A Notion of Harmonic Clustering in Simplicial Complexes

@article{Ebli2019ANO,
  title={A Notion of Harmonic Clustering in Simplicial Complexes},
  author={Stefania Ebli and Gard Spreemann},
  journal={2019 18th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications (ICMLA)},
  year={2019},
  pages={1083-1090}
}
  • Stefania EbliGard Spreemann
  • Published 16 October 2019
  • Computer Science
  • 2019 18th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications (ICMLA)
We outline a novel clustering scheme for simplicial complexes that produces clusters of simplices in a way that is sensitive to the homology of the complex. The method is inspired by, and can be seen as a higher-dimensional version of, graph spectral clustering. The algorithm involves only sparse eigenproblems, and is therefore computationally efficient. We believe that it has broad application as a way to extract features from simplicial complexes that often arise in topological data analysis. 
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