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Record W4415748259 · doi:10.1109/tnnls.2025.3622100

Spectral Embedding Representation Based on Random Anchor Graph Aggregation

2025· article· en· W4415748259 on OpenAlexaff
Jie Zhou, Fengkai Li, Can Gao, Weiping Ding, Witold Pedrycz, Guangming Lang

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicFace and Expression Recognition
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Research Foundation
KeywordsEmbeddingCluster analysisGraphRandom walkSpectral clusteringRepresentation (politics)Graph embeddingSampling (signal processing)

Abstract

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Anchor-based strategies have been widely used to accelerate spectral clustering, yet their effectiveness is directly affected by the quality of the selected anchors. Random sampling has become one of the most important anchor determination methods due to its efficiency. However, the anchors obtained by a single random sampling often fail to adequately capture the topological structure of the original data, making it difficult for the constructed anchor graph to achieve satisfactory clustering performance. To solve this problem, we propose a novel spectral embedding representation model based on random anchor graph aggregation (RAGA), in which an aggregated anchor graph can be produced to obtain enhanced sample representation capability. Specifically, we perform multiple random samplings to make the distribution of the selected anchors approximate the original data within a reasonable sampling time. Subsequently, adaptive weighted learning is performed on the contribution of the constructed multiple anchor graphs, and then an aggregated anchor graph can be formed, which can portray the topological structure of the original samples more precisely. In addition, spectral embedding and spectral rotation are integrated into a joint learning framework to reduce the model learning error accumulation caused by the traditional two-stage framework. Notably, we propose a rigorous theorem for analyzing the approximation of samples by the selected anchors in multiple random samplings. Our proposed RAGA maintains the speed advantage of random sampling while obtaining a high-quality aggregated anchor graph, enabling it to handle large-scale data scenarios. Experimental results on several benchmark datasets show that the RAGA model outperforms other state-of-the-art (SOTA) anchor graph-based clustering methods.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.007

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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