Title
Constrained fractional set programs and their application in local clustering and community detection.
Abstract
The (constrained) minimization of a ratio of set functions is a problem frequently occurring in clustering and community detection. As these optimization problems are typically NP-hard, one uses convex or spectral relaxations in practice. While these relaxations can be solved globally optimally, they are often too loose and thus lead to results far away from the optimum. In this paper we show that every constrained minimization problem of a ratio of non-negative set functions allows a tight relaxation into an unconstrained continuous optimization problem. This result leads to a flexible framework for solving constrained problems in network analysis. While a globally optimal solution for the resulting non-convex problem cannot be guaranteed, we outperform the loose convex or spectral relaxations by a large margin on constrained local clustering problems.
Year
Venue
DocType
2013
international conference on machine learning
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1306.3409
1
0.39
References 
Authors
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Bühler11566.32
Rangapuram, Syama Sundar2584.45
Setzer, Simon321512.76
Matthias Hein466362.80