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Coresets have become an invaluable tool for solving $k$-means and kernel $k$-means clustering problems on large datasets with small numbers of clusters. On the other hand, spectral clustering works well on sparse graphs and has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ben Jourdan , Gregory Schwartzman , Peter Macgregor , He Sun

Graph Laplacians computed from weighted adjacency matrices are widely used to identify geometric structure in data, and clusters in particular; their spectral properties play a central role in a number of unsupervised and semi-supervised…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Franca Hoffmann , Bamdad Hosseini , Assad A. Oberai , Andrew M. Stuart

An efficient and relatively fast algorithm for the detection of communities in complex networks is introduced. The method exploits spectral properties of the graph Laplacian-matrix combined with hierarchical-clustering techniques, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Donetti , Miguel A. Munoz

Convex clustering is an attractive clustering algorithm with favorable properties such as efficiency and optimality owing to its convex formulation. It is thought to generalize both k-means clustering and agglomerative clustering. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-19 Canh Hao Nguyen , Hiroshi Mamitsuka

Spectral clustering is a powerful method for finding structure in a dataset through the eigenvectors of a similarity matrix. It often outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as $k$-means when the structure of the individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Paola Favati , Grazia Lotti , Ornella Menchi , Francesco Romani

Clustering the nodes of a graph is a cornerstone of graph analysis and has been extensively studied. However, some popular methods are not suitable for very large graphs: e.g., spectral clustering requires the computation of the spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Etienne Lasalle , Rémi Vaudaine , Titouan Vayer , Pierre Borgnat , Rémi Gribonval , Paulo Gonçalves , Màrton Karsai

We outline a novel clustering scheme for simplicial complexes that produces clusters of simplices in a way that is sensitive to the homology of the complex. The method is inspired by, and can be seen as a higher-dimensional version of,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Stefania Ebli , Gard Spreemann

Spectral clustering is one of the most widely used techniques for extracting the underlying global structure of a data set. Compressed sensing and matrix completion have emerged as prevailing methods for efficiently recovering sparse and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-05 Blake Hunter , Thomas Strohmer

The k-means algorithm is a partitional clustering method. Over 60 years old, it has been successfully used for a variety of problems. The popularity of k-means is in large part a consequence of its simplicity and efficiency. In this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Ognjen Arandjelovic

Graph clustering aims at discovering a natural grouping of the nodes such that similar nodes are assigned to a common cluster. Many different algorithms have been proposed in the literature: for simple graphs, for graphs with attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ylli Sadikaj , Yllka Velaj , Sahar Behzadi , Claudia Plant

One of the most prominent challenges in clustering is "the user's dilemma," which is the problem of selecting an appropriate clustering algorithm for a specific task. A formal approach for addressing this problem relies on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Margareta Ackerman , Shai Ben-David , Simina Brânzei , David Loker

Graph clustering or community detection constitutes an important task for investigating the internal structure of graphs, with a plethora of applications in several domains. Traditional techniques for graph clustering, such as spectral…

We study the statistical and computational properties of a network Lasso method for local graph clustering. The clusters delivered by nLasso can be characterized elegantly via network flows between cluster boundary and seed nodes. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Alexander Jung , Yasmin SarcheshmehPour

We present a structural clustering algorithm for large-scale datasets of small labeled graphs, utilizing a frequent subgraph sampling strategy. A set of representatives provides an intuitive description of each cluster, supports the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Till Schäfer , Petra Mutzel

The extraction of clusters from a dataset which includes multiple clusters and a significant background component is a non-trivial task of practical importance. In image analysis this manifests for example in anomaly detection and target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Xiuyuan Cheng , Gal Mishne

In this work a robust clustering algorithm for stationary time series is proposed. The algorithm is based on the use of estimated spectral densities, which are considered as functional data, as the basic characteristic of stationary time…

Clustering is one of the most fundamental and wide-spread techniques in exploratory data analysis. Yet, the basic approach to clustering has not really changed: a practitioner hand-picks a task-specific clustering loss to optimize and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yibo Jiang , Nakul Verma

In this thesis, we propose several modelling strategies to tackle evolving data in different contexts. In the framework of static clustering, we start by introducing a soft kernel spectral clustering (SKSC) algorithm, which can better deal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Rocco Langone

Spectral clustering and diffusion maps are celebrated dimensionality reduction algorithms built on eigen-elements related to the diffusive structure of the data. The core of these procedures is the approximation of a Laplacian through a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-15 Loucas Pillaud-Vivien , Francis Bach

Among community detection methods, spectral clustering enjoys two desirable properties: computational efficiency and theoretical guarantees of consistency. Most studies of spectral clustering consider only the edges of a network as input to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-18 Jonathan Hehir , Xiaoyue Niu , Aleksandra Slavkovic