A variational approach to the consistency of spectral clustering

DOI10.1016/J.ACHA.2016.09.003zbMath1396.49013arXiv1508.01928OpenAlexW2963111412MaRDI QIDQ723005

Nicolás García Trillos, Dejan Slepčev

Publication date: 30 July 2018

Published in: Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01928

zbMATH Keywords

gamma-convergenceDirichlet energyrandom geometric graphspectral clusteringpoint cloudgraph Laplaciandiscrete to continuum limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Existence of optimal solutions to problems involving randomness (49J55)

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