arXiv:2510.20220cs.LGcs.NA2025-10

提出新算法,让公平聚类更快更均衡。

Alternatives to the Laplacian for Scalable Spectral Clustering with Group Fairness Constraints

  • 用拉格朗日与SMW恒等式重构优化问题,替代传统拉普拉斯矩阵。
  • 在真实网络数据上实现比顶尖方法快一倍的计算速度,平衡度也提升一倍。
  • 适合需要高效且公平聚类的场景,如社交网络分析、用户分群。

近期研究致力于通过在算法设计中引入公平性约束来缓解聚类中的算法偏见。诸如差异影响、社区凝聚力和每群体成本等概念被用于实现公平结果。其中,组公平性(均衡)确保每个受保护群体在每个簇中按比例分布。然而,将均衡作为公平性指标融入谱聚类算法导致计算时间过长。本研究旨在通过拉格朗日方法和Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury(SMW)恒等式重构约束优化问题,提出Fair-SMW算法。Fair-SMW采用三种替代拉普拉斯矩阵的方法,具有不同谱间隙,生成多种变体,在保持与现有算法相当的均衡性的同时,显著提升运行效率。我们在随机块模型(SBM)下评估了Fair-SMW,使用真实网络数据集如LastFM、FacebookNet、Deezer和German进行测试。结果表明,该算法在计算时间上达到当前最优方法的两倍加速,同时在均衡性上也实现两倍提升。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent research has focused on mitigating algorithmic bias in clustering by incorporating fairness constraints into algorithmic design. Notions such as disparate impact, community cohesion, and cost per population have been implemented to enforce equitable outcomes. Among these, group fairness (balance) ensures that each protected group is proportionally represented within every cluster. However, incorporating balance as a metric of fairness into spectral clustering algorithms has led to computational times that can be improved. This study aims to enhance the efficiency of spectral clustering algorithms by reformulating the constrained optimization problem using a new formulation derived from the Lagrangian method and the Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury (SMW) identity, resulting in the Fair-SMW algorithm. Fair-SMW employs three alternatives to the Laplacian matrix with different spectral gaps to generate multiple variations of Fair-SMW, achieving clustering solutions with comparable balance to existing algorithms while offering improved runtime performance. We present the results of Fair-SMW, evaluated using the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) to measure both runtime efficiency and balance across real-world network datasets, including LastFM, FacebookNet, Deezer, and German. We achieve an improvement in computation time that is twice as fast as the state-of-the-art, and also flexible enough to achieve twice as much balance.

谱聚类公平性算法优化

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