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Activity Number: 131
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 1, 2016 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Abstract #318873 View Presentation
Title: Orthogonal Symmetric Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Under Stochastic Block Model
Author(s): Subhadeep Paul* and Yuguo Chen
Companies: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keywords: Community detection ; Invariant subspaces ; Non-negative matrix factorization ; Stochastic block model
Abstract:

In this article we propose a method based on the Orthogonal symmetric non-negative matrix tri-factorization (OSNTF) of the laplacian matrix for community detection in complex networks. We establish the connection of the factors obtained through this factorization to a non-negative basis of an invariant subspace of the matrix. Using such factorization for clustering is motivated by analyzing a block-diagonal laplacian matrix with the blocks representing the connected components of a graph. The method is shown to be consistent for community detection in graphs generated from the stochastic block model (SBM) and the degree corrected stochastic block model (DCSBM). Simulation results and real data analysis show the effectiveness of these methods under a wide variety of situations including highly sparse and highly heterogeneous graphs where the usual spectral clustering is known to fail.


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