arXiv:2508.17388cs.LGcs.DB2025-08被引 2

提出高效聚类方法,解决大规模多关系图的低质量与高成本问题。

Effective Clustering for Large Multi-Relational Graphs

  • 分两阶段优化:先提升节点特征,再最小化聚类能量
  • 支持百万节点、十亿边规模,速度远超现有方法
  • 无需显式构建稠密相似矩阵,适合无属性图场景

多关系图(MRGs)是建模真实对象间复杂交互关系的重要数据结构,广泛应用于各类场景。给定包含 N 个节点的 MRG G,将其划分为 K 个不相交簇(即 MRGC)是分析的核心任务。然而,现有方法或因异构图结构与属性融合不足导致聚类质量下降,或因依赖复杂昂贵的深度学习模型难以处理含数百万节点、数十亿边的大规模图。本文提出 DEMM 与 DEMM+ 两种有效 MRGC 方法,基于新颖的两阶段优化目标:第一阶段通过专为 MRGs 设计的多关系狄利克雷能量优化,生成高质量节点特征向量;第二阶段在节点亲和图上最小化聚类结果的狄利克雷能量。DEMM+ 通过一系列精心设计的优化,在效率和可扩展性上显著优于基础方法。关键技术包括:(i) 高效近似求解器用于构建节点特征,(ii) 理论支撑的问题转换与技术,实现无需显式构造 NxN 稠密亲和矩阵的线性时间聚类。此外,通过非平凡适配,将 DEMM+ 扩展至无属性 MRGs。在 11 个真实 MRG 上对 20 个基线进行的大量实验表明,DEMM+ 在聚类质量(对比真实标签)上持续领先,且通常快得多。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multi-relational graphs (MRGs) are an expressive data structure for modeling diverse interactions/relations among real objects (i.e., nodes), which pervade extensive applications and scenarios. Given an MRG G with N nodes, partitioning the node set therein into K disjoint clusters (MRGC) is a fundamental task in analyzing MRGs, which has garnered considerable attention. However, the majority of existing solutions towards MRGC either yield severely compromised result quality by ineffective fusion of heterogeneous graph structures and attributes, or struggle to cope with sizable MRGs with millions of nodes and billions of edges due to the adoption of sophisticated and costly deep learning models. In this paper, we present DEMM and DEMM+, two effective MRGC approaches to address the limitations above. Specifically, our algorithms are built on novel two-stage optimization objectives, where the former seeks to derive high-caliber node feature vectors by optimizing the multi-relational Dirichlet energy specialized for MRGs, while the latter minimizes the Dirichlet energy of clustering results over the node affinity graph. In particular, DEMM+ achieves significantly higher scalability and efficiency over our based method DEMM through a suite of well-thought-out optimizations. Key technical contributions include (i) a highly efficient approximation solver for constructing node feature vectors, and (ii) a theoretically-grounded problem transformation with carefully-crafted techniques that enable linear-time clustering without explicitly materializing the NxN dense affinity matrix. Further, we extend DEMM+ to handle attribute-less MRGs through non-trivial adaptations. Extensive experiments, comparing DEMM+ against 20 baselines over 11 real MRGs, exhibit that DEMM+ is consistently superior in terms of clustering quality measured against ground-truth labels, while often being remarkably faster.

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