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While clustering is ubiquitously used across science and industry, uncertainty in cluster assignments is rarely quantified with rigorous guarantees. We propose a novel conformal inference framework for clustering that returns confidence…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-13 YoonHaeng Hur , Anirban Nath , Genevera Allen

Clustering aims to group unlabeled objects based on similarity inherent among them into clusters. It is important for many tasks such as anomaly detection, database sharding, record linkage, and others. Some clustering methods are taken as…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Binbin Gu , Saeed Kargar , Faisal Nawab

In this work a robust clustering algorithm for stationary time series is proposed. The algorithm is based on the use of estimated spectral densities, which are considered as functional data, as the basic characteristic of stationary time…

Clustering high-dimensional datasets is hard because interpoint distances become less informative in high-dimensional spaces. We present a clustering algorithm that performs nonlinear dimensionality reduction and clustering jointly. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

Clustering is a long-standing research problem and a fundamental tool in AI and data analysis. The traditional k-center problem, a fundamental theoretical challenge in clustering, has a best possible approximation ratio of 2, and any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chaoqi Jia , Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao , Zhigang Lu , Chao Chen , Jason Xue

Social network alignment aims at aligning person identities across social networks. Embedding based models have been shown effective for the alignment where the structural proximity preserving objective is typically adopted for the model…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zihan Yan , Li Liu , Xin Li , William K. Cheung , Youmin Zhang , Qun Liu , Guoyin Wang

We propose two spectral algorithms for partitioning nodes in directed graphs respectively with a cyclic and an acyclic pattern of connection between groups of nodes. Our methods are based on the computation of extremal eigenvalues of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 H. Van Lierde , T. W. S. Chow , J. -C. Delvenne

Broad searches for continuous gravitational wave signals rely on hierarchies of follow-up stages for candidates above a given significance threshold. An important step to simplify these follow-ups and reduce the computational cost is to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Maria Alessandra Papa

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

Hierarchical Clustering is a popular unsupervised machine learning method with decades of history and numerous applications. We initiate the study of differentially private approximation algorithms for hierarchical clustering under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jacob Imola , Alessandro Epasto , Mohammad Mahdian , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Vahab Mirrokni

Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Yudong Chen , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

We consider the problem of spectral clustering under group fairness constraints, where samples from each sensitive group are approximately proportionally represented in each cluster. Traditional fair spectral clustering (FSC) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xiang Zhang , Qiao Wang

This work introduces a moving anchor acceleration technique to extragradient algorithms for smooth structured minimax problems. The moving anchor is introduced as a generalization of the original algorithmic anchoring framework, i.e. the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 James K. Alcala , Yat Tin Chow , Mahesh Sunkula

Spectral clustering is a broad class of clustering procedures in which an intractable combinatorial optimization formulation of clustering is "relaxed" into a tractable eigenvector problem, and in which the relaxed solution is subsequently…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-02-21 Zhihua Zhang , Michael I. Jordan

Graph-based multi-view clustering has become an active topic due to the efficiency in characterizing both the complex structure and relationship between multimedia data. However, existing methods have the following shortcomings: (1) They…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Tianyu Jiang , Quanxue Gao , Xinbo Gao

We propose a method for the unsupervised clustering of hyperspectral images based on spatially regularized spectral clustering with ultrametric path distances. The proposed method efficiently combines data density and geometry to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Shukun Zhang , James M. Murphy

This paper explores the problem of clustering ensemble, which aims to combine multiple base clusterings to produce better performance than that of the individual one. The existing clustering ensemble methods generally construct a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Qingfu Zhang

The area of constrained clustering has been extensively explored by researchers and used by practitioners. Constrained clustering formulations exist for popular algorithms such as k-means, mixture models, and spectral clustering but have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hongjing Zhang , Tianyang Zhan , Sugato Basu , Ian Davidson

We consider the problem of clustering with the longest-leg path distance (LLPD) metric, which is informative for elongated and irregularly shaped clusters. We prove finite-sample guarantees on the performance of clustering with respect to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-07 Anna Little , Mauro Maggioni , James M. Murphy