Empirical Inference Technical Report 2005

A Combinatorial View of Graph Laplacians

Discussions about different graph Laplacian, mainly normalized and unnormalized versions of graph Laplacian, have been ardent with respect to various methods in clustering and graph based semi-supervised learning. Previous research on graph Laplacians investigated their convergence properties to Laplacian operators on continuous manifolds. There is still no strong proof on convergence for the normalized Laplacian. In this paper, we analyze different variants of graph Laplacians directly from the ways solving the original graph partitioning problem. The graph partitioning problem is a well-known combinatorial NP hard optimization problem. The spectral solutions provide evidence that normalized Laplacian encodes more reasonable considerations for graph partitioning. We also provide some examples to show their differences.

Author(s): Huang, J.
Number (issue): 144
Year: 2005
Month: August
Day: 28
Bibtex Type: Technical Report (techreport)
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive
Institution: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

BibTex

@techreport{3534,
  title = {A Combinatorial View of Graph Laplacians},
  abstract = {Discussions about different graph Laplacian, mainly normalized and
  unnormalized versions of graph Laplacian, have been ardent with
  respect to various methods in clustering and graph based
  semi-supervised learning. Previous research on graph Laplacians
  investigated their convergence properties to Laplacian operators
  on continuous manifolds. There is still no strong proof on
  convergence for the normalized Laplacian. In this paper, we
  analyze different variants of graph Laplacians directly from the
  ways solving the original graph partitioning problem. The graph
  partitioning problem is a well-known combinatorial NP hard
  optimization problem. The spectral solutions provide evidence that
  normalized Laplacian encodes more reasonable considerations for
  graph partitioning. We also provide some examples to show their
  differences.},
  number = {144},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  institution = {Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, T{\"u}bingen, Germany},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  month = aug,
  year = {2005},
  slug = {3534},
  author = {Huang, J.},
  month_numeric = {8}
}