English
Related papers

Related papers: A Distributed Algorithm for Spectral Sparsificatio…

200 papers

There has been a surge of interest in spectral hypergraph sparsification, a natural generalization of spectral sparsification for graphs. In this paper, we present a simple fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining spectral hypergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Ali Momeni

Spectral clustering is a leading and popular technique in unsupervised data analysis. Two of its major limitations are scalability and generalization of the spectral embedding (i.e., out-of-sample-extension). In this paper we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-06 Uri Shaham , Kelly Stanton , Henry Li , Boaz Nadler , Ronen Basri , Yuval Kluger

Network sparsification methods play an important role in modern network analysis when fast estimation of computationally expensive properties (such as the diameter, centrality indices, and paths) is required. We propose a method of network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Emmanuel John , Ilya Safro

A sparsifier of a graph $G$ (Bencz\'ur and Karger; Spielman and Teng) is a sparse weighted subgraph $\tilde G$ that approximately retains the cut structure of $G$. For general graphs, non-trivial sparsification is possible only by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Nikhil Bansal , Ola Svensson , Luca Trevisan

Graph compression or sparsification is a basic information-theoretic and computational question. A major open problem in this research area is whether $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate cut-preserving vertex sparsifiers with size close to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Parinya Chalermsook , Syamantak Das , Bundit Laekhanukit , Yunbum Kook , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Mark Sellke , Daniel Vaz

Graph Spectral Sparsification (GSS) identifies an ultra-sparse subgraph, or sparsifier, whose Laplacian matrix closely approximates the spectral properties of the original graph, enabling substantial reductions in computational complexity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Tiancheng Zhao , Zekun Yin , Huihai An , Xiaoyu Yang , Zhou Jin , Jiasi Shen , Helen Xu

In this paper we study variants of the widely used spectral clustering that partitions a graph into k clusters by (1) embedding the vertices of a graph into a low-dimensional space using the bottom eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Richard Peng , He Sun , Luca Zanetti

We revisit the theoretical performances of Spectral Clustering, a classical algorithm for graph partitioning that relies on the eigenvectors of a matrix representation of the graph. Informally, we show that Spectral Clustering works well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 George Tyler , Luca Zanetti

Spectral clustering (SC) is a popular clustering technique to find strongly connected communities on a graph. SC can be used in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to implement pooling operations that aggregate nodes belonging to the same cluster.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Daniele Grattarola , Cesare Alippi

Spectral clustering is a powerful method for finding structure in a dataset through the eigenvectors of a similarity matrix. It often outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as $k$-means when the structure of the individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Paola Favati , Grazia Lotti , Ornella Menchi , Francesco Romani

We introduce a new spectral method for image segmentation that incorporates long range relationships for global appearance modeling. The approach combines two different graphs, one is a sparse graph that captures spatial relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Jeova F. S. Rocha Neto , Pedro F. Felzenszwalb

This paper proposes a scalable algorithmic framework for spectral reduction of large undirected graphs. The proposed method allows computing much smaller graphs while preserving the key spectral (structural) properties of the original…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Zhiqiang Zhao , Yongyu Wang , Zhuo Feng

We provide the first online algorithm for spectral hypergraph sparsification. In the online setting, hyperedges with positive weights are arriving in a stream, and upon the arrival of each hyperedge, we must irrevocably decide whether or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Tasuku Soma , Kam Chuen Tung , Yuichi Yoshida

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

Generative graph models struggle to scale due to the need to predict the existence or type of edges between all node pairs. To address the resulting quadratic complexity, existing scalable models often impose restrictive assumptions such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yiming Qin , Clement Vignac , Pascal Frossard

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

Correlation clustering is a widely-used approach for clustering large data sets based only on pairwise similarity information. In recent years, there has been a steady stream of better and better classical algorithms for approximating this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron Putterman

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

Spectral analysis connects graph structure to the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of associated matrices. Much of spectral graph theory descends directly from spectral geometry, the study of differentiable manifolds through the spectra of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Kun Dong , Austin R. Benson , David Bindel

Spectral clustering is a technique that clusters elements using the top few eigenvectors of their (possibly normalized) similarity matrix. The quality of spectral clustering is closely tied to the convergence properties of these principal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Purnamrita Sarkar , Peter J. Bickel