methods, demonstrating competitive performance and runtime. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Spectral clustering is a popular way to group similar things together. Usually, it’s used with numbers only, but sometimes we have both numbers and categories (like names or colors). This paper shows how to make spectral clustering work better with mixed data by adding special nodes that represent different categories. It also makes the algorithm faster and more efficient for certain types of data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Clustering * Objective function * Spectral clustering
