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Identifying clusters of similar elements in a set is a common task in data analysis. With the immense growth of data and physical limitations on single processor speed, it is necessary to find efficient parallel algorithms for clustering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Mélanie Cambus , Davin Choo , Havu Miikonen , Jara Uitto

We present a $(1+\frac{k}{k+2})$-approximation algorithm for the Maximum $k$-dependent Set problem on bipartite graphs for any $k\ge1$. For a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the algorithm runs in $O(k m \sqrt{n})$ time and improves…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Seyedmohammadhossein Hosseinian , Sergiy Butenko

In this paper, we reduce the complexity of approximating the correlation clustering problem from $O(m\times\left( 2+ \alpha (G) \right)+n)$ to $O(m+n)$ for any given value of $\varepsilon$ for a complete signed graph with $n$ vertices and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ali Shakiba

The Balanced Connected Subgraph problem (BCS) was recently introduced by Bhore et al. (CALDAM 2019). In this problem, we are given a graph $G$ whose vertices are colored by red or blue. The goal is to find a maximum connected subgraph of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kensuke Kojima , Norihide Matsubara , Taiga Sone , Akihiro Yamamoto

Spectral clustering became a popular choice for data clustering for its ability of uncovering clusters of different shapes. However, it is not always preferable over other clustering methods due to its computational demands. One of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mashaan Alshammari , John Stavrakakis , Masahiro Takatsuka

In order to study real-world systems, many applied works model them through signed graphs, i.e. graphs whose edges are labeled as either positive or negative. Such a graph is considered as structurally balanced when it can be partitioned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Nejat Arinik , Rosa Figueiredo , Vincent Labatut

Maximum bipartite matching is a fundamental algorithmic problem which can be solved in polynomial time. We consider a natural variant in which there is a separation constraint: the vertices on one side lie on a path or a grid, and two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Pasin Manurangsi , Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

According to the structural balance theory, a signed graph is considered structurally balanced when it can be partitioned into a number of modules such that positive and negative edges are respectively located inside and between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Nejat Arinik , Vincent Labatut , Rosa Figueiredo

We study bipartite community detection in networks, or more generally the network biclustering problem. We present a fast two-stage procedure based on spectral initialization followed by the application of a pseudo-likelihood classifier…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhixin Zhou , Arash A. Amini

Correlation Clustering is a fundamental and widely-studied problem in unsupervised learning and data mining. The input is a graph and the goal is to construct a clustering minimizing the number of inter-cluster edges plus the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Shi Li , Euiwoong Lee , David Rasmussen Lolck , Alantha Newman , Mikkel Thorup , Lukas Vogl , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

We consider a variant of the clustering problem for a complete weighted graph. The aim is to partition the nodes into clusters maximizing the sum of the edge weights within the clusters. This problem is known as the clique partitioning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Alexander Belyi , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Alexander Kurbatski , Carlo Ratti

This work introduces a hybrid quantum-classical method to correlation clustering, a graph-based unsupervised learning task that seeks to partition the nodes in a graph based on pairwise agreement and disagreement. In particular, we adapt…

Given a bipartite graph, the maximum balanced biclique (\textsf{MBB}) problem, discovering a mutually connected while equal-sized disjoint sets with the maximum cardinality, plays a significant role for mining the bipartite graph and has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Rui Zhou , Jiajie Xu , Jianxin Li

The Maximum Betweenness Centrality problem (MBC) can be defined as follows. Given a graph find a $k$-element node set $C$ that maximizes the probability of detecting communication between a pair of nodes $s$ and $t$ chosen uniformly at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-23 Martin Fink , Joachim Spoerhase

A maximum priority matching is a matching in an undirected graph that maximizes a priority score defined with respect to given vertex priorities. An earlier paper showed how to find maximum priority matchings in unweighted graphs. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Jonathan Turner

Ashtiani et al. (NIPS 2016) introduced a semi-supervised framework for clustering (SSAC) where a learner is allowed to make same-cluster queries. More specifically, in their model, there is a query oracle that answers queries of the form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Nir Ailon , Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal

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

There are various approaches to graph learning for data clustering, incorporating different spectral and structural constraints through diverse graph structures. Some methods rely on bipartite graph models, where nodes are divided into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Amirhossein Javaheri , Daniel P. Palomar

In machine learning, correlation clustering is an important problem whose goal is to partition the individuals into groups that correlate with their pairwise similarities as much as possible. In this work, we revisit the correlation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Daogao Liu

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