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Rough Sets for Explainability of Spectral Graph Clustering

Machine Learning 2026-03-17 v3 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Graph Spectral Clustering methods (GSC) allow representing clusters of diverse shapes, densities, etc. However, the results of such algorithms, when applied e.g. to text documents, are hard to explain to the user, especially due to embedding in the spectral space which has no obvious relation to document contents. Furthermore, the presence of documents without clear content meaning and the stochastic nature of the clustering algorithms deteriorate explainability. This paper proposes an enhancement to the explanation methodology, proposed in an earlier research of our team. It allows us to overcome the latter problems by taking inspiration from rough set theory.

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@article{arxiv.2512.12436,
  title  = {Rough Sets for Explainability of Spectral Graph Clustering},
  author = {Bartłomiej Starosta and Sławomir T. Wierzchoń and Piotr Borkowski and Dariusz Czerski and Marcin Sydow and Eryk Laskowski and Mieczysław A. Kłopotek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12436},
  year   = {2026}
}

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