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We consider the problem of graph generation guided by network statistics, i.e., the generation of graphs which have given values of various numerical measures that characterize networks, such as the clustering coefficient and the number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jérôme Kunegis , Jun Sun , Eiko Yoneki

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

Graph matching is a commonly used technique in computer vision and pattern recognition. Recent data-driven approaches have improved the graph matching accuracy remarkably, whereas some traditional algorithm-based methods are more robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Haoru Tan , Chuang Wang , Sitong Wu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu

Spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms are sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data. In particular if the data has proximal and unbalanced clusters these algorithms can lead to poor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-22 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama

Cluster deletion is an NP-hard graph clustering objective with applications in computational biology and social network analysis, where the goal is to delete a minimum number of edges to partition a graph into cliques. We first provide a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Vicente Balmaseda , Ying Xu , Yixin Cao , Nate Veldt

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis where the goal is to detect sets of nodes that are well-connected to each other but sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. We present faster approximation algorithms for an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Vedangi Bengali , Nate Veldt

Hypergraph clustering is a basic algorithmic primitive for analyzing complex datasets and systems characterized by multiway interactions, such as group email conversations, groups of co-purchased retail products, and co-authorship data.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Nate Veldt

Due to their computational complexity, graph cuts for cluster detection and identification are used mostly in the form of convex relaxations. We propose to utilize the original graph cuts such as Ratio, Normalized or Cheeger Cut to detect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Leo Suchan , Housen Li , Axel Munk

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

In this work, we propose a Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCN) based scheduling algorithm for adhoc networks. In particular, we consider a generalized interference model called the $k$-tolerant conflict graph model and design an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 S. Ramakrishnan , Jaswanthi Mandalapu , Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru , Bhavesh Jain , Eitan Altman

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-06 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

Spectral graph theory is well known and widely used in computer vision. In this paper, we analyze image segmentation algorithms that are based on spectral graph theory, e.g., normalized cut, and show that there is a natural connection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Chengxi Ye , Yuxu Lin , Mingli Song , Chun Chen , David W. Jacobs

Computing a graph prototype may constitute a core element for clustering or classification tasks. However, its computation is an NP-Hard problem, even for simple classes of graphs. In this paper, we propose an efficient approach based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Nicolas Boria , S'ebastien Bougleux , Benoit Gaüzère , Luc Brun

We study the problem of graph clustering under a broad class of objectives in which the quality of a cluster is defined based on the ratio between the number of edges in the cluster, and the total weight of vertices in the cluster. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Christian Sohler

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to the increasing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest. Scalability problems…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Kimon Fountoulakis , David F. Gleich , Michael W. Mahoney

Spectral clustering is a popular and versatile clustering method based on a relaxation of the normalised graph cut objective. Despite its popularity, however, there is no single agreed upon method for tuning the important scaling parameter,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 David Hofmeyr

The Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) model and its variants are powerful graph embedding tools for facilitating classification and clustering on graphs. However, a major challenge is to reduce the complexity of layered GCNs and make them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Hanqing Zeng , Hongkuan Zhou , Ajitesh Srivastava , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

The Normalized Cut (NCut) objective function, widely used in data clustering and image segmentation, quantifies the cost of graph partitioning in a way that biases clusters or segments that are balanced towards having lower values than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Nathan D. Cahill , Tyler L. Hayes , Renee T. Meinhold , John F. Hamilton

The sparsest cut problem consists of identifying a small set of edges that breaks the graph into balanced sets of vertices. The normalized cut problem balances the total degree, instead of the size, of the resulting sets. Applications of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Ananthram Swami

Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti