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We propose a graph-based clustering method based on Cluster Catch Digraphs (CCDs) that extends their applicability to moderate-dimensional data settings. Existing CCD variants, such as RK-CCDs, rely on spatial randomness tests based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Rui Shi , Elvan Ceyhan , Nedret Billor

We study the scenario of graph-based clustering algorithms such as spectral clustering. Given a set of data points, one first has to construct a graph on the data points and then apply a graph clustering algorithm to find a suitable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-02-11 Markus Maier , Ulrike von Luxburg , Matthias Hein

In Network Science node neighbourhoods, also called ego-centered networks have attracted large attention. In particular the clustering coefficient has been extensively used to measure their local cohesiveness. In this paper, we show how,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-22 Alexander P. Kartun-Giles , Ginestra Bianconi

After generalizing the concept of clusters to incorporate clusters that are linked to other clusters through some relatively narrow bridges, an approach for detecting patches of separation between these clusters is developed based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Luciano da F. Costa

One of the most useful measures of cluster quality is the modularity of a partition, which measures the difference between the number of the edges joining vertices from the same cluster and the expected number of such edges in a random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Hristo Djidjev

Modern graph or network datasets often contain rich structure that goes beyond simple pairwise connections between nodes. This calls for complex representations that can capture, for instance, edges of different types as well as so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson

Small-world networks by Watts and Strogatz are a class of networks that are highly clustered, like regular lattices, yet have small characteristic path lengths, like random graphs. These characteristics result in networks with unique…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-09-27 Qawi K. Telesford , Karen E. Joyce , Satoru Hayasaka , Jonathan H. Burdette , Paul J. Laurienti

Networks (or graphs) appear as dominant structures in diverse domains, including sociology, biology, neuroscience and computer science. In most of the aforementioned cases graphs are directed - in the sense that there is directionality on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Michalis Vazirgiannis

In this paper, we study the clustering properties of the Spatial Preferential Attachment (SPA) model. This model naturally combines geometry and preferential attachment using the notion of spheres of influence. It was previously shown in…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Lenar Iskhakov , Bogumil Kaminski , Maksim Mironov , Pawel Pralat , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

The coexistence of sparsity and clustering (non-vanishing average fraction of triangles per node) is one of the few structural features that, irrespective of finer details, are ubiquitously observed across large real-world networks. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alessio Catanzaro , Remco van der Hofstad , Diego Garlaschelli

A wide variety of complex networks (social, biological, information etc.) exhibit local clustering with substantial variation in the clustering coefficient (the probability of neighbors being connected). Existing models of large graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Samantha Petti , Santosh Vempala

We generalize finite-sample bounds for convex clustering to the setting where affinity weights appearing in the objective correspond to a general connected graph. These bounds and their analysis lead to a better understanding of clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Sam Rosen , Jason Xu

The clustering coefficient of a vertex in a graph is the proportion of neighbours of the vertex that are adjacent. The minimum clustering coefficient of a graph is the smallest clustering coefficient taken over all vertices. A complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Adam Borchert , Skylar Nicol , Ortrud R. Oellermann

Gaussian mixture block models are distributions over graphs that strive to model modern networks: to generate a graph from such a model, we associate each vertex $i$ with a latent feature vector $u_i \in \mathbb{R}^d$ sampled from a mixture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-12 Shuangping Li , Tselil Schramm

We derive the finite size dependence of the clustering coefficient of scale-free random graphs generated by the configuration model with degree distribution exponent $2<\gamma<3$. Degree heterogeneity increases the presence of triangles in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-05 Pol Colomer-de-Simon , Marian Boguna

The Euler characteristic transform (ECT) is a signature from topological data analysis (TDA) which summarises shapes embedded in Euclidean space. Compared with other TDA methods, the ECT is fast to compute and it is a sufficient statistic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Lewis Marsh , David Beers

Relations between average shortest path length and average clustering coefficient, radiality, closeness and stress centralities were obtained for simple graphs.

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Mikhail Tuzhilin

We consider geometrical clusters (i.e. domains of parallel spins) in the square lattice random field Ising model by varying the strength of the Gaussian random field, $\Delta$. In agreement with the conclusion of previous investigation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-09 László Környei , Ferenc Iglói

We continue the study of ideal convergence for sequences $(x_n)$ with values in a topological space $X$ with respect to a family $\{F_\eta:\eta\in X\}$ of subsets of $X$ with $\eta\in F_\eta$, where each $F_\eta$ measures the allowed…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Paolo Leonetti

We develop new methods based on graph motifs for graph clustering, allowing more efficient detection of communities within networks. We focus on triangles within graphs, but our techniques extend to other clique motifs as well. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Charalampos Tsourakakis , Jakub Pachocki , Michael Mitzenmacher