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Given the widespread popularity of spectral clustering (SC) for partitioning graph data, we study a version of constrained SC in which we try to incorporate the fairness notion proposed by Chierichetti et al. (2017). According to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Matthäus Kleindessner , Samira Samadi , Pranjal Awasthi , Jamie Morgenstern

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

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular algorithms to group high dimensional data. It is easy to implement and computationally efficient. Despite its popularity and successful applications, its theoretical properties have not been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Matthias Löffler , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

Spectral clustering and cloud computing is emerging branch of computer science or related discipline. It overcome the shortcomings of some traditional clustering algorithm and guarantee the convergence to the optimal solution, thus have to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Yajun Cui , Yang Zhao , Kafei Xiao , Chenglong Zhang , Lei Wang

Clustering is an effective technique in data mining to generate groups that are the matter of interest. Among various clustering approaches, the family of k-means algorithms and min-cut algorithms gain most popularity due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang

Clustering is a fundamental problem in data analysis. In differentially private clustering, the goal is to identify $k$ cluster centers without disclosing information on individual data points. Despite significant research progress, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Edith Cohen , Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour , Uri Stemmer , Eliad Tsfadia

We propose an effective subspace selection scheme as a post-processing step to improve results obtained by sparse subspace clustering (SSC). Our method starts by the computation of stable subspaces using a novel random sampling scheme. Thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Duc-Son Pham , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Svetha Venkatesh

Data clustering with uneven distribution in high level noise is challenging. Currently, HDBSCAN is considered as the SOTA algorithm for this problem. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering algorithm based on what we call graph of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Zhangyang Gao , Haitao Lin , Stan. Z Li

Spectral-based subspace clustering methods have proved successful in many challenging applications such as gene sequencing, image recognition, and motion segmentation. In this work, we first propose a novel spectral-based subspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-09 Hankui Peng , Nicos G. Pavlidis

The applicability of agglomerative clustering, for inferring both hierarchical and flat clustering, is limited by its scalability. Existing scalable hierarchical clustering methods sacrifice quality for speed and often lead to over-merging…

Clustering large datasets is a fundamental problem with a number of applications in machine learning. Data is often collected on different sites and clustering needs to be performed in a distributed manner with low communication. We would…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jiecao Chen , He Sun , David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

In data stream clustering, systematic theory of stream clustering algorithms remains relatively scarce. Recently, density-based methods have gained attention. However, existing algorithms struggle to simultaneously handle arbitrarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Qifen Zeng , Haomin Bao , Yuanzhuo Hu , Zirui Zhang , Yuheng Zheng , Luosheng Wen

Clustering is an unsupervised technique of Data Mining. It means grouping similar objects together and separating the dissimilar ones. Each object in the data set is assigned a class label in the clustering process using a distance measure.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-10-13 Parul Agarwal , M. Afshar Alam , Ranjit Biswas

Clustering is one of the major tasks in data mining. In the last few years, Clustering of spatial data has received a lot of research attention. Spatial databases are components of many advanced information systems like geographic…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Mohamed A. El-Zawawy

Spectral clustering has become one of the most widely used clustering techniques when the structure of the individual clusters is non-convex or highly anisotropic. Yet, despite its immense popularity, there exists fairly little theory about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-16 Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

Consensus clustering seeks to combine multiple clusterings of the same dataset, potentially derived by considering various non-sensitive attributes by different agents in a multi-agent environment, into a single partitioning that best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Diptarka Chakraborty , Kushagra Chatterjee , Debarati Das , Tien-Long Nguyen

We develop a new density-based clustering algorithm named CRAD which is based on a new neighbor searching function with a robust data depth as the dissimilarity measure. Our experiments prove that the new CRAD is highly competitive at…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-09 Xin Huang , Yulia R. Gel

Subspace clustering is the problem of clustering data points into a union of low-dimensional linear/affine subspaces. It is the mathematical abstraction of many important problems in computer vision, image processing and machine learning. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-12 Yining Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Aarti Singh

This paper uses the relationship between graph conductance and spectral clustering to study (i) the failures of spectral clustering and (ii) the benefits of regularization. The explanation is simple. Sparse and stochastic graphs create a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Yilin Zhang , Karl Rohe

We propose a simple and efficient clustering method for high-dimensional data with a large number of clusters. Our algorithm achieves high-performance by evaluating distances of datapoints with a subset of the cluster centres. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Georgios Exarchakis , Omar Oubari , Gregor Lenz