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Convergence of a Steepest Descent Algorithm for Ratio Cut Clustering
Mathematics Faculty Works
  • Xavier Bresson, City University of Hong Kong
  • Thomas Laurent, Loyola Marymount University
  • David Uminsky, University of California, Los Angeles
  • James H. von Brecht, University of California, Los Angeles
Document Type
Article - pre-print
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Disciplines
Abstract

Unsupervised clustering of scattered, noisy and high-dimensional data points is an important and difficult problem. Tight continuous relaxations of balanced cut problems have recently been shown to provide excellent clustering results. In this paper, we present an explicit-implicit gradient flow scheme for the relaxed ratio cut problem, and prove that the algorithm converges to a critical point of the energy. We also show the efficiency of the proposed algorithm on the two moons dataset.

Citation Information
X. Bresson, T. Laurent, D. Uminsky, and J. von Brecht. Convergence of a Steepest Descent Algorithm for Ratio Cut Clustering, 2012. Unpublished.