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Cluster deletion is an NP-hard graph clustering objective with applications in computational biology and social network analysis, where the goal is to delete a minimum number of edges to partition a graph into cliques. We first provide a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Vicente Balmaseda , Ying Xu , Yixin Cao , Nate Veldt

Motivated by applications in social network community analysis, we introduce a new clustering paradigm termed motif clustering. Unlike classical clustering, motif clustering aims to minimize the number of clustering errors associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Pan Li , Hoang Dau , Gregory Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

The objective of clustering is to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify geometrical structures which might reside there, without assuming any prior knowledge on the characteristics of the data. The problem can be seen as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Luis-Evaristo Caraballo , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher

Spectral clustering is sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data particularly when proximal and imbalanced clusters are present. We show that Ratio-Cut (RCut) or normalized cut (NCut) objectives are not tailored to imbalanced data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-11 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama

In Constrained Correlation Clustering, the goal is to cluster a complete signed graph in a way that minimizes the number of negative edges inside clusters plus the number of positive edges between clusters, while respecting hard constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nate Veldt

We consider the classic Correlation Clustering problem: Given a complete graph where edges are labelled either $+$ or $-$, the goal is to find a partition of the vertices that minimizes the number of the \pedges across parts plus the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Shi Li , Alantha Newman

In this work, we study the problem of partitioning a set of graphs into different groups such that the graphs in the same group are similar while the graphs in different groups are dissimilar. This problem was rarely studied previously,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinyu Cai , Yi Han , Wenzhong Guo , Jicong Fan

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

We study the online clustering problem where data items arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm maintains a clustering of data items into similarity classes. Upon arrival of v, the relation between v and previously arrived items is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Claire Mathieu , Ocan Sankur , Warren Schudy

Given a complete graph $G = (V, E)$ where each edge is labeled $+$ or $-$, the Correlation Clustering problem asks to partition $V$ into clusters to minimize the number of $+$edges between different clusters plus the number of $-$edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Alantha Newman

Clustering is a fundamental task in both machine learning and data mining. Among various methods, edge-colored clustering (ECC) has emerged as a useful approach for handling categorical data. Given a hypergraph with (hyper)edges labeled by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Changyeol Lee , Yongho Shin , Hyung-Chan An

This work introduces a hybrid quantum-classical method to correlation clustering, a graph-based unsupervised learning task that seeks to partition the nodes in a graph based on pairwise agreement and disagreement. In particular, we adapt…

We study the approximability of an existing framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, which is closely related to chromatic correlation clustering and is motivated by machine learning and data mining applications where the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Nate Veldt

Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti

A recent trend in data mining has explored (hyper)graph clustering algorithms for data with categorical relationship types. Such algorithms have applications in the analysis of social, co-authorship, and protein interaction networks, to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Alex Crane , Brian Lavallee , Blair D. Sullivan , Nate Veldt

In order to study real-world systems, many applied works model them through signed graphs, i.e. graphs whose edges are labeled as either positive or negative. Such a graph is considered as structurally balanced when it can be partitioned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Nejat Arinik , Rosa Figueiredo , Vincent Labatut

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

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

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

A data filtering method for cluster analysis is proposed, based on minimizing a least squares function with a weighted $\ell_0$-norm penalty. To overcome the discontinuity of the objective function, smooth non-convex functions are employed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Andrea Cristofari