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We study the localization of a cluster of activated vertices in a graph, from adaptively designed compressive measurements. We propose a hierarchical partitioning of the graph that groups the activated vertices into few partitions, so that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-17 Akshay Krishnamurthy , James Sharpnack , Aarti Singh

A simple model to study subspace clustering is the high-dimensional $k$-Gaussian mixture model where the cluster means are sparse vectors. Here we provide an exact asymptotic characterization of the statistically optimal reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-04 Luca Pesce , Bruno Loureiro , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

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

Symplectic symmetry approach to clustering (SSAC) in atomic nuclei, recently proposed, is modified and further developed in more detail. It is firstly applied to the light two-cluster $^{20}$Ne + $\alpha$ system of $^{24}$Mg, the latter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 H. G. Ganev

In this paper we study constrained subspace approximation problem. Given a set of $n$ points $\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal of the {\em subspace approximation} problem is to find a $k$ dimensional subspace that best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aditya Bhaskara , Sepideh Mahabadi , Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu , Ali Vakilian , David P. Woodruff

Spectral clustering is a technique that clusters elements using the top few eigenvectors of their (possibly normalized) similarity matrix. The quality of spectral clustering is closely tied to the convergence properties of these principal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Purnamrita Sarkar , Peter J. Bickel

Dimensionality reduction, cluster analysis, and sparse representation are basic components in machine learning. However, their relationships have not yet been fully investigated. In this paper, we find that the spectral graph theory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Zhenfang Hu , Gang Pan , Yueming Wang , Zhaohui Wu

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

Graph construction is a crucial step in spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL). Spectral methods applied on standard graphs such as full-RBF, $\epsilon$-graphs and $k$-NN graphs can lead to poor performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-05-09 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama , Manqi Zhao

Normalized-cut graph partitioning aims to divide the set of nodes in a graph into $k$ disjoint clusters to minimize the fraction of the total edges between any cluster and all other clusters. In this paper, we consider a fair variant of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jia Li , Yanhao Wang , Arpit Merchant

Spectral partitioning is a simple, nearly-linear time, algorithm to find sparse cuts, and the Cheeger inequalities provide a worst-case guarantee for the quality of the approximation found by the algorithm. Local graph partitioning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Shayan Oveis Gharan , Luca Trevisan

Subspace clustering (SC) refers to the problem of clustering high-dimensional data into a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Based on spectral clustering, state-of-the-art approaches solve SC problem within a two-stage framework. In the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Shuai Yang , Wenqi Zhu , Yuesheng Zhu

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in acoustic scene classification (ASC) task. The audio data is often transformed into two-dimensional spectrogram representations, which are then…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Dading Chong

Graph clustering, aiming to partition nodes of a graph into various groups via an unsupervised approach, is an attractive topic in recent years. To improve the representative ability, several graph auto-encoder (GAE) models, which are based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hongyuan Zhang , Rui Zhang , Xuelong Li

We study the $k$-Submodular Cover ($kSC$) problem, a natural generalization of the classical Submodular Cover problem that arises in artificial intelligence and combinatorial optimization tasks such as influence maximization, resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hue T. Nguyen , Tan D. Tran , Nguyen Long Giang , Canh V. Pham

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis where the goal is to detect sets of nodes that are well-connected to each other but sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. We present faster approximation algorithms for an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Vedangi Bengali , Nate Veldt

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 (CC) is a foundational problem in unsupervised learning that models binary similarity relations using labeled graphs. While classical CC has been widely studied, many real-world applications involve more nuanced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chenglin Fan , Dahoon Lee , Euiwoong Lee

Spectral Clustering is a popular technique to split data points into groups, especially for complex datasets. The algorithms in the Spectral Clustering family typically consist of multiple separate stages (such as similarity matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Yifei Wang , Rui Liu , Yong Chen , Hui Zhangs , Zhiwen Ye

We give the first $2$-approximation algorithm for the cluster vertex deletion problem. This is tight, since approximating the problem within any constant factor smaller than $2$ is UGC-hard. Our algorithm combines the previous approaches,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Manuel Aprile , Matthew Drescher , Samuel Fiorini , Tony Huynh