Finding Bipartite Components in Hypergraphs
This addresses the challenge of analyzing complex datasets with higher-order relations, representing an incremental improvement over existing methods.
The paper tackles the problem of finding bipartite components in hypergraphs by proposing a new heat diffusion process and a polynomial-time algorithm, which significantly outperforms the previous state-of-the-art in experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Hypergraphs are important objects to model ternary or higher-order relations of objects, and have a number of applications in analysing many complex datasets occurring in practice. In this work we study a new heat diffusion process in hypergraphs, and employ this process to design a polynomial-time algorithm that approximately finds bipartite components in a hypergraph. We theoretically prove the performance of our proposed algorithm, and compare it against the previous state-of-the-art through extensive experimental analysis on both synthetic and real-world datasets. We find that our new algorithm consistently and significantly outperforms the previous state-of-the-art across a wide range of hypergraphs.