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Spectral techniques are popular and robust approaches to data analysis. A prominent example is the use of eigenvectors of a Laplacian, constructed from data affinities, to identify natural data groupings or clusters, or to produce a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Gary Froyland

Real-time coupled cluster (CC) methods have several advantages over their frequency-domain counterparts, namely, response and equation of motion CC theories. Broadband spectra, strong fields, and pulse manipulation allow for the simulation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Benjamin G. Peyton , Zhe Wang , T. Daniel Crawford

Spectral Clustering as a relaxation of the normalized/ratio cut has become one of the standard graph-based clustering methods. Existing methods for the computation of multiple clusters, corresponding to a balanced $k$-cut of the graph, are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-26 Syama Sundar Rangapuram , Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Matthias Hein

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 (SC) is a widely used data clustering method which first learns a low-dimensional embedding $U$ of data by computing the eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian matrix, and then performs k-means on $U^\top$ to get the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Canyi Lu , Jiashi Feng , Zhouchen Lin , Shuicheng Yan

Spectral clustering is one of the fundamental unsupervised learning methods widely used in data analysis. Sparse spectral clustering (SSC) imposes sparsity to the spectral clustering and it improves the interpretability of the model. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-03 Zhongruo Wang , Bingyuan Liu , Shixiang Chen , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue , Hongyu Zhao

We study generalized density-based clustering in which sharply defined clusters such as clusters on lower-dimensional manifolds are allowed. We show that accurate clustering is possible even in high dimensions. We propose two data-based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Self-supervised heterogeneous graph learning (SHGL) has shown promising potential in diverse scenarios. However, while existing SHGL methods share a similar essential with clustering approaches, they encounter two significant limitations:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yujie Mo , Zhihe Lu , Runpeng Yu , Xiaofeng Zhu , Xinchao Wang

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

Constrained clustering leverages limited domain knowledge to improve clustering performance and interpretability, but incorporating pairwise must-link and cannot-link constraints is an NP-hard challenge, making global optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pedro Chumpitaz-Flores , My Duong , Cristobal Heredia , Kaixun Hua

Spectral clustering has shown a superior performance in analyzing the cluster structure. However, its computational complexity limits its application in analyzing large-scale data. To address this problem, many low-rank matrix approximating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Djallel Bouneffouf

Subspace clustering has become widely adopted for the unsupervised analysis of hyperspectral images (HSIs). Recent model-aware deep subspace clustering methods often use a two-stage framework, involving the calculation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xianlu Li , Nicolas Nadisic , Shaoguang Huang , Nikos Deligiannis , Aleksandra Pižurica

Anchor-based techniques reduce the computational complexity of spectral clustering algorithms. Although empirical tests have shown promising results, there is currently a lack of theoretical support for the anchoring approach. We define a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-30 Henry-Louis de Kergorlay , Desmond John Higham

We analyze the performance of spectral clustering for community extraction in stochastic block models. We show that, under mild conditions, spectral clustering applied to the adjacency matrix of the network can consistently recover hidden…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Jing Lei , Alessandro Rinaldo

In this article, we develop a clique-based method for social network clustering. We introduce a new index to evaluate the quality of clustering results, and propose an efficient algorithm based on recursive bipartition to maximize an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Guang Ouyang , Dipak K. Dey , Panpan Zhang

A spectral method is considered for approximating the fractional Laplacian and solving the fractional Poisson problem in 2D and 3D unit balls. The method is based on the explicit formulation of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Kailai Xu , Eric Darve

Recent work on deep clustering has found new promising methods also for constrained clustering problems. Their typically pairwise constraints often can be used to guide the partitioning of the data. Many problems however, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jonas K. Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

The performance of spectral clustering can be considerably improved via regularization, as demonstrated empirically in Amini et. al (2012). Here, we provide an attempt at quantifying this improvement through theoretical analysis. Under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-22 Antony Joseph , Bin Yu

Graph-based subspace clustering methods have exhibited promising performance. However, they still suffer some of these drawbacks: encounter the expensive time overhead, fail in exploring the explicit clusters, and cannot generalize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Zhao Kang , Zhiping Lin , Xiaofeng Zhu , Wenbo Xu

This work studies the classical spectral clustering algorithm which embeds the vertices of some graph $G=(V_G, E_G)$ into $\mathbb{R}^k$ using $k$ eigenvectors of some matrix of $G$, and applies $k$-means to partition $V_G$ into $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Peter Macgregor , He Sun