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Clustering algorithms are of fundamental importance when dealing with large unstructured datasets and discovering new patterns and correlations therein, with applications ranging from scientific research to medical imaging and marketing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Duarte Magano , Lorenzo Buffoni , Yasser Omar

Modern network analysis often involves multi-layer network data in which the nodes are aligned, and the edges on each layer represent one of the multiple relations among the nodes. Current literature on multi-layer network data is mostly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Wenqing Su , Xiao Guo , Xiangyu Chang , Ying Yang

Coresets have become an invaluable tool for solving $k$-means and kernel $k$-means clustering problems on large datasets with small numbers of clusters. On the other hand, spectral clustering works well on sparse graphs and has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ben Jourdan , Gregory Schwartzman , Peter Macgregor , He Sun

This paper deals with unsupervised clustering with feature selection. The problem is to estimate both labels and a sparse projection matrix of weights. To address this combinatorial non-convex problem maintaining a strict control on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Cyprien Gilet , Marie Deprez , Jean-Baptiste Caillau , Michel Barlaud

This paper proposes an original approach to cluster multi-component data sets, including an estimation of the number of clusters. From the construction of a minimal spanning tree with Prim's algorithm, and the assumption that the vertices…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-09-25 Laurent Galluccio , Olivier J. J. Michel , Pierre Comon , Eric Slezak , Alfred O. Hero

We propose and study a novel graph clustering method for data with an intrinsic network structure. Similar to spectral clustering, we exploit an intrinsic network structure of data to construct Euclidean feature vectors. These feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Y. SarcheshmehPour , Y. Tian , L. Zhang , A. Jung

Scale invariance (fractality) is a prominent feature of the large-scale behavior of many stochastic systems. In this work, we construct an algorithm for the statistical identification of the Hurst distribution (in particular, the scaling…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-31 Patrice Abry , Gustavo Didier , Oliver Orejola , Herwig Wendt

We present a principled spectral approach to the well-studied constrained clustering problem. It reduces clustering to a generalized eigenvalue problem on Laplacians. The method works in nearly-linear time and provides concrete guarantees…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Mihai Cucuringu , Ioannis Koutis , Sanjay Chawla

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

We consider the exact recovery problem in the hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM) with $k$ blocks of equal size. More precisely, we consider a random $d$-uniform hypergraph $H$ with $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters of size $s…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Sam Cole , Yizhe Zhu

Model-based clustering defines population level clusters relative to a model that embeds notions of similarity. Algorithms tailored to such models yield estimated clusters with a clear statistical interpretation. We take this view here and…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-14 Florentina Bunea , Christophe Giraud , Xi Luo , Martin Royer , Nicolas Verzelen

We propose a spectral clustering method based on local principal components analysis (PCA). After performing local PCA in selected neighborhoods, the algorithm builds a nearest neighbor graph weighted according to a discrepancy between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Ery Arias-Castro , Gilad Lerman , Teng Zhang

One of the fundamental problems in network analysis is detecting community structure in multi-layer networks, of which each layer represents one type of edge information among the nodes. We propose integrative spectral clustering approaches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Sihan Huang , Haolei Weng , Yang Feng

Spectral clustering techniques are valuable tools in signal processing and machine learning for partitioning complex data sets. The effectiveness of spectral clustering stems from constructing a non-linear embedding based on creating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki

Clustering is a fundamental task for analyzing unlabeled data based solely on its underlying distribution. Spectral clustering is a clustering method that represents a dataset as a graph and uses the relationships between data points.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Hyeong-Gyu Kim , Siheon Park , June-Koo Kevin Rhee

We study the problem of non-parametric clustering of data sequences, where each data sequence comprises independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples generated from an unknown distribution. The true clusters are the clusters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 G Dhinesh Chandran , Kota Srinivas Reddy , Srikrishna Bhashyam

The analysis of continously larger datasets is a task of major importance in a wide variety of scientific fields. In this sense, cluster analysis algorithms are a key element of exploratory data analysis, due to their easiness in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-10 Marco Capó , Aritz Pérez , Jose A. Lozano

We propose a novel clustering method that is based on physical intuition derived from quantum mechanics. Starting with given data points, we construct a scale-space probability function. Viewing the latter as the lowest eigenstate of a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 David Horn , Assaf Gottlieb

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

In this work, the possibility of clustering correlated random variables was examined, both because of their mutual similarity and because of their similarity to the principal components. The k-means algorithm and spectral algorithms were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Zenon Gniazdowski , Dawid Kaliszewski