Local Correlation Clustering with Asymmetric Classification Errors
In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a complete weighted graph G with its edges labeled as "similar" and "dissimilar" by a noisy binary classifier. For a clustering ๐ of graph G, a similar edge is in disagreement with ๐, if its endpoints belong to distinct clusters; and a dissimilar edge is in disagreement with ๐ if its endpoints belong to the same cluster. The disagreements vector, dis, is a vector indexed by the vertices of G such that the v-th coordinate dis_v equals the weight of all disagreeing edges incident on v. The goal is to produce a clustering that minimizes the โ_p norm of the disagreements vector for pโฅ 1. We study the โ_p objective in Correlation Clustering under the following assumption: Every similar edge has weight in the range of [ฮฑ๐ฐ,๐ฐ] and every dissimilar edge has weight at least ฮฑ๐ฐ (where ฮฑโค 1 and ๐ฐ>0 is a scaling parameter). We give an O((1/ฮฑ)^1/2-1/2pยทlog1/ฮฑ) approximation algorithm for this problem. Furthermore, we show an almost matching convex programming integrality gap.
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