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Graph clustering, which aims to divide a graph into several homogeneous groups, is a critical area of study with applications that span various fields such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, and image segmentation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-15 Timothé Watteau , Aubin Bonnefoy , Simon Illouz-Laurent , Joaquim Jusseau , Serge Iovleff

We consider the problem of identifying the densest k-node subgraph in a given graph. We write this problem as an instance of rank-constrained cardinality minimization and then relax using the nuclear and 11 norms. Although the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Brendan P. W. Ames

In this paper, we consider classic randomized low diameter decomposition procedures for planar graphs that obtain connected clusters which are cohesive in that close-by pairs of nodes are assigned to the same cluster with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Kamesh Munagala , Govind S. Sankar

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in data analytics and machine learning. In many situations, different clusterings of the same data set become relevant. For example, different algorithms for the same clustering task may return…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Steffen Borgwardt , Charles Viss

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

We propose a Greedy strategy to solve the problem of Graph Cut, called GGC. It starts from the state where each data sample is regarded as a cluster and dynamically merges the two clusters which reduces the value of the global objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Feiping Nie , Shenfei Pei , Zengwei Zheng , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li

In this paper, we consider the graph alignment problem, which is the problem of recovering, given two graphs, a one-to-one mapping between nodes that maximizes edge overlap. This problem can be viewed as a noisy version of the well-known…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-14 Georgina Hall , Laurent Massoulié

This paper builds theoretical foundations for the recovery of a newly proposed class of smooth graph signals, approximately bandlimited graph signals, under three sampling strategies: uniform sampling, experimentally designed sampling and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Siheng Chen , Rohan Varma , Aarti Singh , Jelena Kovačević

In this paper we offer a new perspective on the well established agglomerative clustering algorithm, focusing on recovery of hierarchical structure. We recommend a simple variant of the standard algorithm, in which clusters are merged by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Annie Gray , Alexander Modell , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy , Nick Whiteley

Clustering is a widely used technique in data mining applications for discovering patterns in underlying data. Most traditional clustering algorithms are limited to handling datasets that contain either numeric or categorical attributes.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

The present paper is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. While the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs, we present an effective generalization, which we call higher-order spectral clustering. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Andrei Bobu , Maximilien Dreveton

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

Due to the massive size of modern network data, local algorithms that run in sublinear time for analyzing the cluster structure of the graph are receiving growing interest. Two typical examples are local graph clustering algorithms that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Pan Peng

We study efficient algorithms for recovering cliques in dense random intersection graphs (RIGs). In this model, $d = n^{\Omega(1)}$ cliques of size approximately $k$ are randomly planted by choosing the vertices to participate in each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Andreas Göbel , Janosch Ruff , Leon Schiller

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

The growing interest in machine learning problems over graphs with additional node information such as texts, images, or labels has popularized methods that require the costly operation of processing the entire graph. Yet, little effort has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Artur Back de Luca , Kimon Fountoulakis , Shenghao Yang

Local clustering aims to identify specific substructures within a large graph without any additional structural information of the graph. These substructures are typically small compared to the overall graph, enabling the problem to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zhaiming Shen , Sung Ha Kang

We investigate active learning by pairwise similarity over the leaves of trees originating from hierarchical clustering procedures. In the realizable setting, we provide a full characterization of the number of queries needed to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Fabio Vitale , Anand Rajagopalan , Claudio Gentile

Spectral clustering is popular among practitioners and theoreticians alike. While performance guarantees for spectral clustering are well understood, recent studies have focused on enforcing ``fairness'' in clusters, requiring them to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shubham Gupta , Ambedkar Dukkipati

The C-Planarity problem asks for a drawing of a $\textit{clustered graph}$, i.e., a graph whose vertices belong to properly nested clusters, in which each cluster is represented by a simple closed region with no edge-edge crossings, no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Giordano Da Lozzo , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Siddharth Gupta