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How can we find a good graph clustering of a real-world network, that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new graph clustering algorithm Dcut from a density point of view.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Junming Shao , Qinli Yang , Jinhu Liu , Stefan Kramer

This paper proposes a simple but effective graph-based agglomerative algorithm, for clustering high-dimensional data. We explore the different roles of two fundamental concepts in graph theory, indegree and outdegree, in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Wei Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Deli Zhao , Xiaoou Tang

In the Categorical Clustering problem, we are given a set of vectors (matrix) A={a_1,\ldots,a_n} over \Sigma^m, where \Sigma is a finite alphabet, and integers k and B. The task is to partition A into k clusters such that the median…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Nidhi Purohit

We study the generalization of Correlation Clustering which incorporates fairness constraints via the notion of fairlets. The corresponding Fair Correlation Clustering problem has been studied from several perspectives to date, but has so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Johannes Blaha , Robert Ganian , Katharina Gillig , Jonathan S. Højlev , Simon Wietheger

The cyclability of a graph is the maximum integer $k$ for which every $k$ vertices lie on a cycle. The algorithmic version of the problem, given a graph $G$ and a non-negative integer $k,$ decide whether the cyclability of $G$ is at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Petr A. Golovach , Marcin Kamiński , Spyridon Maniatis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

The connected $k$-median problem is a constrained clustering problem that combines distance-based $k$-clustering with connectivity information. The problem allows to input a metric space and an unweighted undirected connectivity graph that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jan Eube , Kelin Luo , Dorian Reineccius , Heiko Röglin , Melanie Schmidt

Clustering is a popular form of unsupervised learning for geometric data. Unfortunately, many clustering algorithms lead to cluster assignments that are hard to explain, partially because they depend on all the features of the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

We present new results for LambdaCC and MotifCC, two recently introduced variants of the well-studied correlation clustering problem. Both variants are motivated by applications to network analysis and community detection, and have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-26 David F. Gleich , Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth

Spectral clustering methodologies, when extended to accommodate signed graphs, have encountered notable limitations in effectively encapsulating inherent grouping relationships. Recent findings underscore a substantial deterioration in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Muhieddine Shebaro , Lucas Rusnak , Martin Burtscher , Jelena Tešić

Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu

We propose a novel perspective on varied-density clustering for high-dimensional data by framing it as a label propagation process in neighborhood graphs that adapt to local density variations. Our method formally connects density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ninh Pham , Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs

In recent years, crowdsourcing, aka human aided computation has emerged as an effective platform for solving problems that are considered complex for machines alone. Using human is time-consuming and costly due to monetary compensations.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Arya Mazumdar , Barna Saha

Given an $n$-vertex non-negatively real-weighted graph $G$, whose vertices are partitioned into a set of $k$ clusters, a \emph{clustered network design problem} on $G$ consists of solving a given network design optimization problem on $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Mattia D'Emidio , Luca Forlizzi , Daniele Frigioni , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

One of the most useful measures of cluster quality is the modularity of a partition, which measures the difference between the number of the edges joining vertices from the same cluster and the expected number of such edges in a random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Hristo Djidjev

Connectivity (or equivalently, unweighted maximum flow) is an important measure in graph theory and combinatorial optimization. Given a graph $G$ with vertices $s$ and $t$, the connectivity $\lambda(s,t)$ from $s$ to $t$ is defined to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Shyan Akmal

Coresets have become an invaluable tool for solving $k$-means and kernel $k$-means clustering problems on large datasets with small numbers of clusters. On the other hand, spectral clustering works well on sparse graphs and has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ben Jourdan , Gregory Schwartzman , Peter Macgregor , He Sun

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

Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Yudong Chen , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

Here we show that, given a set of clusters C on a set of taxa X, where |X|=n, it is possible to determine in time f(k).poly(n) whether there exists a level-<= k network (i.e. a network where each biconnected component has reticulation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Steven Kelk , Celine Scornavacca