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Relaxation-Based Coarsening for Multilevel Hypergraph Partitioning
Multilevel partitioning methods that are inspired by principles of
multiscaling are the most powerful practical hypergraph partitioning solvers.
Hypergraph partitioning has many applications in disciplines ranging from
scientific computing to data science. In this paper we introduce the concept of
algebraic distance on hypergraphs and demonstrate its use as an algorithmic
component in the coarsening stage of multilevel hypergraph partitioning
solvers. The algebraic distance is a vertex distance measure that extends
hyperedge weights for capturing the local connectivity of vertices which is
critical for hypergraph coarsening schemes. The practical effectiveness of the
proposed measure and corresponding coarsening scheme is demonstrated through
extensive computational experiments on a diverse set of problems. Finally, we
propose a benchmark of hypergraph partitioning problems to compare the quality
of other solvers
Consistency of Spectral Hypergraph Partitioning under Planted Partition Model
Hypergraph partitioning lies at the heart of a number of problems in machine
learning and network sciences. Many algorithms for hypergraph partitioning have
been proposed that extend standard approaches for graph partitioning to the
case of hypergraphs. However, theoretical aspects of such methods have seldom
received attention in the literature as compared to the extensive studies on
the guarantees of graph partitioning. For instance, consistency results of
spectral graph partitioning under the stochastic block model are well known. In
this paper, we present a planted partition model for sparse random non-uniform
hypergraphs that generalizes the stochastic block model. We derive an error
bound for a spectral hypergraph partitioning algorithm under this model using
matrix concentration inequalities. To the best of our knowledge, this is the
first consistency result related to partitioning non-uniform hypergraphs.Comment: 35 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl
Network Density of States
Spectral analysis connects graph structure to the eigenvalues and
eigenvectors of associated matrices. Much of spectral graph theory descends
directly from spectral geometry, the study of differentiable manifolds through
the spectra of associated differential operators. But the translation from
spectral geometry to spectral graph theory has largely focused on results
involving only a few extreme eigenvalues and their associated eigenvalues.
Unlike in geometry, the study of graphs through the overall distribution of
eigenvalues - the spectral density - is largely limited to simple random graph
models. The interior of the spectrum of real-world graphs remains largely
unexplored, difficult to compute and to interpret.
In this paper, we delve into the heart of spectral densities of real-world
graphs. We borrow tools developed in condensed matter physics, and add novel
adaptations to handle the spectral signatures of common graph motifs. The
resulting methods are highly efficient, as we illustrate by computing spectral
densities for graphs with over a billion edges on a single compute node. Beyond
providing visually compelling fingerprints of graphs, we show how the
estimation of spectral densities facilitates the computation of many common
centrality measures, and use spectral densities to estimate meaningful
information about graph structure that cannot be inferred from the extremal
eigenpairs alone.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
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