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Fair graph clustering is crucial for ensuring equitable representation and treatment of diverse communities in network analysis. Traditional methods often ignore disparities among social, economic, and demographic groups, perpetuating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sina Baharlouei , Sadra Sabouri

We investigate the question of studying spectral clustering in a Hilbert space where the set of points to cluster are drawn i.i.d. according to an unknown probability distribution whose support is a union of compact connected components. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Ilaria Giulini

We propose and study a novel graph clustering method for data with an intrinsic network structure. Similar to spectral clustering, we exploit an intrinsic network structure of data to construct Euclidean feature vectors. These feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Y. SarcheshmehPour , Y. Tian , L. Zhang , A. Jung

Graph clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis with applications in many different fields. While there is a large body of work on clustering undirected graphs, the problem of clustering directed graphs is much less understood.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-31 James Martin , Tim Rogers , Luca Zanetti

Graph clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that partitions the nodes in a graph into different groups. Despite achieving significant progress in exploiting both attributed and structured data information, graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyang Hou , Zhihua Tian , Yan he , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Qingbiao Wu , Kui Ren

Persistent homology is a natural tool for probing the topological characteristics of weighted graphs, essentially focusing on their $0$-dimensional homology. While this area has been substantially studied, we present a new approach to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

This paper studies clustering algorithms for dynamically evolving graphs $\{G_t\}$, in which new edges (and potential new vertices) are added into a graph, and the underlying cluster structure of the graph can gradually change. The paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Steinar Laenen , He Sun

We present a simple spectral approach to the well-studied constrained clustering problem. It captures constrained clustering as a generalized eigenvalue problem with graph Laplacians. The algorithm works in nearly-linear time and provides…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Mihai Cucuringu , Ioannis Koutis , Sanjay Chawla , Gary Miller , Richard Peng

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

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 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

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of clustering-based approaches for self-supervised and unsupervised learning. However, the application of clustering is often heuristic, and the optimal methodology remains unclear. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xiaodong Wang , Jing Huang , Kevin J Liang

In this work a robust clustering algorithm for stationary time series is proposed. The algorithm is based on the use of estimated spectral densities, which are considered as functional data, as the basic characteristic of stationary time…

In this study, we address the complex issue of graph clustering in signed graphs, which are characterized by positive and negative weighted edges representing attraction and repulsion among nodes, respectively. The primary objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Felix Hausberger , Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Christian Schulz

Clustering graphs based on a comparison of the number of links within clusters and the expected value of this quantity in a random graph has gained a lot of attention and popularity in the last decade. Recently, Aldecoa and Marin proposed a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Tobias Fleck , Andrea Kappes , Dorothea Wagner

Modern network analysis often involves multi-layer network data in which the nodes are aligned, and the edges on each layer represent one of the multiple relations among the nodes. Current literature on multi-layer network data is mostly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Wenqing Su , Xiao Guo , Xiangyu Chang , Ying Yang

In this paper we study variants of the widely used spectral clustering that partitions a graph into k clusters by (1) embedding the vertices of a graph into a low-dimensional space using the bottom eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Richard Peng , He Sun , Luca Zanetti

Graph Spectral Clustering methods (GSC) allow representing clusters of diverse shapes, densities, etc. However, the results of such algorithms, when applied e.g. to text documents, are hard to explain to the user, especially due to…

Spectral clustering is one of the most effective clustering approaches that capture hidden cluster structures in the data. However, it does not scale well to large-scale problems due to its quadratic complexity in constructing similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Lingfei Wu , Pin-Yu Chen , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Fangli Xu , Yinglong Xia , Charu Aggarwal

Correlation clustering provides a method for separating the vertices of a signed graph into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance. The main goal in this type of clustering is to minimize the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Leila Parsaei-Majd