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We consider spectral clustering algorithms for community detection under a general bipartite stochastic block model (SBM). A modern spectral clustering algorithm consists of three steps: (1) regularization of an appropriate adjacency or…

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

Spectral algorithms are classic approaches to clustering and community detection in networks. However, for sparse networks the standard versions of these algorithms are suboptimal, in some cases completely failing to detect communities even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Florent Krzakala , Cristopher Moore , Elchanan Mossel , Joe Neeman , Allan Sly , Lenka Zdeborová , Pan Zhang

We propose a novel perspective on varied-density clustering for high-dimensional data by framing it as a label propagation process in neighborhood graphs that adapt to local density variations. Our method formally connects density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ninh Pham , Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs

Clustering, as an unsupervised technique, plays a pivotal role in various data analysis applications. Among clustering algorithms, Spectral Clustering on Euclidean Spaces has been extensively studied. However, with the rapid evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Sagar Ghosh , Swagatam Das

Clustering is a difficult and widely-studied data mining task, with many varieties of clustering algorithms proposed in the literature. Nearly all algorithms use a similarity measure such as a distance metric (e.g. Euclidean distance) to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Andrew Lensen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

We focus on spectral clustering of unlabeled graphs and review some results on clustering methods which achieve weak or strong consistent identification in data generated by such models. We also present a new algorithm which appears to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

This paper presents a novel spectral algorithm with additive clustering designed to identify overlapping communities in networks. The algorithm is based on geometric properties of the spectrum of the expected adjacency matrix in a random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

One of the most useful measures of cluster quality is the modularity of a partition, which measures the difference between the number of the edges joining vertices from the same cluster and the expected number of such edges in a random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Hristo Djidjev

We describe a new optimization scheme for finding high-quality correlation clusterings in planar graphs that uses weighted perfect matching as a subroutine. Our method provides lower-bounds on the energy of the optimal correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Julian Yarkony , Alexander T. Ihler , Charless C. Fowlkes

Edge-centric distributed computations have appeared as a recent technique to improve the shortcomings of think-like-a-vertex algorithms on large scale-free networks. In order to increase parallelism on this model, edge partitioning -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Schlag , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier , Darren Strash

Clustering algorithms remain valuable tools for grouping and summarizing the most important aspects of data. Example areas where this is the case include image segmentation, dimension reduction, signals analysis, model order reduction,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Guy B. Oldaker , Maria Emelianenko

We propose a method for the unsupervised clustering of hyperspectral images based on spatially regularized spectral clustering with ultrametric path distances. The proposed method efficiently combines data density and geometry to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Shukun Zhang , James M. Murphy

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

Graph-based clustering methods have demonstrated the effectiveness in various applications. Generally, existing graph-based clustering methods first construct a graph to represent the input data and then partition it to generate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

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

Samples from intimate (non-linear) mixtures are generally modeled as being drawn from a smooth manifold. Scenarios where the data contains multiple intimate mixtures with some constituent materials in common can be thought of as manifolds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Arun M. Saranathan , Mario Parente

As the most typical graph clustering method, spectral clustering is popular and attractive due to the remarkable performance, easy implementation, and strong adaptability. Classical spectral clustering measures the edge weights of graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Dehua Peng , Zhipeng Gui , Huayi Wu

Clustering is an essential technique for network analysis, with applications in a diverse range of fields. Although spectral clustering is a popular and effective method, it fails to consider higher-order structure and can perform poorly on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-14 William George Underwood , Andrew Elliott , Mihai Cucuringu

This article explores and analyzes the unsupervised clustering of large partially observed graphs. We propose a scalable and provable randomized framework for clustering graphs generated from the stochastic block model. The clustering is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mostafa Rahmani , Andre Beckus , Adel Karimian , George Atia