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In the Correlation Clustering problem we are given $n$ nodes, and a preference for each pair of nodes indicating whether we prefer the two endpoints to be in the same cluster or not. The output is a clustering inducing the minimum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Nick Fischer , Evangelos Kipouridis , Jonas Klausen , Mikkel Thorup

A novel and intuitive nearest neighbours based clustering algorithm is introduced, in which a cluster is defined in terms of an equilibrium condition which balances its size and cohesiveness. The formulation of the equilibrium condition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 David P. Hofmeyr

A hedge graph is a graph whose edge set has been partitioned into groups called hedges. Here we consider a generalization of the well-known \textsc{Cluster Deletion} problem, named \textsc{Hedge Cluster Deletion}. The task is to compute the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Charis Papadopoulos , Georgios Velissaris

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem that has been extensively studied both in theory and practice. The problem has been defined in several ways in literature and most of them have been proven to be NP-Hard. Due to their high practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Sumit Singh

The study of algorithmic fairness received growing attention recently. This stems from the awareness that bias in the input data for machine learning systems may result in discriminatory outputs. For clustering tasks, one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Katrin Casel , Tobias Friedrich , Martin Schirneck , Simon Wietheger

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

In many fundamental combinatorial optimization problems, a feasible solution induces some real cost vectors as an intermediate result, and the optimization objective is a certain function of the vectors. For example, in the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Shichuan Deng

In the Colored Clustering problem, one is asked to cluster edge-colored (hyper-)graphs whose colors represent interaction types. More specifically, the goal is to select as many edges as possible without choosing two edges that share an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Leon Kellerhals , Tomohiro Koana , Pascal Kunz , Rolf Niedermeier

In the classic Correlation Clustering problem introduced by Bansal, Blum, and Chawla (FOCS 2002), the input is a complete graph where edges are labeled either $+$ or $-$, and the goal is to find a partition of the vertices that minimizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Shi Li , Alantha Newman , Lukas Vogl

Attributed graph clustering is one of the most fundamental tasks among graph learning field, the goal of which is to group nodes with similar representations into the same cluster without human annotations. Recent studies based on graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Tong Wang , Guanyu Yang , Qijia He , Zhenquan Zhang , Junhua Wu

Online stores often utilize product relationships such as bundles and substitutes to improve their catalog quality and guide customers through myriad choices. Entity resolution using pairwise product matching models offers a means of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Robert A. Barton , Tal Neiman , Changhe Yuan

Attribute-missing graph clustering has emerged as a significant unsupervised task, where only attribute vectors of partial nodes are available and the graph structure is intact. The related models generally follow the two-step paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mulin Chen , Bocheng Wang , Jiaxin Zhong , Zongcheng Miao , Xuelong Li

Spectral clustering is one of the most prominent clustering approaches. The distance-based similarity is the most widely used method for spectral clustering. However, people have already noticed that this is not suitable for multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hengrui Wang , Yubo Zhang , Mingzhi Chen , Tong Yang

We present new results for LambdaCC and MotifCC, two recently introduced variants of the well-studied correlation clustering problem. Both variants are motivated by applications to network analysis and community detection, and have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-26 David F. Gleich , Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth

Cluster Editing, also known as Correlation Clustering, is a well-studied graph modification problem. In this problem, one is given a graph and the task is to perform up to $k$ edge additions or deletions to transform it into a cluster…

This paper introduces the equiwide clustering problem, where valid partitions must satisfy intra-cluster dissimilarity constraints. Unlike most existing clustering algorithms, equiwide clustering relies neither on density nor on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jennie Andersen , Brice Chardin , Mohamed Tribak

Clique clustering is the problem of partitioning the vertices of a graph into disjoint clusters, where each cluster forms a clique in the graph, while optimizing some objective function. In online clustering, the input graph is given one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Marek Chrobak , Christoph Durr , Aleksander Fabijan , Bengt Nilsson

Graph partition is a key component to achieve workload balance and reduce job completion time in parallel graph processing systems. Among the various partition strategies, edge partition has demonstrated more promising performance in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Zhenyu Guo , Mingyu Xiao , Yi Zhou , Dongxiang Zhang , Kian-Lee Tan

We consider the problem of clustering misaligned curves. According to our similarity measure, two curves are considered similar if they have the same shape after being aligned, and the warping function does not differ from the identity…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-01-03 Yu-Hsiang Cheng , Tzee-Ming Huang , Su-Fen Yang

Clustering is a widely used unsupervised learning method for finding structure in the data. However, the resulting clusters are typically presented without any guarantees on their robustness; slightly changing the used data sample or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-02 Andreas Henelius , Kai Puolamäki , Henrik Boström , Panagiotis Papapetrou