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Graph learning methods have recently been receiving increasing interest as means to infer structure in datasets. Most of the recent approaches focus on different relationships between a graph and data sample distributions, mostly in…

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We investigate the community detection problem on graphs in the existence of multiple edge types. Our main motivation is that similarity between objects can be defined by many different metrics and aggregation of these metrics into a single…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Matthew Rocklin , Ali Pinar

Clustering is a fundamental task for analyzing unlabeled data based solely on its underlying distribution. Spectral clustering is a clustering method that represents a dataset as a graph and uses the relationships between data points.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Hyeong-Gyu Kim , Siheon Park , June-Koo Kevin Rhee

Spectral clustering methods are widely used for detecting clusters in networks for community detection, while a small change on the graph Laplacian matrix could bring a dramatic improvement. In this paper, we propose a dual regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-10 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

The two-step spectral clustering method, which consists of the Laplacian eigenmap and a rounding step, is a widely used method for graph partitioning. It can be seen as a natural relaxation to the NP-hard minimum ratio cut problem. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-14 March Boedihardjo , Shaofeng Deng , Thomas Strohmer

Spectral Clustering is one of the most traditional methods to solve segmentation problems. Based on Normalized Cuts, it aims at partitioning an image using an objective function defined by a graph. Despite their mathematical attractiveness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Rahul Palnitkar , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Clustering methods are often used in physics education research (PER) to identify subgroups of individuals within a population who share similar response patterns or characteristics. K-means (or k-modes, for categorical data) is one of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Minghui Wang , Meagan Sundstrom , Karen Nylund-Gibson , Marsha Ing

As a model problem for clustering, we consider the densest k-disjoint-clique problem of partitioning a weighted complete graph into k disjoint subgraphs such that the sum of the densities of these subgraphs is maximized. We establish that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Aleksis Pirinen , Brendan Ames

Spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms are sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data. In particular if the data has proximal and unbalanced clusters these algorithms can lead to poor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-22 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama

We consider spectral clustering algorithms for community detection under a general bipartite stochastic block model (SBM). A modern spectral clustering algorithm consists of three steps: (1) regularization of an appropriate adjacency or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhixin Zhou , Arash A. Amini

Multilayer graphs are commonly used for representing different relations between entities and handling heterogeneous data processing tasks. Non-standard multilayer graph clustering methods are needed for assigning clusters to a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-10 Pin-Yu Chen , Alfred O. Hero

We present a new clustering algorithm that is based on searching for natural gaps in the components of the lowest energy eigenvectors of the Laplacian of a graph. In comparing the performance of the proposed method with a set of other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-10 W. R. Casper , Balu Nadiga

Clustering can be defined as the process of assembling objects into a number of groups whose elements are similar to each other in some manner. As a technique that is used in many domains, such as face clustering, plant categorization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mehmet F. Demirel , Enrico Au-Yeung

Modern graph embedding procedures can efficiently process graphs with millions of nodes. In this paper, we propose GEMSEC -- a graph embedding algorithm which learns a clustering of the nodes simultaneously with computing their embedding.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Benedek Rozemberczki , Ryan Davies , Rik Sarkar , Charles Sutton

After generalizing the concept of clusters to incorporate clusters that are linked to other clusters through some relatively narrow bridges, an approach for detecting patches of separation between these clusters is developed based on an…

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We study the scenario of graph-based clustering algorithms such as spectral clustering. Given a set of data points, one first has to construct a graph on the data points and then apply a graph clustering algorithm to find a suitable…

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A computational theory for clustering and a semi-supervised clustering algorithm is presented. Clustering is defined to be the obtainment of groupings of data such that each group contains no anomalies with respect to a chosen grouping…

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How do graph clustering techniques compare with respect to their summarization power? How well can they summarize a million-node graph with a few representative structures? Graph clustering or community detection algorithms can summarize a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Yike Liu , Neil Shah , Danai Koutra

This is a survey of the method of graph cuts and its applications to graph clustering of weighted unsigned and signed graphs. I provide a fairly thorough treatment of the method of normalized graph cuts, a deeply original method due to Shi…

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