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This paper uses the relationship between graph conductance and spectral clustering to study (i) the failures of spectral clustering and (ii) the benefits of regularization. The explanation is simple. Sparse and stochastic graphs create a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Yilin Zhang , Karl Rohe

Graph kernel is a powerful tool measuring the similarity between graphs. Most of the existing graph kernels focused on node labels or attributes and ignored graph hierarchical structure information. In order to effectively utilize graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Kai Ma , Peng Wan , Daoqiang Zhang

Navigability is a distinctive features of graphs associated with artificial or natural systems whose primary goal is the transportation of information or goods. We say that a graph $\mathcal{G}$ is navigable when an agent is able to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Pasquale De Meo , Mark Levene , Alessandro Provetti

Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Yudong Chen , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

We study the properties of several proximity measures for the vertices of weighted multigraphs and multidigraphs. Unlike the classical distance for the vertices of connected graphs, these proximity measures are applicable to weighted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pavel Chebotarev , Elena Shamis

Current modularity-based community detection algorithms attempt to find cluster memberships that maximize modularity within a fixed graph topology. Diverging from this conventional approach, our work introduces a novel strategy that employs…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-02-27 Yongyu Wang , Shiqi Hao , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaotian Zhuang

Clustering algorithms have long been the topic of research, representing the more popular side of unsupervised learning. Since clustering analysis is one of the best ways to find some clarity and structure within raw data, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Naitik Gada

Kernel-based clustering algorithms have the ability to capture the non-linear structure in real world data. Among various kernel-based clustering algorithms, kernel k-means has gained popularity due to its simple iterative nature and ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Radha Chitta , Rong Jin , Timothy C. Havens , Anil K. Jain

Distance metric learning is a successful way to enhance the performance of the nearest neighbor classifier. In most cases, however, the distribution of data does not obey a regular form and may change in different parts of the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Hossein Rajabzadeh , Mansoor Zolghadri Jahromi , Mohammad Sadegh Zare , Mostafa Fakhrahmad

Clustering is an underspecified task: there are no universal criteria for what makes a good clustering. This is especially true for relational data, where similarity can be based on the features of individuals, the relationships between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-29 Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

We propose a kernel regression method to predict a target signal lying over a graph when an input observation is given. The input and the output could be two different physical quantities. In particular, the input may not be a graph signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Arun Venkitaraman , Saikat Chatterjee , Peter Händel

Network-valued data are encountered in a wide range of applications and pose challenges in learning due to their complex structure and absence of vertex correspondence. Typical examples of such problems include classification or grouping of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Leena Chennuru Vankadara , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

Proximity measures on graphs have a variety of applications in network analysis, including community detection. Previously they have been mainly studied in the context of networks without attributes. If node attributes are taken into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Rinat Aynulin , Pavel Chebotarev

We study clustering on graphs with multiple edge types. Our main motivation is that similarities between objects can be measured in many different metrics. For instance similarity between two papers can be based on common authors, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Matthew Rocklin , Ali Pinar

Connected clustering denotes a family of constrained clustering problems in which we are given a distance metric and an undirected connectivity graph $G$ that can be completely unrelated to the metric. The aim is to partition the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jan Eube , Heiko Röglin

This paper proposes a new graph proximity measure. This measure is a derivative of network reliability. By analyzing its properties and comparing it against other proximity measures through graph examples, we demonstrate that it is more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Haifeng Qian , Hui Wan , Mark N. Wegman , Luis A. Lastras , Ruchir Puri

We present novel graph kernels for graphs with node and edge labels that have ordered neighborhoods, i.e. when neighbor nodes follow an order. Graphs with ordered neighborhoods are a natural data representation for evolving graphs where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Moez Draief , Konstantin Kutzkov , Kevin Scaman , Milan Vojnovic

A measure of distance between two clusterings has important applications, including clustering validation and ensemble clustering. Generally, such distance measure provides navigation through the space of possible clusterings. Mostly used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Reihaneh Rabbany , Osmar R. Zaïane

Given a social network, which of its nodes are more central? This question has been asked many times in sociology, psychology and computer science, and a whole plethora of centrality measures (a.k.a. centrality indices, or rankings) were…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Paolo Boldi , Sebastiano Vigna

A widely-used operation on graphs is local clustering, i.e., extracting a well-characterized community around a seed node without the need to process the whole graph. Recently local motif clustering has been proposed: it looks for a local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Adil Chhabra , Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Christian Schulz