Semidefinite Spectral Clustering

준정부호 스펙트럼의 군집화

Graph partitioning provides an important tool for data clustering, but is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Spectral clustering where the clustering is performed by the eigen-decomposition of an affinity matrix [1,2]. This is a popular way of solving the graph partitioning problem. On the other hand, semidefinite relaxation, is an alternative way of relaxing combinatorial optimization. issuing to a convex optimization[4]. In this paper we present a semidefinite programming (SDP) approach to graph equi-partitioning for clustering and then we use eigen-decomposition to obtain an optimal partition set. Therefore, the method is referred to as semidefinite spectral clustering (SSC). Numerical experiments with several artificial and real data sets, demonstrate the useful behavior of our SSC. compared to existing spectral clustering methods.