arXiv:2510.12669cs.LGcs.DS2025-10NeurIPS被引 1

uniform采样也能保留图聚类结构,无需复杂预处理。

Structure-Aware Spectral Sparsification via Uniform Edge Sampling

  • 用均匀采样代替传统重要性采样,简化了图稀疏化流程。
  • 在结构比大时,采样 $O(γ^2 n /log n / ε^2)$ 条边可保聚类质量。
  • 首次证明均匀采样足以实现结构感知的谱聚类,适合大规模图分析。

谱聚类是图划分的基础方法,但依赖特征向量计算限制了其在大规模图上的扩展性。经典稀疏化方法通过按有效电阻比例采样边来保持谱性质,但需昂贵预处理估算电阻。本文研究均匀采样——一种简单、不依赖结构的策略——是否足以支撑谱聚类。主要结果表明:对于具有良好分离 $k$-聚类的图,由结构比 $Υ(k) = λ_{k+1} / ρ_G(k)$ 表征,均匀采样能保留用于聚类的谱子空间。具体而言,均匀采样 $O(γ^2 n \log n / ε^2)$ 条边,其中 $γ$ 为拉普拉斯条件数,所得稀疏化图的前 $(n-k)$ 维特征空间与簇指示向量近似正交。这确保谱嵌入忠实,聚类质量不变。分析引入了簇内边的新电阻界、秩 $(n-k)$ 有效电阻公式,以及针对主导特征空间的矩阵 Chernoff 界,从而完全绕过重要性采样。概念上,该结果将最近基于核压缩的聚类理论与谱稀疏化联系起来,表明在强可聚类条件下,即使均匀采样也具备结构感知能力。这是首个关于均匀采样足以实现结构保持谱聚类的可证明保证。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Spectral clustering is a fundamental method for graph partitioning, but its reliance on eigenvector computation limits scalability to massive graphs. Classical sparsification methods preserve spectral properties by sampling edges proportionally to their effective resistances, but require expensive preprocessing to estimate these resistances. We study whether uniform edge sampling-a simple, structure-agnostic strategy-can suffice for spectral clustering. Our main result shows that for graphs admitting a well-separated $k$-clustering, characterized by a large structure ratio $Υ(k) = λ_{k+1} / ρ_G(k)$, uniform sampling preserves the spectral subspace used for clustering. Specifically, we prove that uniformly sampling $O(γ^2 n \log n / ε^2)$ edges, where $γ$ is the Laplacian condition number, yields a sparsifier whose top $(n-k)$-dimensional eigenspace is approximately orthogonal to the cluster indicators. This ensures that the spectral embedding remains faithful, and clustering quality is preserved. Our analysis introduces new resistance bounds for intra-cluster edges, a rank-$(n-k)$ effective resistance formulation, and a matrix Chernoff bound adapted to the dominant eigenspace. These tools allow us to bypass importance sampling entirely. Conceptually, our result connects recent coreset-based clustering theory to spectral sparsification, showing that under strong clusterability, even uniform sampling is structure-aware. This provides the first provable guarantee that uniform edge sampling suffices for structure-preserving spectral clustering.

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