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We analyze the performance of spectral clustering for community extraction in stochastic block models. We show that, under mild conditions, spectral clustering applied to the adjacency matrix of the network can consistently recover hidden…

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Spectral clustering is widely used in practice due to its flexibility, computational efficiency, and well-understood theoretical performance guarantees. Recently, spectral clustering has been studied to find balanced clusters under…

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We study the problem of applying spectral clustering to cluster multi-scale data, which is data whose clusters are of various sizes and densities. Traditional spectral clustering techniques discover clusters by processing a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xiang Li , Ben Kao , Caihua Shan , Dawei Yin , Martin Ester

We consider stochastic settings for clustering, and develop provably-good approximation algorithms for a number of these notions. These algorithms yield better approximation ratios compared to the usual deterministic clustering setting.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Shi Li , Thomas Pensyl , Aravind Srinivasan , Khoa Trinh

Among community detection methods, spectral clustering enjoys two desirable properties: computational efficiency and theoretical guarantees of consistency. Most studies of spectral clustering consider only the edges of a network as input to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-18 Jonathan Hehir , Xiaoyue Niu , Aleksandra Slavkovic

The recently emerged spectral clustering surpasses conventional clustering methods by detecting clusters of any shape without the convexity assumption. Unfortunately, with a computational complexity of $O(n^3)$, it was infeasible for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mashaan Alshammari , Masahiro Takatsuka

Spectral clustering is a popular and versatile clustering method based on a relaxation of the normalised graph cut objective. Despite its popularity, however, there is no single agreed upon method for tuning the important scaling parameter,…

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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…

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Spectral algorithms are classic approaches to clustering and community detection in networks. However, for sparse networks the standard versions of these algorithms are suboptimal, in some cases completely failing to detect communities even…

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In the context of clustering, we assume a generative model where each cluster is the result of sampling points in the neighborhood of an embedded smooth surface; the sample may be contaminated with outliers, which are modeled as points…

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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…

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Pedestrian detection benefits from deep learning technology and gains rapid development in recent years. Most of detectors follow general object detection frame, i.e. default boxes and two-stage process. Recently, anchor-free and one-stage…

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Mixture model-based frameworks are very popular for statistical inference in clustering. While convenient for producing probabilistic estimates of cluster assignments and uncertainty, they are prone to misspecification, which can lead to…

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Spectral clustering is one of the most popular methods for community detection in graphs. A key step in spectral clustering algorithms is the eigen decomposition of the $n{\times}n$ graph Laplacian matrix to extract its $k$ leading…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-10 Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Spectral clustering is a popular method for community detection in network graphs: starting from a matrix representation of the graph, the nodes are clustered on a low dimensional projection obtained from a truncated spectral decomposition…

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Deep clustering methods improve the performance of clustering tasks by jointly optimizing deep representation learning and clustering. While numerous deep clustering algorithms have been proposed, most of them rely on artificially…

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Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) is considered as an effective approach for realizing continual learning thanks to its ability to handle the plasticity-stability dilemma. In general, however, the clustering performance of ART-based…

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Deep multi-view clustering incorporating graph learning has presented tremendous potential. Most methods encounter costly square time consumption w.r.t. data size. Theoretically, anchor-based graph learning can alleviate this limitation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bocheng Wang , Chusheng Zeng , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

We consider the problem of clustering a set of high-dimensional data points into sets of low-dimensional linear subspaces. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are unknown. We propose a simple and low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

Semi-supervised clustering seeks to augment traditional clustering methods by incorporating side information provided via human expertise in order to increase the semantic meaningfulness of the resulting clusters. However, most current…

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