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Neural network-based clustering has recently gained popularity, and in particular a constrained clustering formulation has been proposed to perform transfer learning and image category discovery using deep learning. The core idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zhaoyang Lv , Joel Schlosser , Phillip Odom , Zsolt Kira

Consider a random graph model where each possible edge $e$ is present independently with some probability $p_e$. Given these probabilities, we want to build a large/heavy matching in the randomly generated graph. However, the only way we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-01 Nikhil Bansal , Anupam Gupta , Jian Li , Julian Mestre , Viswanath Nagarajan , Atri Rudra

In this paper, we propose and study a semi-random model for the Correlation Clustering problem on arbitrary graphs G. We give two approximation algorithms for Correlation Clustering instances from this model. The first algorithm finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Rounding linear programs using techniques from discrepancy is a recent approach that has been very successful in certain settings. However this method also has some limitations when compared to approaches such as randomized and iterative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Nikhil Bansal , Viswanath Nagarajan

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a weighted graph $G$ with its edges labeled as "similar" or "dissimilar" by a binary classifier. The goal is to produce a clustering that minimizes the weight of "disagreements": the sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jafar Jafarov , Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev

We study graph clustering in the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) in the presence of both large clusters and small, unrecoverable clusters. Previous convex relaxation approaches achieving exact recovery do not allow any small clusters of size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Matthew Zurek , Yudong Chen

Text clustering is a fundamental task in natural language processing, yet traditional clustering algorithms with pre-trained embeddings often struggle in domain-specific contexts without costly fine-tuning. Large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yiming Xu , Yuan Yuan , Vijay Viswanathan , Graham Neubig

In [SIAM J. Optim., 2022], the authors introduced a new linear programming (LP) relaxation for K-means clustering. In this paper, we further investigate both theoretical and computational properties of this relaxation. As evident from our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Antonio De Rosa , Aida Khajavirad , Yakun Wang

We introduce Transductive Local Complexity (TLC) to extend the classical Local Rademacher Complexity (LRC) to the transductive setting, incorporating substantial and novel components. Although LRC has been used to obtain sharp…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-06 Yingzhen Yang

Recently, Hierarchical Clustering (HC) has been considered through the lens of optimization. In particular, two maximization objectives have been defined. Moseley and Wang defined the \emph{Revenue} objective to handle similarity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Danny Vainstein , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Gui Citovsky , Anand Rajagopalan , Mohammad Mahdian , Yossi Azar

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

With the aggressive scaling of VLSI technology, the explosion of layout patterns creates a critical bottleneck for DFM applications like OPC. Pattern clustering is essential to reduce data complexity, yet existing methods struggle with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuo Liu

Clustering is a NP-hard problem. Thus, no optimal algorithm exists, heuristics are applied to cluster the data. Heuristics can be very resource-intensive, if not applied properly. For substantially large data sets computational efficiencies…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Mujahid Sultan

Correlation clustering is a widely used technique in unsupervised machine learning. Motivated by applications where individual privacy is a concern, we initiate the study of differentially private correlation clustering. We propose an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Mark Bun , Marek Eliáš , Janardhan Kulkarni

This study concerns the mean-clustering approach to modelling the evolution of lattice dynamics. Instead of tracking the state of individual lattice sites, this approach describes the time evolution of the concentrations of different…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Avesta Ahmadi , Jamie M. Foster , Bartosz Protas

We introduce a novel criterion in clustering that seeks clusters with limited range of values associated with each cluster's elements. In clustering or classification the objective is to partition a set of objects into subsets, called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Dorit S. Hochbaum

Clustering with capacity constraints is a fundamental problem that attracted significant attention throughout the years. In this paper, we give the first FPT constant-factor approximation algorithm for the problem of clustering points in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , William Lochet , Saket Saurabh

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

We introduce the $(p,q)$-Fair Clustering problem. In this problem, we are given a set of points $P$ and a collection of different weight functions $W$. We would like to find a clustering which minimizes the $\ell_q$-norm of the vector over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Eden Chlamtáč , Yury Makarychev , Ali Vakilian

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