Graph Learning for Attributed Graph Clustering

Abstract

Due to the explosive growth of graph data, attributed graph clustering has received increasing attention recently. Although deep neural networks based graph clustering methods have achieved impressive performance, the huge amount of training parameters make them time-consuming and memory- intensive. Moreover, real-world graphs are often noisy or incomplete and are not optimal for the clustering task. To solve these problems, we design a graph learning framework for the attributed graph clustering task in this study. We firstly develop a shallow model for learning a fine-grained graph from smoothed data, which sufficiently exploits both node attributes and topology information. A regularizer is also designed to flexibly explore the high-order information hidden in the data. To further reduce the computation complexity, we then propose a linear method with respect to node number n, where a smaller graph is learned based on importance sampling strategy to select m(m≪n) anchors. Extensive experiments on six benchmark datasets demonstrate that our proposed methods are not only effective but also more efficient than state-of-the-art techniques. In particular, our method surpasses many recent deep learning approaches.