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Graph clustering, or community detection, is the task of identifying groups of closely related objects in a large network. In this paper we introduce a new community-detection framework called LambdaCC that is based on a specially weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Nate Veldt , David Gleich , Anthony Wirth

Community-based graph clustering is one of the most popular topics in the analysis of complex social networks. This type of clustering involves grouping vertices that are considered to share more connections, whereas vertices in different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wenshun Teng , Qingna Li

We are interested in multilayer graph clustering, which aims at dividing the graph nodes into categories or communities. To do so, we propose to learn a clustering-friendly embedding of the graph nodes by solving an optimization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

We consider a framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, where the goal is to cluster (equivalently, to color) objects based on the primary type of multiway interactions they participate in. One well-studied objective is to color…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Alex Crane , Thomas Stanley , Blair D. Sullivan , Nate Veldt

The higher-order correlation clustering problem for a graph $G$ and costs associated with cliques of $G$ consists in finding a clustering of $G$ so as to minimize the sum of the costs of those cliques whose nodes all belong to the same…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 David Stein , Bjoern Andres , Silvia Di Gregorio

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a weighted graph $G$ with its edges labeled as "similar" or "dissimilar" by a binary classifier. The goal is to produce a clustering that minimizes the weight of "disagreements": the sum…

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

We present a probabilistic graphical model formulation for the graph clustering problem. This enables to locally represent uncertainty of image partitions by approximate marginal distributions in a mathematically substantiated way, and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Jörg Hendrik Kappes , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy , Tamir Hazan , Christoph Schnörr

Graph clustering problems typically aim to partition the graph nodes such that two nodes belong to the same partition set if and only if they are similar. Correlation Clustering is a graph clustering formulation which: (1) takes as input a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

The most commonly used method to tackle the graph partitioning problem in practice is the multilevel approach. During a coarsening phase, a multilevel graph partitioning algorithm reduces the graph size by iteratively contracting nodes and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Henning Meyerhenke , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

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

We introduce a lower bounding technique for the min max correlation clustering problem and, based on this technique, a combinatorial 4-approximation algorithm for complete graphs. This improves upon the previous best known approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Holger Heidrich , Jannik Irmai , Bjoern Andres

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

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

Spectral clustering has become one of the most widely used clustering techniques when the structure of the individual clusters is non-convex or highly anisotropic. Yet, despite its immense popularity, there exists fairly little theory about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-16 Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

In this work, a graph partitioning problem in a fixed number of connected components is considered. Given an undirected graph with costs on the edges, the problem consists of partitioning the set of nodes into a fixed number of subsets with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Mishelle Cordero , Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo , Diego Recalde , Ramiro Torres , Polo Vaca

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem that has been extensively studied both in theory and practice. The problem has been defined in several ways in literature and most of them have been proven to be NP-Hard. Due to their high practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Sumit Singh

Ashtiani et al. (NIPS 2016) introduced a semi-supervised framework for clustering (SSAC) where a learner is allowed to make same-cluster queries. More specifically, in their model, there is a query oracle that answers queries of the form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Nir Ailon , Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal

Given a complete graph $G = (V, E)$ where each edge is labeled $+$ or $-$, the Correlation Clustering problem asks to partition $V$ into clusters to minimize the number of $+$edges between different clusters plus the number of $-$edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Alantha Newman

Local clustering aims at extracting a local structure inside a graph without the necessity of knowing the entire graph structure. As the local structure is usually small in size compared to the entire graph, one can think of it as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhaiming Shen , Ming-Jun Lai , Sheng Li

An instance of the Connected Maximum Cut problem consists of an undirected graph G = (V, E) and the goal is to find a subset of vertices S $\subseteq$ V that maximizes the number of edges in the cut \delta(S) such that the induced graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Guy Kortsarz , Robert MacDavid , Manish Purohit , Kanthi Sarpatwar