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An autonomous variational inference algorithm for arbitrary graphical models requires the ability to optimize variational approximations over the space of model parameters as well as over the choice of tractable families used for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Eric P. Xing , Michael I. Jordan , Stuart Russell

Nonlinear reformulations of the spectral clustering method have gained a lot of recent attention due to their increased numerical benefits and their solid mathematical background. We present a novel direct multiway spectral clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Dimosthenis Pasadakis , Christie Louis Alappat , Olaf Schenk , Gerhard Wellein

We revisit the theoretical performances of Spectral Clustering, a classical algorithm for graph partitioning that relies on the eigenvectors of a matrix representation of the graph. Informally, we show that Spectral Clustering works well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 George Tyler , Luca Zanetti

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular clustering algorithms that has stood the test of time. It is simple to describe, can be implemented using standard linear algebra, and often finds better clusters than traditional clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Timothy Chu , Gary Miller , Noel Walkington

This paper proposes a variant of the normalized cut algorithm for spectral clustering. Although the normalized cut algorithm applies the K-means algorithm to the eigenvectors of a normalized graph Laplacian for finding clusters, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Tomohiko Mizutani

Spectral clustering refers to a family of unsupervised learning algorithms that compute a spectral embedding of the original data based on the eigenvectors of a similarity graph. This non-linear transformation of the data is both the key of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Nicolas Tremblay , Andreas Loukas

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 2019-04-12 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

The unsupervised learning of community structure, in particular the partitioning vertices into clusters or communities, is a canonical and well-studied problem in exploratory graph analysis. However, like most graph analyses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Benjamin W. Priest , Alec Dunton , Geoffrey Sanders

In this paper we introduce a new clustering technique called Regularity Clustering. This new technique is based on the practical variants of the two constructive versions of the Regularity Lemma, a very useful tool in graph theory. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-01 Gábor N. Sárközy , Fei Song , Endre Szemerédi , Shubhendu Trivedi

Graph based semi-supervised learning is the problem of learning a labeling function for the graph nodes given a few example nodes, often called seeds, usually under the assumption that the graph's edges indicate similarity of labels. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Meng Liu , David F. Gleich

The bipartite graph structure has shown its promising ability in facilitating the subspace clustering and spectral clustering algorithms for large-scale datasets. To avoid the post-processing via k-means during the bipartite graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Si-Guo Fang , Dong Huang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

Expander decompositions of graphs have significantly advanced the understanding of many classical graph problems and led to numerous fundamental theoretical results. However, their adoption in practice has been hindered due to their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke , Maximilian Vötsch

Graph clustering aims at discovering a natural grouping of the nodes such that similar nodes are assigned to a common cluster. Many different algorithms have been proposed in the literature: for simple graphs, for graphs with attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ylli Sadikaj , Yllka Velaj , Sahar Behzadi , Claudia Plant

Several challenging problem in clustering, partitioning and imaging have traditionally been solved using the "spectral technique". These problems include the normalized cut problem, the graph expander ratio problem, the Cheeger constant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Dorit S. Hochbaum

Graph construction is a crucial step in spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL). Spectral methods applied on standard graphs such as full-RBF, $\epsilon$-graphs and $k$-NN graphs can lead to poor performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-05-09 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama , Manqi Zhao

In this paper, we propose a simple but effective method for fast image segmentation. We re-examine the locality-preserving character of spectral clustering by constructing a graph over image regions with both global and local connections.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Zizhao Zhang , Fuyong Xing , Hanzi Wang , Yan Yan , Ying Huang , Xiaoshuang Shi , Lin Yang

We propose a wide class of preferential attachment models of random graphs, generalizing previous approaches. Graphs described by these models obey the power-law degree distribution, with the exponent that can be controlled in the models.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Liudmila Ostroumova , Alexander Ryabchenko , Egor Samosvat

One standard solution for analyzing large natural graphs is to adopt distributed computation on clusters. In distributed computation, graph partitioning (GP) methods assign the vertices or edges of a graph to different machines in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Cong Xie , Wu-Jun Li , Zhihua Zhang

Spectral clustering is a widely studied problem, yet its complexity is prohibitive for dynamic graphs of even modest size. We claim that it is possible to reuse information of past cluster assignments to expedite computation. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-13 Lionel Martin , Andreas Loukas , Pierre Vandergheynst

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