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Graph clustering is essential in graph analysis for revealing structural patterns and node communities. Despite recent advances in self-supervised contrastive learning that have improved clustering via structural and attribute signals,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Lei Zhang , Fubo Sun , Haipeng Yang , Zhong Guan , Likang Wu

The network Lasso is a recently proposed convex optimization method for machine learning from massive network structured datasets, i.e., big data over networks. It is a variant of the well-known least absolute shrinkage and selection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-06 Alexandru Mara , Alexander Jung

We apply the network Lasso to solve binary classification and clustering problems for network-structured data. To this end, we generalize ordinary logistic regression to non-Euclidean data with an intrinsic network structure. The resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Henrik Ambos , Nguyen Tran , Alexander Jung

Graph learning methods have recently been receiving increasing interest as means to infer structure in datasets. Most of the recent approaches focus on different relationships between a graph and data sample distributions, mostly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Hermina Petric Maretic , Pascal Frossard

We propose a novel model-reduction methodology for large-scale dynamic networks with tightly-connected components. First, the coherent groups are identified by a spectral clustering algorithm on the graph Laplacian matrix that models the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Hancheng Min , Enrique Mallada

We present a graph-theoretical approach to data clustering, which combines the creation of a graph from the data with Markov Stability, a multiscale community detection framework. We show how the multiscale capabilities of the method allow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Zijing Liu , Mauricio Barahona

The well-known graph-based clustering methods, including spectral clustering, symmetric non-negative matrix factorization, and doubly stochastic normalization, can be viewed as relaxations of the kernel $k$-means approach. However, we posit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Wenlong Lyu , Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou

Spectral Clustering is one of the most traditional methods to solve segmentation problems. Based on Normalized Cuts, it aims at partitioning an image using an objective function defined by a graph. Despite their mathematical attractiveness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Rahul Palnitkar , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Infomap clustering finds the community structures that minimize the expected description length of a random walk trajectory; algorithms for infomap clustering run fast in practice for large graphs. In this paper we leverage the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Seok-Hee Hong , Peter Eades , Marnijati Torkel , Ziyang Wang , David Chae , Sungpack Hong , Daniel Langerenken , Hassan Chafi

Spectral clustering methods are known for their ability to represent clusters of diverse shapes, densities etc. However, results of such algorithms, when applied e.g. to text documents, are hard to explain to the user, especially due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Bartłomiej Starosta , Mieczysław A. Kłopotek , Sławomir T. Wierzchoń

Spectral clustering has become one of the most popular algorithms in data clustering and community detection. We study the performance of classical two-step spectral clustering via the graph Laplacian to learn the stochastic block model.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-22 Shaofeng Deng , Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

We propose an efficient linear-time graph-based divisive cluster analysis approach called Reductive Clustering. The approach tries to reveal the hierarchical structural information through reducing the graph into a more concise one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Ching Tarn , Yinan Zhang , Ye Feng

A clustering algorithm partitions a set of data points into smaller sets (clusters) such that each subset is more tightly packed than the whole. Many approaches to clustering translate the vector data into a graph with edges reflecting a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Jesse Johnson

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

Clustering nodes in heterophilous graphs is challenging as traditional methods assume that effective clustering is characterized by high intra-cluster and low inter-cluster connectivity. To address this, we introduce HeNCler-a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Sonny Achten , Zander Op de Beeck , Francesco Tonin , Volkan Cevher , Johan A. K. Suykens

With the recent popularity of graphical clustering methods, there has been an increased focus on the information between samples. We show how learning cluster structure using edge features naturally and simultaneously determines the most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-09 Matt Barnes , Artur Dubrawski

Graph clustering, which aims to divide a graph into several homogeneous groups, is a critical area of study with applications that span various fields such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, and image segmentation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-15 Timothé Watteau , Aubin Bonnefoy , Simon Illouz-Laurent , Joaquim Jusseau , Serge Iovleff

In this paper, we propose a physically inspired graph-theoretical clustering method, which first makes the data points organized into an attractive graph, called In-Tree, via a physically inspired rule, called Nearest Descent (ND). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Teng Qiu , Kaifu Yang , Chaoyi Li , Yongjie Li

We develop new methods based on graph motifs for graph clustering, allowing more efficient detection of communities within networks. We focus on triangles within graphs, but our techniques extend to other clique motifs as well. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Charalampos Tsourakakis , Jakub Pachocki , Michael Mitzenmacher

Laplacian mixture models identify overlapping regions of influence in unlabeled graph and network data in a scalable and computationally efficient way, yielding useful low-dimensional representations. By combining Laplacian eigenspace and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-03 Daniel Korenblum