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This paper studies clustering algorithms for dynamically evolving graphs $\{G_t\}$, in which new edges (and potential new vertices) are added into a graph, and the underlying cluster structure of the graph can gradually change. The paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Steinar Laenen , He Sun

Spectral clustering is one of the most effective clustering approaches that capture hidden cluster structures in the data. However, it does not scale well to large-scale problems due to its quadratic complexity in constructing similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Lingfei Wu , Pin-Yu Chen , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Fangli Xu , Yinglong Xia , Charu Aggarwal

The Stochastic Block Model (Holland et al., 1983) is a mixture model for heterogeneous network data. Unlike the usual statistical framework, new nodes give additional information about the previous ones in this model. Thereby the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Antoine Channarond , Jean-Jacques Daudin , Stéphane Robin

We propose to estimate the number of communities in degree-corrected stochastic block models based on a pseudo likelihood ratio statistic. To this end, we introduce a method that combines spectral clustering with binary segmentation. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-31 Shujie Ma , Liangjun Su , Yichong Zhang

Based on a Gaussian mixture type model , we derive an eigen selection procedure that improves the usual spectral clustering in high-dimensional settings. Concretely, we derive the asymptotic expansion of the spiked eigenvalues under…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Xiao Han , Xin Tong , Yingying Fan

For community detection problem, spectral clustering is a widely used method for detecting clusters in networks. In this paper, we propose an improved spectral clustering (ISC) approach under the degree corrected stochastic block model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-13 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

We propose two spectral algorithms for partitioning nodes in directed graphs respectively with a cyclic and an acyclic pattern of connection between groups of nodes. Our methods are based on the computation of extremal eigenvalues of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 H. Van Lierde , T. W. S. Chow , J. -C. Delvenne

Given the widespread popularity of spectral clustering (SC) for partitioning graph data, we study a version of constrained SC in which we try to incorporate the fairness notion proposed by Chierichetti et al. (2017). According to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Matthäus Kleindessner , Samira Samadi , Pranjal Awasthi , Jamie Morgenstern

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular, yet still incompletely understood, methods for community detection on graphs. This article studies spectral clustering based on the Bethe-Hessian matrix $H_r = (r^2-1)I_n + D-rA$ for sparse…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Romain Couillet , Nicolas Tremblay

Clustering is the propensity of nodes that share a common neighbour to be connected. It is ubiquitous in many networks but poses many modelling challenges. Clustering typically manifests itself by a higher than expected frequency of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Martin Ritchie , Luc Berthouze , Istvan Z. Kiss

Spectral clustering is a novel clustering method which can detect complex shapes of data clusters. However, it requires the eigen decomposition of the graph Laplacian matrix, which is proportion to $O(n^3)$ and thus is not suitable for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa , Sanjay Chawla

An efficient MCMC algorithm is presented to cluster the nodes of a network such that nodes with similar role in the network are clustered together. This is known as block-modelling or block-clustering. The model is the stochastic blockmodel…

Computation · Statistics 2012-11-09 Aaron F. McDaid , Thomas Brendan Murphy , Nial Friel , Neil J Hurley

We focus on spectral clustering of unlabeled graphs and review some results on clustering methods which achieve weak or strong consistent identification in data generated by such models. We also present a new algorithm which appears to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

We derive exact equations for the spectral density of sparse networks with an arbitrary distribution of the number of single edges and triangles per node. These equations enable a systematic investigation of the effect of clustering on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-29 Tuan Minh Pham , Thomas Peron , Fernando L. Metz

Clustering in image analysis is a central technique that allows to classify elements of an image. We describe a simple clustering technique that uses the method of similarity matrices. We expand upon recent results in spectral analysis for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Denis Gaidashev , Ralf Pihlström , Martin Ryner

The stochastic block model (SBM) and degree-corrected block model (DCBM) are network models often selected as the fundamental setting in which to analyze the theoretical properties of community detection methods. We consider the problem of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Jonathan Hehir , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Xiaoyue Niu

Fairness of decision-making algorithms is an increasingly important issue. In this paper, we focus on spectral clustering with group fairness constraints, where every demographic group is represented in each cluster proportionally as in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Francesco Tonin , Alex Lambert , Johan A. K. Suykens , Volkan Cevher

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

Directed graphs have asymmetric connections, yet the current graph clustering methodologies cannot identify the potentially global structure of these asymmetries. We give a spectral algorithm called di-sim that builds on a dual measure of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-09 Karl Rohe , Tai Qin , Bin Yu

Spectral clustering uses the global information embedded in eigenvectors of an inter-item similarity matrix to correctly identify clusters of irregular shape, an ability lacking in commonly used approaches such as k-means and agglomerative…

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