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In the context of clustering, we consider a generative model in a Euclidean ambient space with clusters of different shapes, dimensions, sizes and densities. In an asymptotic setting where the number of points becomes large, we obtain…

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The present paper is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. While the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs, we present an effective generalization, which we call higher-order spectral clustering. It…

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We build upon recent advances in graph signal processing to propose a faster spectral clustering algorithm. Indeed, classical spectral clustering is based on the computation of the first k eigenvectors of the similarity matrix' Laplacian,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Nicolas Tremblay , Gilles Puy , Pierre Borgnat , Remi Gribonval , Pierre Vandergheynst

Spectral clustering is popular among practitioners and theoreticians alike. While performance guarantees for spectral clustering are well understood, recent studies have focused on enforcing ``fairness'' in clusters, requiring them to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shubham Gupta , Ambedkar Dukkipati

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

The community structure of complex networks reveals both their organization and hidden relationships among their constituents. Most community detection methods currently available are not deterministic, and their results typically depend on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-29 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

We consider the sampling of the coupled cluster expansion within stochastic coupled cluster theory. Observing the limitations of previous approaches due to the inherently non-linear behaviour of a coupled cluster wavefunction representation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Charles J. C. Scott , Alex J. W. Thom

The mixture model is undoubtedly one of the greatest contributions to clustering. For continuous data, Gaussian models are often used and the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is particularly suitable for estimating parameters from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-25 Zineddine Tighidet , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif

Ensemble clustering is a fundamental problem in the machine learning field, combining multiple base clusterings into a better clustering result. However, most of the existing methods are unsuitable for large-scale ensemble clustering tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hongmin Li , Xiucai Ye , Akira Imakura , Tetsuya Sakurai

Multi-swarm particle optimisation algorithms are gaining popularity due to their ability to locate multiple optimum points concurrently. In this family of algorithms, clustering-based multi-swarm algorithms are among the most effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yves Matanga , Yanxia Sun , Zenghui Wang

Spectral clustering is a popular and effective algorithm designed to find $k$ clusters in a graph $G$. In the classical spectral clustering algorithm, the vertices of $G$ are embedded into $\mathbb{R}^k$ using $k$ eigenvectors of the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peter Macgregor

We present a new algorithm for spectral clustering based on a column-pivoted QR factorization that may be directly used for cluster assignment or to provide an initial guess for k-means. Our algorithm is simple to implement, direct, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Anil Damle , Victor Minden , Lexing Ying

Clustering algorithms are fundamental tools across many fields, with density-based methods offering particular advantages in identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters and handling noise. However, their effectiveness is often limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Meysam Shirdel Bilehsavar , Razieh Ghaedi , Samira Seyed Taheri , Xinqi Fan , Christian O'Reilly

In this paper we prove the strong consistency of several methods based on the spectral clustering techniques that are widely used to study the community detection problem in stochastic block models (SBMs). We show that under some weak…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-16 Liangjun Su , Wuyi Wang , Yichong Zhang

We introduce a principled and theoretically sound spectral method for $k$-way clustering in signed graphs, where the affinity measure between nodes takes either positive or negative values. Our approach is motivated by social balance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Mihai Cucuringu , Peter Davies , Aldo Glielmo , Hemant Tyagi

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

In this paper, we present a deep extension of Sparse Subspace Clustering, termed Deep Sparse Subspace Clustering (DSSC). Regularized by the unit sphere distribution assumption for the learned deep features, DSSC can infer a new data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Xi Peng , Jiashi Feng , Shijie Xiao , Jiwen Lu , Zhang Yi , Shuicheng Yan

Many state-of-the-art subspace clustering methods follow a two-step process by first constructing an affinity matrix between data points and then applying spectral clustering to this affinity. Most of the research into these methods focuses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Derek Lim , René Vidal , Benjamin D. Haeffele

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

Cluster analysis faces two problems in high dimensions: first, the `curse of dimensionality' that can lead to overfitting and poor generalization performance; and second, the sheer time taken for conventional algorithms to process large…

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