Pub Date : 2026-02-15Epub Date: 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.028
Dongjin Choi, Haesun Park
Clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis, essential for discovering patterns and groupings in data. When dealing with multi-type data, where entities of different types are interrelated, clustering becomes more complex and requires specialized methods. Most existing clustering approaches focus on a single type of entity, potentially overlooking the rich interactions between different types. Co-clustering methods address this limitation by simultaneously clustering multiple types of entities, exploiting their interrelationships. However, current co-clustering methods may not fully capture the multi-granularity structures present in many real-world data sets, where clusters exist at varying levels of granularity.
To address this issue, we propose MG-NMF (Multi-Granularity Nonnegative Matrix Factorization), a method for multi-granularity co-clustering of multi-type data. MG-NMF integrates both intra-type and inter-type relationships through embedding entities of different types into a shared low-dimensional space. By taking as input an integrated symmetric similarity matrix that encodes the relationships among all entity types, MG-NMF simultaneously considers intra-type similarities within each type and inter-type similarities across different types. Furthermore, the framework incorporates a multi-granularity perspective, enabling the discovery of cluster structures at varying levels of granularity, from broader to more refined groupings.
The proposed method employs a symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization to obtain nonnegative embeddings in a shared space. The nonnegativity constraint ensures interpretability and captures the inherent clustering structure of the data. We present an optimization procedure based on block coordinate descent and provide convergence analysis.
We evaluate the proposed method on real-world data sets, including a hierarchical data set of scholarly entities. Experimental results indicate that MG-NMF captures hierarchical relationships between clusters at different granularity levels and achieves high-quality clustering performance. MG-NMF offers a unified framework for multi-granularity co-clustering of multi-type data, providing insights into the complex structures of real-world data sets.
聚类是数据分析中的一项基本任务,对于发现数据中的模式和分组至关重要。当处理多类型数据时,不同类型的实体是相互关联的,聚类变得更加复杂,需要专门的方法。大多数现有的聚类方法关注于单一类型的实体,可能忽略了不同类型之间的丰富交互。协同聚类方法通过同时聚类多种类型的实体,利用它们的相互关系来解决这一限制。然而,当前的共聚类方法可能无法完全捕获许多真实数据集中存在的多粒度结构,其中集群以不同的粒度级别存在。为了解决这个问题,我们提出了一种多类型数据的多粒度共聚类方法MG-NMF (Multi-Granularity non - negative Matrix Factorization)。MG-NMF通过将不同类型的实体嵌入到共享的低维空间中,整合了类型内关系和类型间关系。MG-NMF以编码所有实体类型之间关系的集成对称相似度矩阵为输入,同时考虑每种类型内的类型相似度和不同类型间的类型相似度。此外,该框架还包含了一个多粒度透视图,允许在不同粒度级别上发现集群结构,从更广泛的到更精细的分组。该方法采用对称非负矩阵分解来获得共享空间中的非负嵌入。非负性约束确保了数据的可解释性,并捕获了数据固有的聚类结构。提出了一种基于分块坐标下降的优化方法,并给出了收敛性分析。我们在真实世界的数据集上评估了所提出的方法,包括学术实体的分层数据集。实验结果表明,MG-NMF捕获了不同粒度级别聚类之间的层次关系,获得了高质量的聚类性能。MG-NMF为多类型数据的多粒度共聚类提供了一个统一的框架,提供了对现实世界数据集复杂结构的见解。
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.037
Simona Settepanella , So Yamagata
The discriminantal arrangement is the space of configurations of n hyperplanes in generic position in a k-dimensional space. Unlike the case , where it coincides with the well-known braid arrangement, the discriminantal arrangement for has a combinatorial structure that depends on the choice of the original n hyperplanes. It is known that this combinatorics remains constant on a Zariski-open set , but determining whether a given configuration of n generic hyperplanes belongs to has proved to be a nontrivial problem. Even providing explicit examples of configurations not contained in remains a challenging task. In this paper, building on a recent result by the present authors, we introduce the notion of weak linear independence among sets of vectors, which, when imposed, allows us to construct configurations of hyperplanes not lying in . We also present three explicit examples illustrating this construction.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.025
Xinhui Duan, Lu Lu
The spectral Turán number denotes the maximum spectral radius of an F-free graph G of order n. This paper determines for sufficiently large n, establishing the unique extremal graph. Here, is the odd prism, which is the Cartesian product , where the Cartesian product has vertex set , and edges between and if either and , or and .
