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Correlation Clustering Problem Under Mediation

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  • Zacharie Ales

    (Unité de Mathématiques Appliquées, École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France; Centre d’études et de recherche en informatique et communications, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 75003 Paris, France)

  • Céline Engelbeen

    (Laboratoire Quaresmi, Institut Catholique des Hautes Études Commerciales, Brussels, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium)

  • Rosa Figueiredo

    (Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon, Avignon Université, 84911 Avignon, France)

Abstract

In the context of community detection, correlation clustering (CC) provides a measure of balance for social networks as well as a tool to explore their structures. However, CC does not encompass features such as the mediation between the clusters, which could be all the more relevant with the recent rise of ideological polarization. In this work, we study correlation clustering under mediation (CCM), a new variant of CC in which a set of mediators is determined. This new signed graph clustering problem is proved to be NP-hard and formulated as an integer programming formulation. An extensive investigation of the mediation set structure leads to the development of two efficient exact enumeration algorithms for CCM. The first one exhaustively enumerates the maximal sets of mediators in order to provide several relevant solutions. The second algorithm implements a pruning mechanism, which drastically reduces the size of the exploration tree in order to return a single optimal solution. Computational experiments are presented on two sets of instances: signed networks representing voting activity in the European Parliament and random signed graphs.

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  • Zacharie Ales & Céline Engelbeen & Rosa Figueiredo, 2024. "Correlation Clustering Problem Under Mediation," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 36(2), pages 672-689, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orijoc:v:36:y:2024:i:2:p:672-689
    DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.2022.0129
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