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We propose a node clustering method for time-varying graphs based on the assumption that the cluster labels are changed smoothly over time. Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in many science and engineering fields including signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Katsuki Fukumoto , Koki Yamada , Yuichi Tanaka , Hoi-To Wai

Traditional clustering methods typically focus on either cluster-wise global clustering or point-wise local clustering to reveal the intrinsic structures in unlabeled data. Global clustering optimizes an objective function to explore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yuxuan Yan , Na Lu , Difei Mei , Ruofan Yan , Youtian Du

In this paper we introduce a new clustering technique called Regularity Clustering. This new technique is based on the practical variants of the two constructive versions of the Regularity Lemma, a very useful tool in graph theory. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-01 Gábor N. Sárközy , Fei Song , Endre Szemerédi , Shubhendu Trivedi

Spectral clustering is a popular method for community detection in network graphs: starting from a matrix representation of the graph, the nodes are clustered on a low dimensional projection obtained from a truncated spectral decomposition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-10 Francesco Sanna Passino , Nicholas A. Heard , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Local graph clustering is an important algorithmic technique for analysing massive graphs, and has been widely applied in many research fields of data science. While the objective of most (local) graph clustering algorithms is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Peter Macgregor , He Sun

Spectral-type subspace clustering algorithms have shown excellent performance in many subspace clustering applications. The existing spectral-type subspace clustering algorithms either focus on designing constraints for the reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Lai Wei , Zhengwei Chen , Jun Yin , Changming Zhu , Rigui Zhou , Jin Liu

Hypergraphs allow modeling problems with multi-way high-order relationships. However, the computational cost of most existing hypergraph-based algorithms can be heavily dependent upon the input hypergraph sizes. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Aghdaei , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

Local feature matching aims at finding correspondences between a pair of images. Although current detector-free methods leverage Transformer architecture to obtain an impressive performance, few works consider maintaining local consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jiahuan Yu , Jiahao Chang , Jianfeng He , Tianzhu Zhang , Feng Wu

Nowadays, huge amounts of data are naturally collected in distributed sites due to different facts and moving these data through the network for extracting useful knowledge is almost unfeasible for either technical reasons or policies.…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Lamine M. Aouad , Nhien-An Le-Khac , Tahar Kechadi

Deep graph clustering (DGC), which aims to unsupervisedly separate the nodes in an attribute graph into different clusters, has seen substantial potential in various industrial scenarios like community detection and recommendation. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yaowen Hu , Wenxuan Tu , Yue Liu , Xinhang Wan , Junyi Yan , Taichun Zhou , Xinwang Liu

The performance of spectral clustering heavily relies on the quality of affinity matrix. A variety of affinity-matrix-construction (AMC) methods have been proposed but they have hyperparameters to determine beforehand, which requires strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jicong Fan , Yiheng Tu , Zhao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Haijun Zhang

Feature learning on point clouds has shown great promise, with the introduction of effective and generalizable deep learning frameworks such as pointnet++. Thus far, however, point features have been abstracted in an independent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Chu Wang , Babak Samari , Kaleem Siddiqi

Spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms are sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data. In particular if the data has proximal and unbalanced clusters these algorithms can lead to poor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-22 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama

Graph clustering aims at discovering a natural grouping of the nodes such that similar nodes are assigned to a common cluster. Many different algorithms have been proposed in the literature: for simple graphs, for graphs with attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ylli Sadikaj , Yllka Velaj , Sahar Behzadi , Claudia Plant

Spectral clustering is a widely studied problem, yet its complexity is prohibitive for dynamic graphs of even modest size. We claim that it is possible to reuse information of past cluster assignments to expedite computation. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-13 Lionel Martin , Andreas Loukas , Pierre Vandergheynst

This paper considers the problem of clustering a partially observed unweighted graph---i.e., one where for some node pairs we know there is an edge between them, for some others we know there is no edge, and for the remaining we do not know…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Yudong Chen , Ali Jalali , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

Spectral clustering (SC) is a popular clustering technique to find strongly connected communities on a graph. SC can be used in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to implement pooling operations that aggregate nodes belonging to the same cluster.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Daniele Grattarola , Cesare Alippi

Local graph partitioning is a key graph mining tool that allows researchers to identify small groups of interrelated nodes (e.g. people) and their connective edges (e.g. interactions). Because local graph partitioning is primarily focused…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Scott Freitas , Hanghang Tong , Nan Cao , Yinglong Xia

We propose two spectral algorithms for partitioning nodes in directed graphs respectively with a cyclic and an acyclic pattern of connection between groups of nodes. Our methods are based on the computation of extremal eigenvalues of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 H. Van Lierde , T. W. S. Chow , J. -C. Delvenne

We consider the problem of learning causal networks with interventions, when each intervention is limited in size under Pearl's Structural Equation Model with independent errors (SEM-IE). The objective is to minimize the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Murat Kocaoglu , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sriram Vishwanath