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Clustering is one of the most common unsupervised learning tasks in machine learning and data mining. Clustering algorithms have been used in a plethora of applications across several scientific fields. However, there has been limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Quang N. Tran , Ba-Ngu Vo , Dinh Phung , Ba-Tuong Vo

Correlation clustering is a ubiquitous paradigm in unsupervised machine learning where addressing unfairness is a major challenge. Motivated by this, we study Fair Correlation Clustering where the data points may belong to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Sara Ahmadian , Maryam Negahbani

We uncover that current objective-based Divisive Hierarchical Clustering (DHC) methods produce a dendrogram that does not have three desired properties i.e., no unwarranted splitting, group similar clusters into a same subset, ground-truth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kaifeng Zhang , Kai Ming Ting , Tianrun Liang , Qiuran Zhao

Clustering is an important topic in algorithms, and has a number of applications in machine learning, computer vision, statistics, and several other research disciplines. Traditional objectives of graph clustering are to find clusters with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Steinar Laenen , He Sun

Clustering a graph means identifying internally dense subgraphs which are only sparsely interconnected. Formalizations of this notion lead to measures that quantify the quality of a clustering and to algorithms that actually find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Robert Görke , Andrea Schumm , Dorothea Wagner

One of the most widely used techniques for data clustering is agglomerative clustering. Such algorithms have been long used across many different fields ranging from computational biology to social sciences to computer vision in part…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Maria-Florina Balcan , Yingyu Liang , Pramod Gupta

Clustering is a widely-used data mining tool, which aims to discover partitions of similar items in data. We introduce a new clustering paradigm, \emph{accordant clustering}, which enables the discovery of (predefined) group level insights.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Amit Dhurandhar , Margareta Ackerman , Xiang Wang

Consensus clustering fuses diverse basic partitions (i.e., clustering results obtained from conventional clustering methods) into an integrated one, which has attracted increasing attention in both academic and industrial areas due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongfu Liu , Zhiqiang Tao , Zhengming Ding

The hyperlink prediction task, that of proposing new links between webpages, can be used to improve search engines, expand the visibility of web pages, and increase the connectivity and navigability of the web. Hyperlink prediction is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Eduard Ayguadé , Jesús Labarta , Ulises Cortés , Toyotaro Suzumura

Getting a robust time-series clustering with best choice of distance measure and appropriate representation is always a challenge. We propose a novel mechanism to identify the clusters combining learned compact representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Soma Bandyopadhyay , Anish Datta , Arpan Pal

The advent of ML-driven decision-making and policy formation has led to an increasing focus on algorithmic fairness. As clustering is one of the most commonly used unsupervised machine learning approaches, there has naturally been a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-30 Abhisek Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

Link prediction is an open problem in the complex network, which attracts much research interest currently. However, little attention has been paid to the relation between network structure and the performance of prediction methods. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Xu Feng , Jichang Zhao , Ke Xu

Classification and clustering have been studied separately in machine learning and computer vision. Inspired by the recent success of deep learning models in solving various vision problems (e.g., object recognition, semantic segmentation)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Ali Borji , Aysegul Dundar

Hierarchical forecasting is a key problem in many practical multivariate forecasting applications - the goal is to simultaneously predict a large number of correlated time series that are arranged in a pre-specified aggregation hierarchy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Biswajit Paria , Rajat Sen , Amr Ahmed , Abhimanyu Das

Federated Clustering (FC) is an emerging and promising solution in exploring data distribution patterns from distributed and privacy-protected data in an unsupervised manner. Existing FC methods implicitly rely on the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yue Zhang , Chuanlong Qiu , Xinfa Liao , Yiqun Zhang

In this paper we offer a new perspective on the well established agglomerative clustering algorithm, focusing on recovery of hierarchical structure. We recommend a simple variant of the standard algorithm, in which clusters are merged by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Annie Gray , Alexander Modell , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy , Nick Whiteley

Hierarchical clustering is a common algorithm in data analysis. It is unique among many clustering algorithms in that it draws dendrograms based on the distance of data under a certain metric, and group them. It is widely used in all areas…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 Heng Yu , Xiaolan Hou

Ashtiani et al. (NIPS 2016) introduced a semi-supervised framework for clustering (SSAC) where a learner is allowed to make same-cluster queries. More specifically, in their model, there is a query oracle that answers queries of the form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Nir Ailon , Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal

Correlation Clustering is a powerful graph partitioning model that aims to cluster items based on the notion of similarity between items. An instance of the Correlation Clustering problem consists of a graph $G$ (not necessarily complete)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Timothy Zhou

Clustering is a fundamental task in data science that aims to group data based on their similarities. However, defining similarity is often ambiguous, making it challenging to determine the most appropriate objective function for a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Myeonghwan Seong , Daniel K. Park