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In the presence of heterogeneous data, where randomly rotated objects fall into multiple underlying categories, it is challenging to simultaneously classify them into clusters and synchronize them based on pairwise relations. This gives…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-15 Yifeng Fan , Yuehaw Khoo , Zhizhen Zhao

Graph clustering or community detection constitutes an important task for investigating the internal structure of graphs, with a plethora of applications in several domains. Traditional techniques for graph clustering, such as spectral…

Clustering is one of the most important unsupervised problems in machine learning and statistics. Among many existing algorithms, kernel k-means has drawn much research attention due to its ability to find non-linear cluster boundaries and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-05 Bowei Yan , Purnamrita Sarkar

Community-based graph clustering is one of the most popular topics in the analysis of complex social networks. This type of clustering involves grouping vertices that are considered to share more connections, whereas vertices in different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wenshun Teng , Qingna Li

We introduce a novel method for clustering using a semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the Max k-Cut problem. The approach is based on a new methodology for rounding the solution of an SDP relaxation using iterated linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Pedro Felzenszwalb , Caroline Klivans , Alice Paul

Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti

We consider the problem of clustering a graph $G$ into two communities by observing a subset of the vertex correlations. Specifically, we consider the inverse problem with observed variables $Y=B_G x \oplus Z$, where $B_G$ is the incidence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Emmanuel Abbe , Afonso S. Bandeira , Annina Bracher , Amit Singer

Many data types arising from data mining applications can be modeled as bipartite graphs, examples include terms and documents in a text corpus, customers and purchasing items in market basket analysis and reviewers and movies in a movie…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 H. Zha , X. He , C. Ding , M. Gu , H. Simon

We consider the problem of subspace clustering: given points that lie on or near the union of many low-dimensional linear subspaces, recover the subspaces. To this end, one first identifies sets of points close to the same subspace and uses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-03 Dohyung Park , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

The minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC), or k-means type clustering, is traditionally considered an unsupervised learning task. In recent years, the use of background knowledge to improve the cluster quality and promote…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Veronica Piccialli , Anna Russo Russo , Antonio M. Sudoso

Max-k-Cut and correlation clustering are fundamental graph partitioning problems. For a graph with G=(V,E) with n vertices, the methods with the best approximation guarantees for Max-k-Cut and the Max-Agree variant of correlation clustering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Nimita Shinde , Vishnu Narayanan , James Saunderson

Graphs have become increasingly popular in modeling structures and interactions in a wide variety of problems during the last decade. Graph-based clustering and semi-supervised classification techniques have shown impressive performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Qiang Cheng , Xinwang Liu , Xi Peng , Zenglin Xu , Ling Tian

We introduce a graph partitioning problem motivated by computational topology and propose two algorithms that produce approximate solutions. Specifically, given a weighted, undirected graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, we desire to find…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Abdel-Rahman Madkour , Phillip Nadolny , Matthew Wright

Finding a suitable data representation for a specific task has been shown to be crucial in many applications. The success of subspace clustering depends on the assumption that the data can be separated into different subspaces. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Zhengrui Ma , Zhao Kang , Guangchun Luo , Ling Tian

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

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

Local graph clustering methods aim to detect small clusters in very large graphs without the need to process the whole graph. They are fundamental and scalable tools for a wide range of tasks such as local community detection, node ranking…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Shenghao Yang , Kimon Fountoulakis

Mining dense quasi-cliques is a well-known clustering task with applications ranging from social networks over collaboration graphs to document analysis. Recent work has extended this task to multiple graphs; i.e. the goal is to find groups…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Roberto Alonso , Stephan Günnemann

Clustering is a well-known and important problem with numerous applications. The graph-based model is one of the typical cluster models. In the graph model, clusters are generally defined as cliques. However, such an approach might be too…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Ivan Bliznets , Nikolai Karpov

We consider the densest submatrix problem, which seeks the submatrix of fixed size of a given binary matrix that contains the most nonzero entries. This problem is a natural generalization of fundamental problems in combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Valentine Olanubi , Phineas Agar , Brendan Ames