Quadratic problem formulation with linear constraints for normalized cut clustering

Abstract

This work describes a novel quadratic formulation for solving the normalized cuts-based clustering problem as an alternative to spectral clustering approaches. Such formulation is done by establishing simple and suitable constraints, which are further relaxed in order to write a quadratic functional with linear constraints. As a meaningful result of this work, we accomplish a deterministic solution instead of using a heuristic search. Our method reaches comparable performance against conventional spectral methods, but spending significantly lower processing time.