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Existing graph matching methods typically assume that there are similar structures between graphs and they are matchable. However, these assumptions do not align with real-world applications. This work addresses a more realistic scenario…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jiaxin Lu , Zetian Jiang , Tianzhe Wang , Junchi Yan

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

In this paper we study variants of the widely used spectral clustering that partitions a graph into k clusters by (1) embedding the vertices of a graph into a low-dimensional space using the bottom eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Richard Peng , He Sun , Luca Zanetti

Clustering is a well-known and important problem with numerous applications. The graph-based model is one of the typical cluster models. In the graph model, clusters are generally defined as cliques. However, such an approach might be too…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Ivan Bliznets , Nikolai Karpov

Clustering is a widely used technique in data mining applications for discovering patterns in underlying data. Most traditional clustering algorithms are limited to handling datasets that contain either numeric or categorical attributes.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

Clustering artworks is difficult for several reasons. On the one hand, recognizing meaningful patterns based on domain knowledge and visual perception is extremely hard. On the other hand, applying traditional clustering and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Giovanna Castellano , Gennaro Vessio

The explosive growth of complex datasets across various modalities necessitates advanced analytical tools that not only group data effectively but also provide human-understandable insights into the discovered structures. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Gabor Petnehazi , Bernadett Aradi

Higher-order graph clustering aims to partition the graph using frequently occurring subgraphs. Motif conductance is one of the most promising higher-order graph clustering models due to its strong interpretability. However, existing motif…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Longlong Lin , Tao Jia , Zeli Wang , Jin Zhao , Rong-Hua Li

Graph clustering aims to partition nodes into distinct clusters based on their similarity, thereby revealing relationships among nodes. Nevertheless, most existing methods do not fully utilize these edge weights. Leveraging edge weights in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haobing Liu , Yinuo Zhang , Tingting Wang , Ruobing Jiang , Yanwei Yu

This paper proposes an organized generalization of Newman and Girvan's modularity measure for graph clustering. Optimized via a deterministic annealing scheme, this measure produces topologically ordered graph clusterings that lead to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-09-08 Fabrice Rossi , Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix

The objective of clustering is to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify geometrical structures which might reside there, without assuming any prior knowledge on the characteristics of the data. The problem can be seen as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Luis-Evaristo Caraballo , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher

Cluster analysis plays a very important role in data analysis. In these years, cluster ensemble, as a cluster analysis tool, has drawn much attention for its robustness, stability, and accuracy. Many efforts have been done to combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Xuelong Li , Quanmao Lu , Yongsheng Dong , Dacheng Tao

Explainable clustering by axis-aligned decision trees was introduced by Moshkovitz et al. (2020) and has gained considerable interest. Prior work has focused on minimizing the price of explainability for specific clustering objectives,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tal Argov , Tal Wagner

We propose a multi-stage learning approach for pruning the search space of maximum clique enumeration, a fundamental computationally difficult problem arising in various network analysis tasks. In each stage, our approach learns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Marco Grassia , Juho Lauri , Sourav Dutta , Deepak Ajwani

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis where the goal is to detect sets of nodes that are well-connected to each other but sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. We present faster approximation algorithms for an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Vedangi Bengali , Nate Veldt

Correlation clustering provides a method for separating the vertices of a signed graph into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance. The main goal in this type of clustering is to minimize the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Leila Parsaei-Majd

Convex clustering is a recent stable alternative to hierarchical clustering. It formulates the recovery of progressively coalescing clusters as a regularized convex problem. While convex clustering was originally designed for handling…

Applications · Statistics 2019-12-12 Claire Donnat , Susan Holmes

Given a collection of vertex-aligned networks and an additional label-shuffled network, we propose procedures for leveraging the signal in the vertex-aligned collection to recover the labels of the shuffled network. We consider matching the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-31 Zhirui Li , Jesus Arroyo , Konstantinos Pantazis , Vince Lyzinski

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

The present paper is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. While the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs, we present an effective generalization, which we call higher-order spectral clustering. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Andrei Bobu , Maximilien Dreveton