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High-order clustering aims to classify objects in multiway datasets that are prevalent in various fields such as bioinformatics, recommendation systems, and social network analysis. Such data are often sparse and high-dimensional, posing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Ian Välimaa , Lasse Leskelä

Graph embedding techniques are a staple of modern graph learning research. When using embeddings for downstream tasks such as classification, information about their stability and robustness, i.e., their susceptibility to sources of noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Celia Hacker , Bastian Rieck

Clustering of data sets is a standard problem in many areas of science and engineering. The method of spectral clustering is based on embedding the data set using a kernel function, and using the top eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Geoffrey Schiebinger , Martin J. Wainwright , Bin Yu

We propose a new iterative unfolding method for experimental data, making use of a regularization function. The use of this function allows one to build an improved normalization procedure for Monte Carlo spectra, unbiased by the presence…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-07-23 Bogdan Malaescu

Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (SNE) methods minimize the divergence between the similarity matrix of a high-dimensional data set and its counterpart from a low-dimensional embedding, leading to widely applied tools for data visualization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yao Lu , Jukka Corander , Zhirong Yang

A popular graph clustering method is to consider the embedding of an input graph into R^k induced by the first k eigenvectors of its Laplacian, and to partition the graph via geometric manipulations on the resulting metric space. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Tamal K. Dey , Pan Peng , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

This paper studies the subspace clustering problem. Given some data points approximately drawn from a union of subspaces, the goal is to group these data points into their underlying subspaces. Many subspace clustering methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Canyi Lu , Jiashi Feng , Zhouchen Lin , Tao Mei , Shuicheng Yan

Spectral clustering is a leading clustering method. Two of its major shortcomings are the disjoint optimization process and the limited representation capacity. To address these issues, we propose a deep spectral clustering model (named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Wengang Guo , Wei Ye , Chunchun Chen , Xin Sun , Christian Böhm , Claudia Plant , Susanto Rahardja

An important form of prior information in clustering comes in form of cannot-link and must-link constraints. We present a generalization of the popular spectral clustering technique which integrates such constraints. Motivated by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-26 Syama Sundar Rangapuram , Matthias Hein

Finding coarse representations of large graphs is an important computational problem in the fields of scientific computing, large scale graph partitioning, and the reduction of geometric meshes. Of particular interest in all of these fields…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Christopher Brissette , Andy Huang , George Slota

This paper establishes the consistency of spectral approaches to data clustering. We consider clustering of point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. A graph representing the point cloud is obtained by assigning weights to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Nicolás García Trillos , Dejan Slepčev

In deep neural nets, lower level embedding layers account for a large portion of the total number of parameters. Tikhonov regularization, graph-based regularization, and hard parameter sharing are approaches that introduce explicit biases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Liwei Wu , Shuqing Li , Cho-Jui Hsieh , James Sharpnack

We present the SCR framework for enhancing the training of graph neural networks (GNNs) with consistency regularization. Regularization is a set of strategies used in Machine Learning to reduce overfitting and improve the generalization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Chenhui Zhang , Yufei He , Yukuo Cen , Zhenyu Hou , Wenzheng Feng , Yuxiao Dong , Xu Cheng , Hongyun Cai , Feng He , Jie Tang

Deep neural networks have enormous representational power which leads them to overfit on most datasets. Thus, regularizing them is important in order to reduce overfitting and enhance their generalization capabilities. Recently, channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Sudhakar Kumawat , Gagan Kanojia , Shanmuganathan Raman

Dynamic graph clustering aims to detect and track time-varying clusters in dynamic graphs, revealing the evolutionary mechanisms of complex real-world dynamic systems. Matrix factorization-based methods are promising approaches for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Dongyuan Li , Satoshi Kosugi , Ying Zhang , Manabu Okumura , Feng Xia , Renhe Jiang

Node embeddings map graph vertices into low-dimensional Euclidean spaces while preserving structural information. They are central to tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and signal reconstruction. A key goal is to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Valentin de Bassompierre , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Laurent Jacques

Spectral methods have emerged as a simple yet surprisingly effective approach for extracting information from massive, noisy and incomplete data. In a nutshell, spectral methods refer to a collection of algorithms built upon the eigenvalues…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-26 Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi , Jianqing Fan , Cong Ma

In this paper, we consider the soft geometric block model (SGBM) with a fixed number $k \geq 2$ of homogeneous communities in the dense regime, and we introduce a spectral clustering algorithm for community recovery on graphs generated by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Luiz Emilio Allem , Konstantin Avrachenkov , Carlos Hoppen , Hariprasad Manjunath , Lucas Siviero Sibemberg

We present a simple spectral approach to the well-studied constrained clustering problem. It captures constrained clustering as a generalized eigenvalue problem with graph Laplacians. The algorithm works in nearly-linear time and provides…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Mihai Cucuringu , Ioannis Koutis , Sanjay Chawla , Gary Miller , Richard Peng

Clustering is the problem of separating a set of objects into groups (called clusters) so that objects within the same cluster are more similar to each other than to those in different clusters. Spectral clustering is a now well-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-11-16 B. Cung , T. Jin , J. Ramirez , A. Thompson , C. Boutsidis , D. Needell