MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W4416051783 · doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2025.112693

Efficient spectral embedding representation approximation for large-scale data clustering

2025· article· en· W4416051783 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenuePattern Recognition · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicFace and Expression Recognition
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersBasic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong ProvinceScience and Technology Planning Project of Shenzhen MunicipalityNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsSpectral clusteringEmbeddingCluster analysisRepresentation (politics)Spectral spaceSimilarity (geometry)Eigenvalues and eigenvectorsMatrix (chemical analysis)Time complexity

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Spectral clustering is a prevalent clustering method in which an affinity matrix is constructed based on all samples (the number is n ), leading to high computational complexity and making it infeasible for dealing with large-scale data directly. In this study, we introduce an Approximate Spectral Embedding Representation method (ASER). By employing an anchor-based strategy, the spectral embedding representation of the selected anchors (the number is m , m ≪ n ) is used to approximate the spectral embedding representation of the original samples. Unlike available methods that approximate the similarity matrix based on an anchor graph, we directly implement the approximation in the spectral embedding space. Moreover, the properties of the formed anchor graph are inherited from the original space to the spectral embedding space. The time complexity of conducting spectral clustering is significantly reduced from O ( n 3 ) to be linear with respect to n , without relying on any acceleration operations for eigenvalue decomposition. Experimental results on toy examples and benchmark datasets with large sizes demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed model.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.984
Threshold uncertainty score0.560

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.056
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.275 · 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