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Hierarchical clustering is a popular unsupervised data analysis method. For many real-world applications, we would like to exploit prior information about the data that imposes constraints on the clustering hierarchy, and is not captured by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh , Moses Charikar

Correlation clustering seeks a partition of the vertex set of a given graph/network into groups of closely related, or just close enough, vertices so that elements of different groups are not close to each other. The problem has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Lucas Isenmann , Sergio Thoumi

Clustering is an unsupervised technique of Data Mining. It means grouping similar objects together and separating the dissimilar ones. Each object in the data set is assigned a class label in the clustering process using a distance measure.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-10-13 Parul Agarwal , M. Afshar Alam , Ranjit Biswas

Correlation Clustering (CC) is a foundational problem in unsupervised learning that models binary similarity relations using labeled graphs. While classical CC has been widely studied, many real-world applications involve more nuanced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chenglin Fan , Dahoon Lee , Euiwoong Lee

Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning. The focus of this paper is the Correlation Clustering functional which combines positive and negative affinities between the data points. The contribution of this paper is two fold:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Shai Bagon , Meirav Galun

Correlation Clustering is a powerful graph partitioning model that aims to cluster items based on the notion of similarity between items. An instance of the Correlation Clustering problem consists of a graph $G$ (not necessarily complete)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Timothy Zhou

Matrices are two-dimensional data structures allowing one to conceptually organize information. For example, adjacency matrices are useful to store the links of a network; correlation matrices are simple ways to arrange gene co-expression…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-09-29 Flaviano Morone

Correlation clustering provides a method for separating the vertices of a signed graph into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance. The main goal in this type of clustering is to minimize the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Leila Parsaei-Majd

We propose a clustering-based generalized low rank approximation method, which takes advantage of appealing features from both the generalized low rank approximation of matrices (GLRAM) and cluster analysis. It exploits a more general form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Yujun Zhu , Jie Zhu , Hizba Arshad , Zhongming Wang , Ju Ming

In this paper, we propose and study a semi-random model for the Correlation Clustering problem on arbitrary graphs G. We give two approximation algorithms for Correlation Clustering instances from this model. The first algorithm finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We explore Cluster Editing and its generalization Correlation Clustering with a new operation called permissive vertex splitting which addresses finding overlapping clusters in the face of uncertain information. We determine that both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Matthias Bentert , Alex Crane , Pål Grønås Drange , Felix Reidl , Blair D. Sullivan

The objective of clustering is to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify geometrical structures which might reside there, without assuming any prior knowledge on the characteristics of the data. The problem can be seen as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Luis-Evaristo Caraballo , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher

Cluster analysis is one of the essential tasks in data mining and knowledge discovery. Each type of data poses unique challenges in achieving relatively efficient partitioning of the data into homogeneous groups. While the algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Ruben A. Gevorgyan , Yenok B. Hakobyan

In this paper we study the problem of correlation clustering under fairness constraints. In the classic correlation clustering problem, we are given a complete graph where each edge is labeled positive or negative. The goal is to obtain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Saba Ahmadi , Sainyam Galhotra , Barna Saha , Roy Schwartz

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

Subspace clustering refers to the problem of segmenting a set of data points approximately drawn from a union of multiple linear subspaces. Aiming at the subspace clustering problem, various subspace clustering algorithms have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Yu Song , Yiquan Wu

Bipartite Correlation clustering is the problem of generating a set of disjoint bi-cliques on a set of nodes while minimizing the symmetric difference to a bipartite input graph. The number or size of the output clusters is not constrained…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Nir Ailon , Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli , Edo Liberty

Clustering is a technique for the analysis of datasets obtained by empirical studies in several disciplines with a major application for biomedical research. Essentially, clustering algorithms are executed by machines aiming at finding…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-30 Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli , Santiago Fernandez Gonzalez , Rolf Krause

We study parallel algorithms for correlation clustering. Each pair among $n$ objects is labeled as either "similar" or "dissimilar". The goal is to partition the objects into arbitrarily many clusters while minimizing the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Soheil Behnezhad , Moses Charikar , Weiyun Ma , Li-Yang Tan

In this paper we consider the problem of clustering collections of very short texts using subspace clustering. This problem arises in many applications such as product categorisation, fraud detection, and sentiment analysis. The main…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-29 Hankui Peng , Nicos Pavlidis , Idris Eckley , Ioannis Tsalamanis