{"title":"Spectral extremal problem for the odd prism","authors":"Xinhui Duan, Lu Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The spectral Turán number <span><math><mtext>spex</mtext><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>F</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> denotes the maximum spectral radius <span><math><mi>λ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> of an <em>F</em>-free graph <em>G</em> of order <em>n</em>. This paper determines <span><math><mtext>spex</mtext><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><msubsup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mi>k</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>□</mo></mrow></msubsup><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span> for sufficiently large <em>n</em>, establishing the unique extremal graph. Here, <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mi>k</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>□</mo></mrow></msubsup></math></span> is the odd prism, which is the Cartesian product <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mi>k</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>□</mo><msub><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>, where the Cartesian product <span><math><mi>G</mi><mo>□</mo><mi>F</mi></math></span> has vertex set <span><math><mi>V</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>×</mo><mi>V</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>F</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>, and edges between <span><math><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span> and <span><math><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span> if either <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><msub><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub><mo>∈</mo><mi>E</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>F</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>, or <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><msub><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><msub><mrow><mi>u</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub><mo>∈</mo><mi>E</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18043,"journal":{"name":"Linear Algebra and its Applications","volume":"730 ","pages":"Pages 276-296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145418516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.022
Frederik vom Ende , Dariusz Chruściński , Gen Kimura , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi
We prove an upper bound on the trace of any 2-positive, trace-preserving map in terms of its smallest eigenvalue. We show that this spectral bound is tight, and that 2-positivity is necessary for this inequality to hold in general. Moreover, we use this to infer a similar bound for generators of one-parameter semigroups of 2-positive trace-preserving maps. With this approach we generalize known results for completely positive trace-preserving dynamics while providing a significantly simpler proof that is entirely algebraic.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.010
Juan C. Gutierrez Fernandez , E.O. Quintero Vanegas
In our article Nilpotent Linear Spaces and Albert's Problem [Linear Algebra Appl. 518 (2017) 57–78], the proof of Theorem 6 was incomplete, as a case was omitted. Here we supply the missing argument. The statement of Theorem 6, and all subsequent results depending on it, remain valid.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-17DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.016
Ya-Nan Zheng
Let be the adjacency tensor of a k-uniform hypergraph H. The nullity of H is the multiplicity of the eigenvalue zero in the spectrum of H, i.e., the algebraic multiplicity of the eigenvalue zero of . A connected and acyclic hypergraph is called a hypertree. In this paper, by exploring the relationship between the nullity of k-uniform hypertrees and the nullity of their subhypergraphs, we study the extremal nullity of k-uniform hypertrees. We prove that the k-uniform hyperstar attains uniquely the maximum nullity among all k-uniform hypertrees with m edges.
