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Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

How to find a natural grouping of a large real data set? Clustering requires a balance between abstraction and representation. To identify clusters, we need to abstract from superfluous details of individual objects. But we also need a rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Claudia Plant , Lena G. M. Bauer , Christian Böhm

In a recent work, [19] studied the following "fair" variants of classical clustering problems such as $k$-means and $k$-median: given a set of $n$ data points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and a binary type associated to each data point, the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Identifying the number $K$ of clusters in a dataset is one of the most difficult problems in clustering analysis. A choice of $K$ that correctly characterizes the features of the data is essential for building meaningful clusters. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-06 Adriano Zanin Zambom , Julian A. Collazos , Ronaldo Dias

The $k$-means algorithm is one of the most widely used clustering heuristics. Despite its simplicity, analyzing its running time and quality of approximation is surprisingly difficult and can lead to deep insights that can be used to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Johannes Blömer , Christiane Lammersen , Melanie Schmidt , Christian Sohler

Data clustering is an approach to seek for structure in sets of complex data, i.e., sets of "objects". The main objective is to identify groups of objects which are similar to each other, e.g., for classification. Here, an introduction to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-02-17 Alexander K. Hartmann

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in data analytics and machine learning. In many situations, different clusterings of the same data set become relevant. For example, different algorithms for the same clustering task may return…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Steffen Borgwardt , Charles Viss

Networks (or graphs) appear as dominant structures in diverse domains, including sociology, biology, neuroscience and computer science. In most of the aforementioned cases graphs are directed - in the sense that there is directionality on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Measuring similarity between two objects is the core operation in existing clustering algorithms in grouping similar objects into clusters. This paper introduces a new similarity measure called point-set kernel which computes the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Ye Zhu

Cluster analysis is one of the primary data analysis technique in data mining and K-means is one of the commonly used partitioning clustering algorithm. In K-means algorithm, resulting set of clusters depend on the choice of initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Abhishek Kumar , Suresh Chandra Gupta

Graph node clustering is a fundamental unsupervised task. Existing methods typically train an encoder through selfsupervised learning and then apply K-means to the encoder output. Some methods use this clustering result directly as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Bowen Deng , Tong Wang , Lele Fu , Sheng Huang , Chuan Chen , Tao Zhang

Recent spectral clustering methods are a propular and powerful technique for data clustering. These methods need to solve the eigenproblem whose computational complexity is $O(n^3)$, where $n$ is the number of data samples. In this paper, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-11-26 Chunjing Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaoou Tang

In real-world application scenarios, the identification of groups poses a significant challenge due to possibly occurring outliers and existing noise variables. Therefore, there is a need for a clustering method which is capable of…

Clustered standard errors and approximate randomization tests are popular inference methods that allow for dependence within observations. However, they require researchers to know the cluster structure ex ante. We propose a procedure to…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-01-14 Yong Cai

Conventional machine learning algorithms cannot be applied until a data matrix is available to process. When the data matrix needs to be obtained from a relational database via a feature extraction query, the computation cost can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Ryan Curtin , Ben Moseley , Hung Q. Ngo , XuanLong Nguyen , Dan Olteanu , Maximilian Schleich

We present methods for k-means clustering on a stream with a focus on providing fast responses to clustering queries. Compared to the current state-of-the-art, our methods provide substantial improvement in the query time for cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yu Zhang , Kanat Tangwongsan , Srikanta Tirthapura

The structure of many complex networks includes edge directionality and weights on top of their topology. Network analysis that can seamlessly consider combination of these properties are desirable. In this paper, we study two important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Frederique Oggier , Silivanxay Phetsouvanh , Anwitaman Datta

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tools in the artificial intelligence area, particularly in the pattern recognition and learning theory. In this paper, we propose a simple, but novel approach for variance-based k-clustering tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yicheng Xu , Vincent Chau , Chenchen Wu , Yong Zhang , Vassilis Zissimopoulos , Yifei Zou

With the recent popularity of graphical clustering methods, there has been an increased focus on the information between samples. We show how learning cluster structure using edge features naturally and simultaneously determines the most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-09 Matt Barnes , Artur Dubrawski

We present an asymptotic criterion to determine the optimal number of clusters in k-means. We consider k-means as data compression, and propose to adopt the number of clusters that minimizes the estimated description length after…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-02 Hiromitsu Mizutani , Ryota Kanai