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In the Colored Clustering problem, one is asked to cluster edge-colored (hyper-)graphs whose colors represent interaction types. More specifically, the goal is to select as many edges as possible without choosing two edges that share an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Leon Kellerhals , Tomohiro Koana , Pascal Kunz , Rolf Niedermeier

We study the computational problem of computing a fair means clustering of discrete vectors, which admits an equivalent formulation as editing a colored matrix into one with few distinct color-balanced rows by changing at most $k$ values.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Robert Ganian , Hung P. Hoang , Simon Wietheger

Clustering is one of the most fundamental problems in unsupervised learning with a large number of applications. However, classical clustering algorithms assume that the data is static, thus failing to capture many real-world applications…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Dariusz Leniowski , Christian Schulz , Alexander Svozil

Partitioning and grouping of similar objects plays a fundamental role in image segmentation and in clustering problems. In such problems a typical goal is to group together similar objects, or pixels in the case of image processing. At the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Dorit S. Hochbaum

We study the computational complexity of the graph modification problems Threshold Editing and Chain Editing, adding and deleting as few edges as possible to transform the input into a threshold (or chain) graph. In this article, we show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Pål Grønås Drange , Markus Sortland Dregi , Daniel Lokshtanov , Blair D. Sullivan

Kernelization algorithms for the {\sc cluster editing} problem have been a popular topic in the recent research in parameterized computation. Thus far most kernelization algorithms for this problem are based on the concept of {\it critical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Yixin Cao , Jianer Chen

We consider the clustering aggregation problem in which we are given a set of clusterings and want to find an aggregated clustering which minimizes the sum of mismatches to the input clusterings. In the binary case (each clustering is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jiehua Chen , Danny Hermelin , Manuel Sorge

We study the problem of transforming bipartite graphs into bicluster graphs. Abu-Khzam, Isenmann, and Merchad [IWOCA '25] introduced two variants of this problem. In both problems, the goal is to transform a bipartite graph into a bicluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Matthias Bentert , Pål Grønås Drange , Erlend Haugen

In the {\sc Min-Sum 2-Clustering} problem, we are given a graph and a parameter $k$, and the goal is to determine if there exists a 2-partition of the vertex set such that the total conflict number is at most $k$, where the conflict number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-11 Bang Ye Wu , Li-Hsuan Chen

We study Clustered Planarity with Linear Saturators, which is the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex planar graph whose vertices are partitioned into independent sets (called clusters) with paths - one for each cluster - that connect all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Giordano Da Lozzo , Robert Ganian , Siddharth Gupta , Bojan Mohar , Sebastian Ordyniak , Meirav Zehavi

Given a set of data, biclustering aims at finding simultaneous partitions in biclusters of its samples and of the features which are used for representing the samples. Consistent biclusterings allow to obtain correct classifications of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-18 Antonio Mucherino , Sonia Cafieri

In the Categorical Clustering problem, we are given a set of vectors (matrix) A={a_1,\ldots,a_n} over \Sigma^m, where \Sigma is a finite alphabet, and integers k and B. The task is to partition A into k clusters such that the median…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Nidhi Purohit

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and an integer $k$, the Cluster Editing problem asks whether we can transform $G$ into a union of vertex-disjoint cliques by at most $k$ modifications (edge deletions or insertions). In this paper, we study the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Shaohua Li , Marcin Pilipczuk , Manuel Sorge

Biclustering, also known as co-clustering or two-way clustering, simultaneously partitions the rows and columns of a data matrix to reveal submatrices with coherent patterns. Incorporating background knowledge into clustering to enhance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Antonio M. Sudoso

We introduce the aggregated clustering problem, where one is given $T$ instances of a center-based clustering task over the same $n$ points, but under different metrics. The goal is to open $k$ centers to minimize an aggregate of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Jonathan Conroy , Ankita Sarkar

Motivated by applications in community detection and dense subgraph discovery, we consider new clustering objectives in hypergraphs and bipartite graphs. These objectives are parameterized by one or more resolution parameters in order to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth , David F. Gleich

We study here the semi-supervised $k$-clustering problem where information is available on whether pairs of objects are in the same or in different clusters. This information is either available with certainty or with a limited level of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Philipp Baumann , Dorit S. Hochbaum

Bipartite Correlation clustering is the problem of generating a set of disjoint bi-cliques on a set of nodes while minimizing the symmetric difference to a bipartite input graph. The number or size of the output clusters is not constrained…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Nir Ailon , Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli , Edo Liberty

Correlation clustering seeks a partition of the vertex set of a given graph/network into groups of closely related, or just close enough, vertices so that elements of different groups are not close to each other. The problem has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Lucas Isenmann , Sergio Thoumi

The \textsc{Bipartite Contraction} problem is to decide, given a graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, whether we can can obtain a bipartite graph from $G$ by at most $k$ edge contractions. The fixed-parameter tractability of the problem was shown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Sylvain Guillemot , Dániel Marx