Accelerated spectral clustering using graph filtering of random signals

Nicolas Tremblay (1, 2, 3) , Gilles Puy (2) , Pierre Borgnat (3) , Rémi Gribonval (2) , Pierre Vandergheynst (1, 2)

1 LTS2 - EPFL
2 PANAMA - Parcimonie et Nouveaux Algorithmes pour le Signal et la Modélisation Audio
3 Phys-ENS - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon

We build upon recent advances in graph signal processing to propose a faster spectral clustering algorithm. Indeed, classical spectral clustering is based on the computation of the first k eigenvectors of the similarity matrix' Laplacian, whose computation cost, even for sparse matrices, becomes prohibitive for large datasets. We show that we can estimate the spectral clustering distance matrix without computing these eigenvectors: by graph filtering random signals. Also, we take advantage of the stochasticity of these random vectors to estimate the number of clusters k. We compare our method to classical spectral clustering on synthetic data, and show that it reaches equal performance while being faster by a factor at least two for large datasets.

Mots clés: Spectral clustering; graph signal processing; graph filtering

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Nicolas Tremblay, Gilles Puy, Pierre Borgnat, Rémi Gribonval, Pierre Vandergheynst. Accelerated spectral clustering using graph filtering of random signals. 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Mar 2016, Shanghai, China. ⟨hal-01243682v2⟩