{"title":"Uniform hypertrees with maximum nullity","authors":"Ya-Nan Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Let <span><math><mi>A</mi></math></span> be the adjacency tensor of a <em>k</em>-uniform hypergraph <em>H</em>. The nullity of <em>H</em> is the multiplicity of the eigenvalue zero in the spectrum of <em>H</em>, i.e., the algebraic multiplicity of the eigenvalue zero of <span><math><mi>A</mi></math></span>. A connected and acyclic hypergraph is called a hypertree. In this paper, by exploring the relationship between the nullity of <em>k</em>-uniform hypertrees and the nullity of their subhypergraphs, we study the extremal nullity of <em>k</em>-uniform hypertrees. We prove that the <em>k</em>-uniform hyperstar <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>k</mi></mrow></msubsup></math></span> attains uniquely the maximum nullity among all <em>k</em>-uniform hypertrees with <em>m</em> edges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18043,"journal":{"name":"Linear Algebra and its Applications","volume":"730 ","pages":"Pages 138-151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145364995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.034
Daniel A. Jaume , Cristian Panelo , Maikon M. Toledo , Micaela E. Vega
In this work we show, through the null decomposition of unicyclic graphs given by Allem et al. (2020), that the core-nilpotent decomposition of the adjacency matrix of a unicyclic graph, can be obtained directly from the graph itself.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-10-27DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.026
Rabi Marzouki, Khalid Souilah
In this article, we provide a complete description of all maps on the algebra of all bounded linear operators acting on an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space, that leave invariant the ascent, or descent, under the product of two operators.
{"title":"Non-linear maps preserving ascent or descent of product of operators","authors":"Rabi Marzouki, Khalid Souilah","doi":"10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article, we provide a complete description of all maps on the algebra of all bounded linear operators acting on an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space, that leave invariant the ascent, or descent, under the product of two operators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18043,"journal":{"name":"Linear Algebra and its Applications","volume":"730 ","pages":"Pages 344-357"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145418522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.11.001
Jakub Koncki , Richárd Rimányi
We provide an explicit description of the maximal-dimensional components of the variety parametrizing sequences of matrices of prescribed sizes whose product is zero.
我们给出了乘积为零的规定大小矩阵的各种参数化序列的最大维分量的显式描述。
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Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2025.10.036
Jian Zheng , Yongtao Li , Honghai Li
<div><div>The well-known Turán theorem states that if <em>G</em> is an <em>n</em>-vertex <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>-free graph, then <span><math><mi>e</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>≤</mo><mi>e</mi><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>r</mi></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span>, with equality if and only if <em>G</em> is the <em>r</em>-partite Turán graph <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>r</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>. A graph <em>F</em> is called color-critical if it contains an edge whose deletion reduces its chromatic number. Extending the Turán theorem, Simonovits (1968) proved that for any color-critical graph <em>F</em> with <span><math><mi>χ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>F</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>=</mo><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></math></span> and sufficiently large <em>n</em>, the Turán graph <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>r</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> is the unique graph that attains the maximum number of edges over all <em>n</em>-vertex <em>F</em>-free graphs. Subsequently, Nikiforov (2009) <span><span>[40]</span></span> proved a spectral version of Simonovits' theorem in terms of the adjacency spectral radius. In this paper, we show an extension of Simonovits' theorem for the signless Laplacian spectral radius. We prove that for any color-critical graph <em>F</em> with <span><math><mi>χ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>F</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>=</mo><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>≥</mo><mn>4</mn></math></span>, if <em>n</em> is sufficiently large and <em>G</em> is an <em>F</em>-free graph on <em>n</em> vertices, then <span><math><mi>q</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>≤</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>r</mi></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span>, with equality if and only if <span><math><mi>G</mi><mo>=</mo><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>r</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>. Our approach is to establish a signless Laplacian spectral version of the criterion of Keevash, Lenz and Mubayi (2014) <span><span>[26]</span></span>. Consequently, we determine the signless Laplacian spectral extremal graphs for generalized books and even wheels. As an application, our result gives an upper bound on the degree power of an <em>F</em>-free graph. We show that if <em>n</em> is sufficiently large and <em>G</em> is an <em>F</em>-free graph on <em>n</em> vertices with <em>m</em> edges, then <span><math><msub><mrow><mo>∑</mo></mrow><mrow><mi>v</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>V</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></msub><msup><mrow><mi>d</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>(</mo><mi>v</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>≤</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>−</mo><mfrac><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>r</mi></mrow></mfrac><mo>)</mo><mi>m</mi><mi>n</mi></math></span>, with equality if and only if <em>G</em> is a regular T
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