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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

Patchwork learning arises as a new and challenging data collection paradigm where both samples and features are observed in fragmented subsets. Due to technological limits, measurement expense, or multimodal data integration, such patchwork…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-21 Lili Zheng , Andersen Chang , Genevera I. Allen

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

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nassir Mohammad

Clustering data objects into homogeneous groups is one of the most important tasks in data mining. Spectral clustering is arguably one of the most important algorithms for clustering, as it is appealing for its theoretical soundness and is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Dylan Soemitro , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Clustering in image analysis is a central technique that allows to classify elements of an image. We describe a simple clustering technique that uses the method of similarity matrices. We expand upon recent results in spectral analysis for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Denis Gaidashev , Ralf Pihlström , Martin Ryner

Spectral Method is a commonly used scheme to cluster data points lying close to Union of Subspaces by first constructing a Random Geometry Graph, called Subspace Clustering. This paper establishes a theory to analyze this method. Based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

Spectral clustering is known as a powerful technique in unsupervised data analysis. The vast majority of approaches to spectral clustering are driven by a single modality, leaving the rich information in multi-modal representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bo Peng , Yuanwei Hu , Bo Liu , Ling Chen , Jie Lu , Zhen Fang

Graph clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that partitions the nodes in a graph into different groups. Despite achieving significant progress in exploiting both attributed and structured data information, graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyang Hou , Zhihua Tian , Yan he , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Qingbiao Wu , Kui Ren

Spectral Clustering is a popular technique to split data points into groups, especially for complex datasets. The algorithms in the Spectral Clustering family typically consist of multiple separate stages (such as similarity matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Yifei Wang , Rui Liu , Yong Chen , Hui Zhangs , Zhiwen Ye

Clustering is an unsupervised technique of Data Mining. It means grouping similar objects together and separating the dissimilar ones. Each object in the data set is assigned a class label in the clustering process using a distance measure.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-10-13 Parul Agarwal , M. Afshar Alam , Ranjit Biswas

Spectral clustering is one of the most effective clustering approaches that capture hidden cluster structures in the data. However, it does not scale well to large-scale problems due to its quadratic complexity in constructing similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Lingfei Wu , Pin-Yu Chen , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Fangli Xu , Yinglong Xia , Charu Aggarwal

Graph spectral techniques for measuring graph similarity, or for learning the cluster number, require kernel smoothing. The choice of kernel function and bandwidth are typically chosen in an ad-hoc manner and heavily affect the resulting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-20 Diego Granziol , Robin Ru , Stefan Zohren , Xiaowen Dong , Michael Osborne , Stephen Roberts

The performance of spectral clustering heavily relies on the quality of affinity matrix. A variety of affinity-matrix-construction (AMC) methods have been proposed but they have hyperparameters to determine beforehand, which requires strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jicong Fan , Yiheng Tu , Zhao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Haijun Zhang

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning with broad real-world applications. While spectral clustering methods for undirected graphs are well-established and guided by a minimum cut optimization consensus, their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Ning Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Mihai Cucuringu

Spectral clustering is a popular unsupervised learning technique which is able to partition unlabelled data into disjoint clusters of distinct shapes. However, the data under consideration are often experimental data, implying that the data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-26 Jürgen Dölz , Jolanda Weygandt

Finding a good clustering of vertices in a network, where vertices in the same cluster are more tightly connected than those in different clusters, is a useful, important, and well-studied task. Many clustering algorithms scale well,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Thomas DuBois , Jennifer Golbeck , Aravind Srinivasan

In spectral clustering and spectral image segmentation, the data is partioned starting from a given matrix of pairwise similarities S. the matrix S is constructed by hand, or learned on a separate training set. In this paper we show how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Susan Shortreed , Marina Meila

Clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis, and spectral clustering has been recognized as a promising approach to it. Given a graph describing the relationship between data, spectral clustering explores the underlying cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Tomohiko Mizutani

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou