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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

In this paper we generalize the spectral concentration problem as formulated by Slepian, Pollak and Landau in the 1960s. We show that a generalized version with arbitrary space and Fourier masks is well-posed, and we prove some new results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Erwan Faou , Yoann Le Henaff

One of the fundamental problems in network analysis is detecting community structure in multi-layer networks, of which each layer represents one type of edge information among the nodes. We propose integrative spectral clustering approaches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Sihan Huang , Haolei Weng , Yang Feng

We study the connections between spectral clustering and the problems of maximum margin clustering, and estimation of the components of level sets of a density function. Specifically, we obtain bounds on the eigenvectors of graph Laplacian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-18 David P. Hofmeyr

We prove restriction type estimates for sub-Laplacians on general two-step stratified Lie groups. The core of our approach is to use spectral cluster estimates to effectively control the eigenvalue distribution of a family of anisotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Lars Niedorf

Spectral clustering methods have gained widespread recognition for their effectiveness in clustering high-dimensional data. Among these techniques, constrained spectral clustering has emerged as a prominent approach, demonstrating enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Swarup Ranjan Behera , Vijaya V. Saradhi

We consider the problem of clustering with the longest-leg path distance (LLPD) metric, which is informative for elongated and irregularly shaped clusters. We prove finite-sample guarantees on the performance of clustering with respect to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-07 Anna Little , Mauro Maggioni , James M. Murphy

Spectral clustering is a popular and effective algorithm designed to find $k$ clusters in a graph $G$. In the classical spectral clustering algorithm, the vertices of $G$ are embedded into $\mathbb{R}^k$ using $k$ eigenvectors of the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peter Macgregor

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular clustering methods. However, how to balance the efficiency and effectiveness of the large-scale spectral clustering with limited computing resources has not been properly solved for a long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hongmin Li , Xiucai Ye , Akira Imakura , Tetsuya Sakurai

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular unsupervised machine learning methods. Constructing similarity matrix is crucial to this type of method. In most existing works, the similarity matrix is computed once for all or is updated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yongyan Guo , Gang Wu

We build upon recent advances in graph signal processing to propose a faster spectral clustering algorithm. Indeed, classical spectral clustering is based on the computation of the first k eigenvectors of the similarity matrix' Laplacian,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Nicolas Tremblay , Gilles Puy , Pierre Borgnat , Remi Gribonval , Pierre Vandergheynst

We study the task of clustering in directed networks. We show that using the eigenvalue/eigenvector decomposition of the adjacency matrix is simpler than all common methods which are based on a combination of data regularization and SVD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Simon Coste , Ludovic Stephan

While orthogonalization exists in current dimensionality reduction methods in spectral clustering on undirected graphs, it does not scale in parallel computing environments. We propose four orthogonalization-free methods for spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Qiyuan Pang , Haizhao Yang

This article proposes a first analysis of kernel spectral clustering methods in the regime where the dimension $p$ of the data vectors to be clustered and their number $n$ grow large at the same rate. We demonstrate, under a $k$-class…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Romain Couillet , Florent Benaych-Georges

Spectral clustering is a popular clustering method. It first maps data into the spectral embedding space and then uses Kmeans to find clusters. However, the two decoupled steps prohibit joint optimization for the optimal solution. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wengang Guo , Wei Ye

Spectral clustering has found extensive use in many areas. Most traditional spectral clustering algorithms work in three separate steps: similarity graph construction; continuous labels learning; discretizing the learned labels by k-means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Qiang Cheng , Zenglin Xu

We develop a distributed Block Chebyshev-Davidson algorithm to solve large-scale leading eigenvalue problems for spectral analysis in spectral clustering. First, the efficiency of the Chebyshev-Davidson algorithm relies on the prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Qiyuan Pang , Haizhao Yang

The community detection problem on multilayer networks have drawn much interest. When the nodal covariates ar also present, few work has been done to integrate information from both sources. To leverage the multilayer networks and the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-13 Da Zhao , Wanjie Wang , Jialiang Li

We revisit the problem of spectral clustering in multimodal settings, where each data modality is encoded as a graph Laplacian. While classical approaches--including joint diagonalization, spectral co-regularization, and multiview…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Haoze He , Artemis Pados , Daniel Kressner

Spectral clustering is a fundamental technique in the field of data mining and information processing. Most existing spectral clustering algorithms integrate dimensionality reduction into the clustering process assisted by manifold learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang , Xiaofang Zhou