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Spectrally Approximating Large Graphs with Smaller Graphs
Andreas Loukas · Pierre Vandergheynst

Fri Jul 13 09:15 AM -- 12:00 PM (PDT) @ Hall B #61
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How does coarsening affect the spectrum of a general graph? We provide conditions such that the principal eigenvalues and eigenspaces of a coarsened and original graph Laplacian matrices are close. The achieved approximation is shown to depend on standard graph-theoretic properties, such as the degree and eigenvalue distributions, as well as on the ratio between the coarsened and actual graph sizes. Our results carry implications for learning methods that utilize coarsening. For the particular case of spectral clustering, they imply that coarse eigenvectors can be used to derive good quality assignments even without refinement—this phenomenon was previously observed, but lacked formal justification.

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Andreas Loukas (EPFL)
Pierre Vandergheynst (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

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