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We study the complexity of finding an optimal hierarchical clustering of an unweighted similarity graph under the recently introduced Dasgupta objective function. We introduce a proof technique, called the normalization procedure, that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Svein Høgemo , Christophe Paul , Jan Arne Telle

This paper establishes the consistency of a family of graph-cut-based algorithms for clustering of data clouds. We consider point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. We investigate approaches to clustering based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-25 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Dejan Slepcev , James von Brecht , Thomas Laurent , Xavier Bresson

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning, with numerous applications in computer science and in analysing real-world data. In many real-world applications, we find that the clusters have a significant high-level…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Peter Macgregor

In today's data-driven digital era, the amount as well as complexity, such as multi-view, non-Euclidean, and multi-relational, of the collected data are growing exponentially or even faster. Clustering, which unsupervisely extracts valid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Zhao Kang , Xuanting Xie , Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan

We consider community detection from multiple correlated graphs sharing the same community structure. The correlated graphs are generated by independent subsampling of a parent graph sampled from the stochastic block model. The vertex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

Graph-based clustering methods have demonstrated the effectiveness in various applications. Generally, existing graph-based clustering methods first construct a graph to represent the input data and then partition it to generate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong

We revisit the theoretical performances of Spectral Clustering, a classical algorithm for graph partitioning that relies on the eigenvectors of a matrix representation of the graph. Informally, we show that Spectral Clustering works well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 George Tyler , Luca Zanetti

This paper studies clustering algorithms for dynamically evolving graphs $\{G_t\}$, in which new edges (and potential new vertices) are added into a graph, and the underlying cluster structure of the graph can gradually change. The paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Steinar Laenen , He Sun

This paper considers the problem of clustering a partially observed unweighted graph---i.e., one where for some node pairs we know there is an edge between them, for some others we know there is no edge, and for the remaining we do not know…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Yudong Chen , Ali Jalali , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

Regularization improves generalization of supervised models to out-of-sample data. Prior works have shown that prediction in the causal direction (effect from cause) results in lower testing error than the anti-causal direction. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Trent Kyono , Yao Zhang , Mihaela van der Schaar

Clustering graphs based on a comparison of the number of links within clusters and the expected value of this quantity in a random graph has gained a lot of attention and popularity in the last decade. Recently, Aldecoa and Marin proposed a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Tobias Fleck , Andrea Kappes , Dorothea Wagner

We consider the problem of testing graph cluster structure: given access to a graph $G=(V, E)$, can we quickly determine whether the graph can be partitioned into a few clusters with good inner conductance, or is far from any such graph?…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Ashish Chiplunkar , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna , Aida Mousavifar , Yuval Peres

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 coexistence of sparsity and clustering (non-vanishing average fraction of triangles per node) is one of the few structural features that, irrespective of finer details, are ubiquitously observed across large real-world networks. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alessio Catanzaro , Remco van der Hofstad , Diego Garlaschelli

Graph clustering is an important technique to understand the relationships between the vertices in a big graph. In this paper, we propose a novel random-walk-based graph clustering method. The proposed method restricts the reach of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Honglei Zhang , Jenni Raitoharju , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

We take an image science perspective on the problem of determining brain network connectivity given functional activity. But adapting the concept of image resolution to this problem, we provide a new perspective on network partitioning for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-14 Keith Dillon , Yu-Ping Wang

We focus on spectral clustering of unlabeled graphs and review some results on clustering methods which achieve weak or strong consistent identification in data generated by such models. We also present a new algorithm which appears to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

Spectral clustering is a powerful method for finding structure in a dataset through the eigenvectors of a similarity matrix. It often outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as $k$-means when the structure of the individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Paola Favati , Grazia Lotti , Ornella Menchi , Francesco Romani

Motivated by applications in social and biological network analysis, we introduce a new form of agnostic clustering termed~\emph{motif correlation clustering}, which aims to minimize the cost of clustering errors associated with both edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Pan Li , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

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