Yue Yang;Guodong Li;Dongxu Li;Jun Zhang;Pengwei Hu;Lun Hu
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Abstract
Attributed graph clustering is of significance for an in-depth understanding of the intrinsic organization of complex networks. Recently, owing to the powerful learning capability of deep neural networks, increasing attention has been paid to developing more advanced deep learning approaches for attributed graph clustering. However, these approaches mainly focus on the purpose of obtaining general node representations, followed by clustering as a downstream task in combination with traditional techniques. Intuitively, the clustering performance is further limited due to the lack of achieving the desirable clustering quality in the graph representation learning process. To this end, this paper proposes a novel end-to-end attributed graph clustering model, namely FCGCN, by integrating fuzzy clustering and graph convolution network. FCGCN is trained toward optimizing an unsupervised fuzzy-based clustering objective, which is specifically formulated for precisely evaluating the clustering quality by considering the fuzzy memberships of nodes over clusters. To avoid the generation of undesirable clusters, we introduce a tailored regularization term by alleviating the over-smoothing issue on graph neural networks. By doing so, an explicit connection between graph representation learning and clustering can thus be established, considerably improving the clustering performance. To evaluate the performance of FCGCN, extensive experiments are conducted on a total of five real attributed graph datasets, and the results demonstrate the superiority of FCGCN over several state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
期刊介绍:
The proposed journal, called the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), is committed to timely publishing of peer-reviewed technical articles that deal with the theory and applications of network science and the interconnections among the elements in a system that form a network. In particular, the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering publishes articles on understanding, prediction, and control of structures and behaviors of networks at the fundamental level. The types of networks covered include physical or engineered networks, information networks, biological networks, semantic networks, economic networks, social networks, and ecological networks. Aimed at discovering common principles that govern network structures, network functionalities and behaviors of networks, the journal seeks articles on understanding, prediction, and control of structures and behaviors of networks. Another trans-disciplinary focus of the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering is the interactions between and co-evolution of different genres of networks.