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Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Anna Mpanti , Fariba Ranjbar

Despite the fact that many important problems (including clustering) can be described using hypergraphs, theoretical foundations as well as practical algorithms using hypergraphs are not well developed yet. In this paper, we propose a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Bogumil Kaminski , Valerie Poulin , Pawel Pralat , Przemyslaw Szufel , Francois Theberge

Clustering a graph means identifying internally dense subgraphs which are only sparsely interconnected. Formalizations of this notion lead to measures that quantify the quality of a clustering and to algorithms that actually find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Robert Görke , Andrea Schumm , Dorothea Wagner

Deep clustering has recently emerged as a promising technique for complex data clustering. Despite the considerable progress, previous deep clustering works mostly build or learn the final clustering by only utilizing a single layer of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dong Huang , Ding-Hua Chen , Xiangji Chen , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

Common clustering algorithms require multiple scans of all the data to achieve convergence, and this is prohibitive when large databases, with data arriving in streams, must be processed. Some algorithms to extend the popular K-means method…

Applications · Statistics 2017-12-22 Giacomo Aletti , Alessandra Micheletti

K-Nearest-Neighbors (KNN) graphs are central to many emblematic data mining and machine-learning applications. Some of the most efficient KNN graph algorithms are incremental and local: they start from a random graph, which they…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-23 George Giakkoupis , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Olivier Ruas , François Taïani

The problem of clustering large complex networks plays a key role in several scientific fields ranging from Biology to Sociology and Computer Science. Many approaches to clustering complex networks are based on the idea of maximizing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

We present a novel algorithm, called Links, designed to perform online clustering on unit vectors in a high-dimensional Euclidean space. The algorithm is appropriate when it is necessary to cluster data efficiently as it streams in, and is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-31 Philip Andrew Mansfield , Quan Wang , Carlton Downey , Li Wan , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

In this paper, we consider sparse networks consisting of a finite number of non-overlapping communities, i.e. disjoint clusters, so that there is higher density within clusters than across clusters. Both the intra- and inter-cluster edge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Se-Young Yun , Marc Lelarge , Alexandre Proutiere

High-dimensional clustering often relies on geometric or local-similarity structure, but the dominant separation between groups may not always be location-based. Differences in dispersion can create asymmetric local-neighborhood patterns:…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-15 Hao Chen , Xiancheng Lin

Text clustering holds significant value across various domains due to its ability to identify patterns and group related information. Current approaches which rely heavily on a computed similarity measure between documents are often limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Laurence Hirsch , Robin Hirsch , Bayode Ogunleye

Clustering is a fundamental property of complex networks and it is the mathematical expression of a ubiquitous phenomenon that arises in various types of self-organized networks such as biological networks, computer networks or social…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Elisabetta Candellero , Nikolaos Fountoulakis

Unsupervised clustering, also known as natural clustering, stands for the classification of data according to their similarities. Here we study this problem from the perspective of complex networks. Mapping the description of data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-08-22 Clara Granell , Sergio Gomez , Alex Arenas

We present a global optimization algorithm for clustering data given the ratio of likelihoods that each pair of data points is in the same cluster or in different clusters. To define a clustering solution in terms of pairwise relationships,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Vijay Kumar , Dan Levy

We propose two related unsupervised clustering algorithms which, for input, take data assumed to be sampled from a uniform distribution supported on a metric space $X$, and output a clustering of the data based on the selection of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Antonio Rieser

In this paper, we present a cluster algorithm for the simulation of hard spheres and related systems. In this algorithm, a copy of the configuration is rotated with respect to a randomly chosen pivot point. The two systems are then…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Christophe Dress , Werner Krauth

Spatial clustering is a crucial field, finding universal use across criminology, pathology, and urban planning. However, most spatial clustering algorithms cannot pull information from nearby nodes and suffer performance drops when dealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Aidan Gao , Junhong Lin

Motivated by the fact that entities in a social network or biological system often interact by exchanging information, we propose an efficient info-clustering algorithm that can group entities into communities using a parametric max-flow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Chung Chan , Ali Al-Bashabsheh , Qiaoqiao Zhou

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Nikos Parotsidis , Jakub Tarnawski

This paper studies density-based clustering of point sets. These methods use dense regions of points to detect clusters of arbitrary shapes. In particular, we study variants of density peaks clustering, a popular type of algorithm that has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shangdi Yu , Joshua Engels , Yihao Huang , Julian Shun