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Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to the increasing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest. Scalability problems…

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In this paper, we consider sparse networks consisting of a finite number of non-overlapping communities, i.e. disjoint clusters, so that there is higher density within clusters than across clusters. Both the intra- and inter-cluster edge…

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Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu

Connected clustering denotes a family of constrained clustering problems in which we are given a distance metric and an undirected connectivity graph $G$ that can be completely unrelated to the metric. The aim is to partition the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jan Eube , Heiko Röglin

In this paper we consider the problem of clustering collections of very short texts using subspace clustering. This problem arises in many applications such as product categorisation, fraud detection, and sentiment analysis. The main…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-29 Hankui Peng , Nicos Pavlidis , Idris Eckley , Ioannis Tsalamanis

We consider the problem of spectral clustering under group fairness constraints, where samples from each sensitive group are approximately proportionally represented in each cluster. Traditional fair spectral clustering (FSC) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xiang Zhang , Qiao Wang

Clustering is a widely used unsupervised learning method for finding structure in the data. However, the resulting clusters are typically presented without any guarantees on their robustness; slightly changing the used data sample or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-02 Andreas Henelius , Kai Puolamäki , Henrik Boström , Panagiotis Papapetrou

How can we find meaningful clusters in a graph robustly against noise edges? Graph clustering (i.e., dividing nodes into groups of similar ones) is a fundamental problem in graph analysis with applications in various fields. Recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Hyeonsoo Jo , Fanchen Bu , Kijung Shin

Data clustering with uneven distribution in high level noise is challenging. Currently, HDBSCAN is considered as the SOTA algorithm for this problem. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering algorithm based on what we call graph of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Zhangyang Gao , Haitao Lin , Stan. Z Li

Many clustering problems in computer vision and other contexts are also classification problems, where each cluster shares a meaningful label. Subspace clustering algorithms in particular are often applied to problems that fit this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 John Lipor , Laura Balzano

The problem of finding the vertex correspondence between two noisy graphs with different number of vertices where the smaller graph is still large has many applications in social networks, neuroscience, and computer vision. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-03 Daniel L. Sussman , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe , Vince Lyzinski

Document clustering is an unsupervised approach in which a large collection of documents (corpus) is subdivided into smaller, meaningful, identifiable, and verifiable sub-groups (clusters). Meaningful representation of documents and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Muhammad Rafi , Farnaz Amin , Mohammad Shahid Shaikh

Graph clustering (or community detection) has long drawn enormous attention from the research on web mining and information networks. Recent literature on this topic has reached a consensus that node contents and link structures should be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Carl Yang , Mengxiong Liu , Zongyi Wang , Liyuan Liu , Jiawei Han

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

Cluster structure detection is a fundamental task for the analysis of graphs, in order to understand and to visualize their functional characteristics. Among the different cluster structure detection methods, spectral clustering is…

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Convex clustering, a convex relaxation of k-means clustering and hierarchical clustering, has drawn recent attentions since it nicely addresses the instability issue of traditional nonconvex clustering methods. Although its computational…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-01 Binhuan Wang , Yilong Zhang , Will Wei Sun , Yixin Fang

Measuring graph clustering quality remains an open problem. To address it, we introduce quality measures based on comparisons of intra- and inter-cluster densities, an accompanying statistical test of the significance of their differences…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff , Anthony J. Bonner , Yuri Lawryshyn , Panos M. Pardalos

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

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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

Detection of interesting (e.g., coherent or anomalous) clusters has been studied extensively on plain or univariate networks, with various applications. Recently, algorithms have been extended to networks with multiple attributes for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Feng Chen , Baojian Zhou , Adil Alim , Liang Zhao