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In many real-world contexts, such as social or transport networks, data exhibit both structural connectivity and node-level attributes. For example, roads in a transport network can be characterized not only by their connectivity but also…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-18 Ioana Gavra , Ketsia Guichard-Sustowski , Loïc Le Marrec

We introduce Qlustering, a quantum-inspired algorithm for unsupervised learning that leverages network-based quantum transport to perform data clustering. In contrast to traditional distance-based methods, Qlustering treats the steady-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Shmuel Lorber , Yonatan Dubi

Co-clustering, that is, partitioning a numerical matrix into homogeneous submatrices, has many applications ranging from bioinformatics to election analysis. Many interesting variants of co-clustering are NP-hard. We focus on the basic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Laurent Bulteau , Vincent Froese , Sepp Hartung , Rolf Niedermeier

Biclustering is a class of techniques that simultaneously clusters the rows and columns of a matrix to sort heterogeneous data into homogeneous blocks. Although many algorithms have been proposed to find biclusters, existing methods suffer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-11 Michelle N. Ngo , Dustin S. Pluta , Alexander N. Ngo , Babak Shahbaba

A novel nonparametric clustering algorithm is proposed using the interpoint distances between the members of the data to reveal the inherent clustering structure existing in the given set of data, where we apply the classical nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-02 Soumita Modak

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning approach. Many clustering algorithms -- such as $k$-means -- rely on the euclidean distance as a similarity measure, which is often not the most relevant metric for high dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Aude Genevay , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Jean-Philippe Vert

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

The topological patterns exhibited by many real-world networks motivate the development of topology-based methods for assessing the similarity of networks. However, extracting topological structure is difficult, especially for large and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Tananun Songdechakraiwut , Bryan M. Krause , Matthew I. Banks , Kirill V. Nourski , Barry D. Van Veen

Clustering is widely used in unsupervised learning to find homogeneous groups of observations within a dataset. However, clustering mixed-type data remains a challenge, as few existing approaches are suited for this task. This study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Badih Ghattas , Alvaro Sanchez San-Benito

Deep clustering algorithms combine representation learning and clustering by jointly optimizing a clustering loss and a non-clustering loss. In such methods, a deep neural network is used for representation learning together with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Abien Fred Agarap , Arnulfo P. Azcarraga

As a kind of basic machine learning method, clustering algorithms group data points into different categories based on their similarity or distribution. We present a clustering algorithm by finding hyper-planes to distinguish the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Luhong Diao , Jinying Gao1 , Manman Deng

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning methodology where unlabeled elements/objects are grouped together aiming to the construction of well-established clusters that their elements are classified according to their similarity. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-20 Dimitrios Saligkaras , Vasileios E. Papageorgiou

Co-clustering exploits the duality of instances and features to simultaneously uncover meaningful groups in both dimensions, often outperforming traditional clustering in high-dimensional or sparse data settings. Although recent deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ashwin Vinod , Chandrajit Bajaj

Clustering is a popular machine learning technique for data mining that can process and analyze datasets to automatically reveal sample distribution patterns. Since the ubiquitous categorical data naturally lack a well-defined metric space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yiqun Zhang , Mingjie Zhao , Hong Jia , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung

We present a discriminative clustering approach in which the feature representation can be learned from data and moreover leverage labeled data. Representation learning can give a similarity-based clustering method the ability to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-21 Corinne Jones , Vincent Roulet , Zaid Harchaoui

We propose a new clustering method based on optimal transportation. We solve optimal transportation with variational principles, and investigate the use of power diagrams as transportation plans for aggregating arbitrary domains into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Liang Mi , Wen Zhang , Xianfeng Gu , Yalin Wang

A novel approach rooted on the notion of consensus clustering, a strategy developed for community detection in complex networks, is proposed to cope with the heterogeneity that characterizes connectivity matrices in health and disease. The…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-09 Javier Rasero , Mario Pellicoro , Leonardo Angelini , Jesus M. Cortes , Daniele Marinazzo , Sebastiano Stramaglia

Human mobility clustering is an important problem for understanding human mobility behaviors (e.g., work and school commutes). Existing methods typically contain two steps: choosing or learning a mobility representation and applying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Haoji Hu , Haowen Lin , Yao-Yi Chiang

This paper presents a new multitask learning framework that learns a shared representation among the tasks, incorporating both task and feature clusters. The jointly-induced clusters yield a shared latent subspace where task relationships…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-06 Keerthiram Murugesan , Jaime Carbonell , Yiming Yang

This article establishes the performance of stochastic blockmodels in addressing the co-clustering problem of partitioning a binary array into subsets, assuming only that the data are generated by a nonparametric process satisfying the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-17 David Choi , Patrick J. Wolfe