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Consistency Of Cheeger And Ratio Graph Cuts, Nicolas Garcia Trillos, Dejan Slepcev, James Von Brecht, Thomas Laurent, Xavier Bresson
Consistency Of Cheeger And Ratio Graph Cuts, Nicolas Garcia Trillos, Dejan Slepcev, James Von Brecht, Thomas Laurent, Xavier Bresson
Thomas Laurent
This paper establishes the consistency of a family of graph-cut- based algorithms for clustering of data clouds. We consider point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. We investigate approaches to clustering based on minimizing objective functionals defined on proximity graphs of the given sample. Our focus is on functionals based on graph cuts like the Cheeger and ratio cuts. We show that minimizers of these cuts converge as the sample size increases to a minimizer of a corresponding continuum cut (which partitions the ground truth measure). Moreover, we obtain sharp conditions on how the connectivity radius can be …