Presentation 2018-08-09
Derivation and Experimental Evaluation of a Novel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Algorithm for Discovering Communities
Yoshito Usuzaka, Norikazu Takahashi,
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Abstract(in English) Community discovery is an important technique for a better understanding of the structure of a network. We consider the community discovery for a given directed network as the problem of partitioning the vertex set into some subsets, i.e., communities, such that two distinct subsets are connected by directed edges with a much higher density than average, or a much lower density than average. It is known that this can be formulated as a nonnegative matrix factorization problem. Also, an iterative algorithm for solving the problem has been developed. In this report, we derive a novel iterative algorithm for solving the same problem, and experimentally evaluate the convergence rate and the capability of discovering communities.
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Keyword(in English) directed network / community discovery / nonnegative matrix factorization / Cardano's method
Paper # NLP2018-64
Date of Issue 2018-08-01 (NLP)

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Committee NLP
Conference Date 2018/8/8(2days)
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Place (in English) Saiwai-cho Campus, Kagawa Univ.
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Chair Norikazu Takahashi(Okayama Univ.)
Vice Chair Hiroaki Kurokawa(Tokyo Univ. of Tech.)
Secretary Hiroaki Kurokawa(Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Masayuki Kimura(Kyoto Univ.) / Yutaka Shimada(Saitama Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Nonlinear Problems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Derivation and Experimental Evaluation of a Novel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Algorithm for Discovering Communities
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) directed network
Keyword(2) community discovery
Keyword(3) nonnegative matrix factorization
Keyword(4) Cardano's method
1st Author's Name Yoshito Usuzaka
1st Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Norikazu Takahashi
2nd Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
Date 2018-08-09
Paper # NLP2018-64
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) NLP-174
Page pp.pp.57-62(NLP),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-08-01 (NLP)