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In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a complete weighted graph $G$ with its edges labeled as "similar" and "dissimilar" by a noisy binary classifier. For a clustering $\mathcal{C}$ of graph $G$, a similar edge is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jafar Jafarov , Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev

In order to study real-world systems, many applied works model them through signed graphs, i.e. graphs whose edges are labeled as either positive or negative. Such a graph is considered as structurally balanced when it can be partitioned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Nejat Arinik , Rosa Figueiredo , Vincent Labatut

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

We introduce fast algorithms for correlation clustering with respect to the Min Max objective that provide constant factor approximations on complete graphs. Our algorithms are the first purely combinatorial approximation algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Sami Davies , Benjamin Moseley , Heather Newman

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

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Nikos Parotsidis , Jakub Tarnawski

Correlation Clustering is a fundamental and widely-studied problem in unsupervised learning and data mining. The input is a graph and the goal is to construct a clustering minimizing the number of inter-cluster edges plus the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Shi Li , Euiwoong Lee , David Rasmussen Lolck , Alantha Newman , Mikkel Thorup , Lukas Vogl , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

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

Correlation clustering is a widely studied framework for clustering based on pairwise similarity and dissimilarity scores, but its best approximation algorithms rely on impractical linear programming relaxations. We present faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nate Veldt

This work initiates the study of memory-query tradeoffs for graph problems, with a focus on correlation clustering. Correlation clustering asks for a partition of the vertices that minimizes disagreements: non-edges inside clusters plus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sumegha Garg , Songhua He , Periklis A. Papakonstantinou

In the correlation clustering problem for complete signed graphs, the input is a complete signed graph with edges weighted as $+1$ (denote recommendation to put this pair in the same cluster) or $-1$ (recommending to put this pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ali Shakiba

Hypergraph clustering is a basic algorithmic primitive for analyzing complex datasets and systems characterized by multiway interactions, such as group email conversations, groups of co-purchased retail products, and co-authorship data.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Nate Veldt

In Bipartite Correlation Clustering (BCC) we are given a complete bipartite graph $G$ with `+' and `-' edges, and we seek a vertex clustering that maximizes the number of agreements: the number of all `+' edges within clusters plus all `-'…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Megasthenis Asteris , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We present a new approach for solving (minimum disagreement) correlation clustering that results in sublinear algorithms with highly efficient time and space complexity for this problem. In particular, we obtain the following algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sepehr Assadi , Chen Wang

In machine learning, correlation clustering is an important problem whose goal is to partition the individuals into groups that correlate with their pairwise similarities as much as possible. In this work, we revisit the correlation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Daogao Liu

Clustering is a fundamental tool for analyzing large data sets. A rich body of work has been devoted to designing data-stream algorithms for the relevant optimization problems such as $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. Such algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Kook Jin Ahn , Graham Cormode , Sudipto Guha , Andrew McGregor , Anthony Wirth

The NP-hard problem of correlation clustering is to partition a signed graph such that the number of conflicts between the partition and the signature of the graph is minimized. This paper studies graph signatures that allow the optimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jan-Hendrik Lange

In this paper, we reduce the complexity of approximating the correlation clustering problem from $O(m\times\left( 2+ \alpha (G) \right)+n)$ to $O(m+n)$ for any given value of $\varepsilon$ for a complete signed graph with $n$ vertices and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ali Shakiba

According to the structural balance theory, a signed graph is considered structurally balanced when it can be partitioned into a number of modules such that positive and negative edges are respectively located inside and between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Nejat Arinik , Vincent Labatut , Rosa Figueiredo

A common way of partitioning graphs is through minimum cuts. One drawback of classical minimum cut methods is that they tend to produce small groups, which is why more balanced variants such as normalized and ratio cuts have seen more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Chakib Fettal , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif