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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

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

Dynamic graph clustering aims to detect and track time-varying clusters in dynamic graphs, revealing the evolutionary mechanisms of complex real-world dynamic systems. Matrix factorization-based methods are promising approaches for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Dongyuan Li , Satoshi Kosugi , Ying Zhang , Manabu Okumura , Feng Xia , Renhe Jiang

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

Identifying clusters of similar elements in a set is a common task in data analysis. With the immense growth of data and physical limitations on single processor speed, it is necessary to find efficient parallel algorithms for clustering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Mélanie Cambus , Davin Choo , Havu Miikonen , Jara Uitto

We present a global optimization algorithm for clustering data given the ratio of likelihoods that each pair of data points is in the same cluster or in different clusters. To define a clustering solution in terms of pairwise relationships,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Vijay Kumar , Dan Levy

Data clustering with uneven distribution in high level noise is challenging. Currently, HDBSCAN is considered as the SOTA algorithm for this problem. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering algorithm based on what we call graph of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Zhangyang Gao , Haitao Lin , Stan. Z Li

A balanced partition is a clustering of a graph into a given number of equal-sized parts. For instance, the Bisection problem asks to remove at most k edges in order to partition the vertices into two equal-sized parts. We prove that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-12 René van Bevern , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Manuel Sorge , Ondřej Suchý

The paper presents the algorithm for clustering a dataset by grouping the optimal, from the point of view of the BIC criterion, number of Gaussian clusters into the optimal, from the point of view of their statistical separability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Oleg I. Berngardt

Graph partition is a key component to achieve workload balance and reduce job completion time in parallel graph processing systems. Among the various partition strategies, edge partition has demonstrated more promising performance in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Zhenyu Guo , Mingyu Xiao , Yi Zhou , Dongxiang Zhang , Kian-Lee Tan

Clustering under pairwise constraints is an important knowledge discovery tool that enables the learning of appropriate kernels or distance metrics to improve clustering performance. These pairwise constraints, which come in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Benedikt Boecking , Vincent Jeanselme , Artur Dubrawski

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to the increasing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest. Scalability problems…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Kimon Fountoulakis , David F. Gleich , Michael W. Mahoney

For each partition of a data set into a given number of parts there is a partition such that every part is as much as possible a good model (an "algorithmic sufficient statistic") for the data in that part. Since this can be done for every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Andrew R. Cohen , Paul M. B. Vitányi

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

Hierarchical clustering is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, organizing data into a tree of clusterings from which a partition can be chosen. This paper generalizes these ideas by proving that, for any reasonable hierarchy, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andrew Draganov , Pascal Weber , Rasmus Skibdahl Melanchton Jørgensen , Anna Beer , Claudia Plant , Ira Assent

The simulation of the physical movement of multi-body systems at an atomistic level, with forces calculated from a quantum mechanical description of the electrons, motivates a graph partitioning problem studied in this article. Several…

There are various approaches to graph learning for data clustering, incorporating different spectral and structural constraints through diverse graph structures. Some methods rely on bipartite graph models, where nodes are divided into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Amirhossein Javaheri , Daniel P. Palomar

Spectral clustering refers to a family of unsupervised learning algorithms that compute a spectral embedding of the original data based on the eigenvectors of a similarity graph. This non-linear transformation of the data is both the key of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Nicolas Tremblay , Andreas Loukas

Motivated by applications in community detection and dense subgraph discovery, we consider new clustering objectives in hypergraphs and bipartite graphs. These objectives are parameterized by one or more resolution parameters in order to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth , David F. Gleich

When approaching a clustering problem, choosing the right clustering algorithm and parameters is essential, as each clustering algorithm is proficient at finding clusters of a particular nature. Due to the unsupervised nature of clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Elizabeth Ditton , Anne Swinbourne , Trina Myers , Mitchell Scovell