Regularized spectral clustering in overlapping networks
摘要
Community detection in network analysis has been an attractive research area recently. Here, we consider the problem of estimating community memberships of nodes in an overlapping network. Considering the degree heterogeneity, the degree-corrected mixed membership model is used to generate networks. To estimate network memberships, we propose a spectral clustering approach, termed Spectral Clustering for Mixed Membership, based on an ideal cone structure of the variant for the eigendecomposition of the regularized Laplacian matrix. We show the asymptotic consistency of our algorithm under mild assumptions by providing error bounds for the inferred membership vectors of each node. Numerical results on empirical networks demonstrate that our method enjoys competitive performances with some benchmark methods for estimating network memberships.