title: Generic, network schema agnostic sparse tensor factorization for single-pass clustering of heterogeneous information networks.
abstract: Heterogeneous information networks (e.g. bibliographic networks and social media networks) that consist of multiple interconnected objects are ubiquitous. Clustering analysis is an effective method to understand the semantic information and interpretable structure of the heterogeneous information networks, and it has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. However, most studies assume that heterogeneous information networks usually follow some simple schemas, such as bi-typed networks or star network schema, and they can only cluster one type of object in the network each time. In this paper, a novel clustering framework is proposed based on sparse tensor factorization for heterogeneous information networks, which can cluster multiple types of objects simultaneously in a single pass without any network schema information. The types of objects and the relations between them in the heterogeneous information networks are modeled as a sparse tensor. The clustering issue is modeled as an optimization problem, which is similar to the well-known Tucker decomposition. Then, an Alternating Least Squares (ALS) algorithm and a feasible initialization method are proposed to solve the optimization problem. Based on the tensor factorization, we simultaneously partition different types of objects into different clusters. The experimental results on both synthetic and real-world datasets have demonstrated that our proposed clustering framework, STFClus, can model heterogeneous information networks efficiently and can outperform state-of-the-art clustering algorithms as a generally applicable single-pass clustering method for heterogeneous network which is network schema agnostic.
authors.affiliation: Science and Technology on Information System Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, Hunan, China.
authors.forename: Jibing
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4016-0901
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Qinggang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.affiliation: Science and Technology on Information System Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, Hunan, China.
authors.forename: Su
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Science and Technology on Information System Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, Hunan, China.
authors.forename: Hongbin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Science and Technology on Information System Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, Hunan, China.
authors.forename: Yahui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Atta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Badii
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003625:Data Collection; D057225:Data Mining; D007255:Information Services; D016018:Least-Squares Analysis; D000069550:Machine Learning; D009040:Motion Pictures; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D013223:Statistics as Topic