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Finding Cheeger Cuts via 1-Laplacian of Graphs
Wei Zhu

Numer. Math. Theor. Meth. Appl. DOI: 10.4208/nmtma.OA-2024-0051

Publication Date : 2024-12-06

  • Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for finding Cheeger cuts via 1-Laplacian of graphs. In [6], Chang introduced the theory of 1-Laplacian of graphs and built the connection between searching for the Cheeger cut of an undirected and unweighted graph and finding the first nonzero eigenvalue of 1-Laplacian, the latter of which is equivalent to solving a constrained non-convex optimization problem. We develop an alternating direction method of multipliers based algorithm to solve the optimization problem. We also prove that the generated sequence is bounded and it thus has a convergent subsequence. To find the goal optimal solution to the problem, we apply the proposed algorithm using different initial guesses and select the cut with the smallest cut value as the desired cut. Experimental results are presented for typical graphs, including Petersen’s graph and Cockroach graphs, and the well-known Zachary karate club graph.

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