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Spectral clustering uses a graph Laplacian spectral embedding to enhance the cluster structure of some data sets. When the embedding is one dimensional, it can be used to sort the items (spectral ordering). A number of empirical results…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Antoine Recanati , Thomas Kerdreux , Alexandre d'Aspremont

In recent years, spectral clustering has become a standard method for data analysis used in a broad range of applications. In this paper we propose a new class of algorithms for multiway spectral clustering based on optimization of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-05 James Voss , Mikhail Belkin , Luis Rademacher

Clustering of data sets is a standard problem in many areas of science and engineering. The method of spectral clustering is based on embedding the data set using a kernel function, and using the top eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Geoffrey Schiebinger , Martin J. Wainwright , Bin Yu

A basic problem in spectral clustering is the following. If a solution obtained from the spectral relaxation is close to an integral solution, is it possible to find this integral solution even though they might be in completely different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Ali Kemal Sinop

We propose a novel model-reduction methodology for large-scale dynamic networks with tightly-connected components. First, the coherent groups are identified by a spectral clustering algorithm on the graph Laplacian matrix that models the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Hancheng Min , Enrique Mallada

The eigendeomposition of nearest-neighbor (NN) graph Laplacian matrices is the main computational bottleneck in spectral clustering. In this work, we introduce a highly-scalable, spectrum-preserving graph sparsification algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yongyu Wang , Zhuo Feng

We propose two related unsupervised clustering algorithms which, for input, take data assumed to be sampled from a uniform distribution supported on a metric space $X$, and output a clustering of the data based on the selection of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Antonio Rieser

Spectral clustering (SC) is a popular clustering technique to find strongly connected communities on a graph. SC can be used in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to implement pooling operations that aggregate nodes belonging to the same cluster.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Daniele Grattarola , Cesare Alippi

Laplacian mixture models identify overlapping regions of influence in unlabeled graph and network data in a scalable and computationally efficient way, yielding useful low-dimensional representations. By combining Laplacian eigenspace and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-03 Daniel Korenblum

We propose a pair of completely data-driven algorithms for unsupervised classification and dimension reduction, and we empirically study their performance on a number of data sets, both simulated data in three-dimensions and images from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-02 Araceli Guzmán-Tristán , Antonio Rieser

Large-scale multi-layer networks with large numbers of nodes, edges, and layers arise across various domains, which poses a great computational challenge for the downstream analysis. In this paper, we develop an efficient randomized…

Computation · Statistics 2025-01-10 Wenqing Su , Xiao Guo , Xiangyu Chang , Ying Yang

Spectral clustering is a standard approach to label nodes on a graph by studying the (largest or lowest) eigenvalues of a symmetric real matrix such as e.g. the adjacency or the Laplacian. Recently, it has been argued that using instead a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-30 Alaa Saade , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Complex time-varying networks are prominent models for a wide variety of spatiotemporal phenomena. The functioning of networks depends crucially on their connectivity, yet reliable techniques for learning communities in time-evolving…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Gary Froyland , Manu Kalia , Péter Koltai

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular clustering methods for finding clusters in a graph, which has found many applications in data mining. However, the input graph in those applications may have many missing edges due to error in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Pan Peng , Yuichi Yoshida

We present a simple spectral approach to the well-studied constrained clustering problem. It captures constrained clustering as a generalized eigenvalue problem with graph Laplacians. The algorithm works in nearly-linear time and provides…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Mihai Cucuringu , Ioannis Koutis , Sanjay Chawla , Gary Miller , Richard Peng

This paper proposes and analyzes a novel clustering algorithm that combines graph-based diffusion geometry with techniques based on density and mode estimation. The proposed method is suitable for data generated from mixtures of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-01 Mauro Maggioni , James M. Murphy

Spectral algorithms are classic approaches to clustering and community detection in networks. However, for sparse networks the standard versions of these algorithms are suboptimal, in some cases completely failing to detect communities even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Florent Krzakala , Cristopher Moore , Elchanan Mossel , Joe Neeman , Allan Sly , Lenka Zdeborová , Pan Zhang

This work studies the classical spectral clustering algorithm which embeds the vertices of some graph $G=(V_G, E_G)$ into $\mathbb{R}^k$ using $k$ eigenvectors of some matrix of $G$, and applies $k$-means to partition $V_G$ into $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Peter Macgregor , He Sun

We consider spectral clustering algorithms for community detection under a general bipartite stochastic block model (SBM). A modern spectral clustering algorithm consists of three steps: (1) regularization of an appropriate adjacency or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhixin Zhou , Arash A. Amini

We investigate a novel non-parametric regression-based clustering algorithm for longitudinal data analysis. Combining natural cubic splines with Gaussian mixture models (GMM), the algorithm can produce smooth cluster means that describe the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-20 Peter Mlakar , Tapio Nummi , Polona Oblak , Jana Faganeli Pucer