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Chromatic Correlation Clustering (CCC) generalizes Correlation Clustering by assigning multiple categorical relationships (colors) to edges and imposing chromatic constraints on the clusters. Unlike traditional Correlation Clustering, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dahoon Lee , Chenglin Fan , Euiwoong Lee

With rapidly increasing data, clustering algorithms are important tools for data analytics in modern research. They have been successfully applied to a wide range of domains; for instance, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and financial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Ka-Chun Wong

Graph-based clustering methods have demonstrated the effectiveness in various applications. Generally, existing graph-based clustering methods first construct a graph to represent the input data and then partition it to generate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong

We study the clustering problem for mixtures of bounded covariance distributions, under a fine-grained separation assumption. Specifically, given samples from a $k$-component mixture distribution $D = \sum_{i =1}^k w_i P_i$, where each $w_i…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Jasper C. H. Lee , Thanasis Pittas

The paper develops a general framework for constrained clustering which is based on the close connection of geometric clustering and diagrams. Various new structural and algorithmic results are proved (and known results generalized and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Andreas Brieden , Peter Gritzmann , Fabian Klemm

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

Cluster analysis requires many decisions: the clustering method and the implied reference model, the number of clusters and, often, several hyper-parameters and algorithms' tunings. In practice, one produces several partitions, and a final…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-14 Luca Coraggio , Pietro Coretto

Correlation clustering is a central problem in unsupervised learning, with applications spanning community detection, duplicate detection, automated labelling and many more. In the correlation clustering problem one receives as input a set…

Diversity maximization problem is a well-studied problem where the goal is to find $k$ diverse items. Fair diversity maximization aims to select a diverse subset of $k$ items from a large dataset, while requiring that each group of items be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Florian Adriaens , Nikolaj Tatti

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision and pattern recognition. Recently, deep clustering methods (algorithms based on deep learning) have attracted wide attention with their impressive performance. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yanhai Gan , Xinghui Dong , Huiyu Zhou , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

Many clustering schemes are defined by optimizing an objective function defined on the partitions of the underlying set of a finite metric space. In this paper, we construct a framework for studying what happens when we instead impose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-12-01 Gunnar Carlsson , Facundo Memoli

We introduce a new clustering method for the classification of functional data sets by their probabilistic law, that is, a procedure that aims to assign data sets to the same cluster if and only if the data were generated with the same…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-29 Antonio Galves , Fernando Najman , Marcela Svarc , Claudia D. Vargas

We study streaming algorithms for proportionally fair clustering, a notion originally suggested by Chierichetti et. al. (2017), in the sliding window model. We show that although there exist efficient streaming algorithms in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Qiaoyuan Yang , Yubo Zhang , Samson Zhou

The problem of finding groups in data (cluster analysis) has been extensively studied by researchers from the fields of Statistics and Computer Science, among others. However, despite its popularity it is widely recognized that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-10 José E. Chacón

Recently, there has been substantial interest in clustering research that takes a beyond worst-case approach to the analysis of algorithms. The typical idea is to design a clustering algorithm that outputs a near-optimal solution, provided…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Maria-Florina Balcan , Colin White

Despite its popularity, it is widely recognized that the investigation of some theoretical aspects of clustering has been relatively sparse. One of the main reasons for this lack of theoretical results is surely the fact that, whereas for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-11 José E. Chacón

Community-based graph clustering is one of the most popular topics in the analysis of complex social networks. This type of clustering involves grouping vertices that are considered to share more connections, whereas vertices in different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wenshun Teng , Qingna Li

As a kind of basic machine learning method, clustering algorithms group data points into different categories based on their similarity or distribution. We present a clustering algorithm by finding hyper-planes to distinguish the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Luhong Diao , Jinying Gao1 , Manman Deng

Image segmentation as a clustering problem is to identify pixel groups on an image without any preliminary labels available. It remains a challenge in machine vision because of the variations in size and shape of image segments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xin Zhong , Frank Y. Shih , Xiwang Guo

Submodular function optimization has numerous applications in machine learning and data analysis, including data summarization which aims to identify a concise and diverse set of data points from a large dataset. It is important to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan , Twumasi Mensah-Boateng