https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611977172.17
https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611977172.17
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https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611977172.17
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10.1137/1.9781611977172.17
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2022
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Ilya Amburg, Nate Veldt
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Ilya Amburg, Nate Veldt
In forming teams or groups, one often aims to balance expertise in a main focus area while also encouraging diversity of skills in each team. In this paper we model the problem of finding diverse groups of individuals who have expertise in a given task as a clustering problem on hypergraphs with heterogeneous edge types. Here, the hyperedge types encode past experience types of groups, and the output of the clustering is groups of individuals (nodes). Unlike complementary problems that seek to find fair or balanced clusters (e.g., in terms of some protected node attributes), our model encourages diversity of pastexperiencewithin these groups by striking a balance between experience and diversity with respect to node participation in edge types. We show that naive objectives lead to no diversity-experience tradeoff, which motivates our refined model based on regularizing an edge-based hypergraph clustering objective. While optimizing our objective is NP-hard, we design a 2-approximation algorithm that works for a more general class of problems where each node is allowed to have a preference for a particular cluster, and illustrate a technique for computing regularization strength bounds that reveal meaningful diversity/experience tradeoff regimes. We illustrate the utility of our framework on several real-life datasets – most notably to online review platform data – to curate sets of reviews for a given type of product which exhibit a tradeoff between reviewer experience, or familiarity with a product type, and experience, or the reviewer's tendency to also review related product types. In the setting allowing for node preferences, we show that our framework discovers sets of reviews sensitive to user preference.