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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…

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Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge

We recently proposed a new ensemble clustering algorithm for graphs (ECG) based on the concept of consensus clustering. We validated our approach by replicating a study comparing graph clustering algorithms over benchmark graphs, showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Valérie Poulin , François Théberge

We present a novel hierarchical graph clustering algorithm inspired by modularity-based clustering techniques. The algorithm is agglomerative and based on a simple distance between clusters induced by the probability of sampling node pairs.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Thomas Bonald , Bertrand Charpentier , Alexis Galland , Alexandre Hollocou

Clustering points in a vector space or nodes in a graph is a ubiquitous primitive in statistical data analysis, and it is commonly used for exploratory data analysis. In practice, it is often of interest to "refine" or "improve" a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 K. Fountoulakis , M. Liu , D. F. Gleich , M. W. Mahoney

We propose a novel robust decentralized graph clustering algorithm that is provably equivalent to the popular spectral clustering approach. Our proposed method uses the existing wave equation clustering algorithm that is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Hongyu Zhu , Stefan Klus , Tuhin Sahai

Cluster deletion is an NP-hard graph clustering objective with applications in computational biology and social network analysis, where the goal is to delete a minimum number of edges to partition a graph into cliques. We first provide a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Vicente Balmaseda , Ying Xu , Yixin Cao , Nate Veldt

The community detection problem for graphs asks one to partition the n vertices V of a graph G into k communities, or clusters, such that there are many intracluster edges and few intercluster edges. Of course this is equivalent to finding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ming-Jun Lai , Daniel Mckenzie

In the present paper a novel graph-based approach to the shape decomposition problem is addressed. The shape is appropriately transformed into a visibility graph enriched with local neighborhood information. A two-step diffusion process is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Foteini Fotopoulou , George Economou

Spectral clustering is a popular and effective algorithm designed to find $k$ clusters in a graph $G$. In the classical spectral clustering algorithm, the vertices of $G$ are embedded into $\mathbb{R}^k$ using $k$ eigenvectors of the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peter Macgregor

The clustering method based on graph models has garnered increased attention for its widespread applicability across various knowledge domains. Its adaptability to integrate seamlessly with other relevant applications endows the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xinrun Xu , Manying Lv , Zhanbiao Lian , Yurong Wu , Jin Yan , Shan Jiang , Zhiming Ding

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning, with numerous applications in computer science and in analysing real-world data. In many real-world applications, we find that the clusters have a significant high-level…

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We use the k-core decomposition to visualize large scale complex networks in two dimensions. This decomposition, based on a recursive pruning of the least connected vertices, allows to disentangle the hierarchical structure of networks by…

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We propose a novel distributed algorithm to cluster graphs. The algorithm recovers the solution obtained from spectral clustering without the need for expensive eigenvalue/vector computations. We prove that, by propagating waves through the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Tuhin Sahai , Alberto Speranzon , Andrzej Banaszuk

The article introduces a new method for applying Quantum Clustering to graph structures. Quantum Clustering (QC) is a novel density-based unsupervised learning method that determines cluster centers by constructing a potential function. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Zhe Wang , ZhiJie He , Ding Liu

As one of the most well-studied cohesive subgraph models, the $k$-core is widely used to find graph nodes that are ``central'' or ``important'' in many applications, such as biological networks, social networks, ecological networks, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bin Guo , Emil Sekerinski , Lingyang Chu

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

Spectral clustering methodologies, when extended to accommodate signed graphs, have encountered notable limitations in effectively encapsulating inherent grouping relationships. Recent findings underscore a substantial deterioration in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Muhieddine Shebaro , Lucas Rusnak , Martin Burtscher , Jelena Tešić

Clustering nodes in heterophilous graphs is challenging as traditional methods assume that effective clustering is characterized by high intra-cluster and low inter-cluster connectivity. To address this, we introduce HeNCler-a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Sonny Achten , Zander Op de Beeck , Francesco Tonin , Volkan Cevher , Johan A. K. Suykens

Semi-supervised clustering is a basic problem in various applications. Most existing methods require knowledge of the ideal cluster number, which is often difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, satisfying the must-link constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Michael K. Ng , Zaikun Zhang