Deep Modularity Networks with Diversity--Preserving Regularization (2501.13451v1)

Abstract: Graph clustering plays a crucial role in graph representation learning but often faces challenges in achieving feature-space diversity. While Deep Modularity Networks (DMoN) leverage modularity maximization and collapse regularization to ensure structural separation, they do not explicitly encourage diversity in the feature space among clusters. We address this limitation by proposing Deep Modularity Networks with Diversity-Preserving Regularization (DMoN-DPR), which introduces three novel regularization terms: distance-based for inter-cluster separation, variance-based for intra-cluster diversity, and entropy-based for balanced assignments. Our method enhances clustering performance on benchmark datasets, namely Cora, CiteSeer, PubMed, Coauthor CS, and Coauthor Physics, achieving significant improvements in Normalized Mutual Information (NMI), and F1 scores. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of incorporating diversity-preserving regularizations in creating meaningful and interpretable clusters, especially in feature-rich datasets.