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We present a principled spectral approach to the well-studied constrained clustering problem. It reduces clustering to a generalized eigenvalue problem on Laplacians. The method works in nearly-linear time and provides concrete guarantees…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Mihai Cucuringu , Ioannis Koutis , Sanjay Chawla

We consider spectral clustering algorithms for community detection under a general bipartite stochastic block model (SBM). A modern spectral clustering algorithm consists of three steps: (1) regularization of an appropriate adjacency or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhixin Zhou , Arash A. Amini

Spectral clustering methodologies, when extended to accommodate signed graphs, have encountered notable limitations in effectively encapsulating inherent grouping relationships. Recent findings underscore a substantial deterioration in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Muhieddine Shebaro , Lucas Rusnak , Martin Burtscher , Jelena Tešić

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

Node embeddings are a powerful tool in the analysis of networks; yet, their full potential for the important task of node clustering has not been fully exploited. In particular, most state-of-the-art methods generating node embeddings of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yixuan He , Gesine Reinert , Songchao Wang , Mihai Cucuringu

The problem of representing nodes in a signed network as low-dimensional vectors, known as signed network embedding (SNE), has garnered considerable attention in recent years. While several SNE methods based on graph convolutional networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Min-Jeong Kim , Yeon-Chang Lee , David Y. Kang , Sang-Wook Kim

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

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

The paper introduces a Signed Generalized Random Dot Product Graph (SGRDPG) model, which is a variant of the Generalized Random Dot Product Graph (GRDPG), where, in addition, edges can be positive or negative. The setting is extended to a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Marianna Pensky

While orthogonalization exists in current dimensionality reduction methods in spectral clustering on undirected graphs, it does not scale in parallel computing environments. We propose four orthogonalization-free methods for spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Qiyuan Pang , Haizhao Yang

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

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-07 Shubham Gupta , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Spectral Clustering (SC) is one of the most widely used methods for data clustering. It first finds a low-dimensonal embedding $U$ of data by computing the eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian matrix, and then performs k-means on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Canyi Lu , Shuicheng Yan , Zhouchen Lin

We study random graphs with possibly different edge probabilities in the challenging sparse regime of bounded expected degrees. Unlike in the dense case, neither the graph adjacency matrix nor its Laplacian concentrate around their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina , Roman Vershynin

Spectral embedding is a popular technique for the representation of graph data. Several regularization techniques have been proposed to improve the quality of the embedding with respect to downstream tasks like clustering. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Nathan de Lara , Thomas Bonald

Spectral clustering is a technique that clusters elements using the top few eigenvectors of their (possibly normalized) similarity matrix. The quality of spectral clustering is closely tied to the convergence properties of these principal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Purnamrita Sarkar , Peter J. Bickel

This paper aims at addressing distributed averaging problems for signed networks in the presence of general directed topologies that are represented by signed digraphs. A new class of improved Laplacian potential functions is proposed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Mingjun Du , Deyuan Meng , Zheng-Guang Wu

We introduce a principled method for the signed clustering problem, where the goal is to partition a graph whose edge weights take both positive and negative values, such that edges within the same cluster are mostly positive, while edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Mihai Cucuringu , Andrea Pizzoferrato , Yves van Gennip

Cluster structure detection is a fundamental task for the analysis of graphs, in order to understand and to visualize their functional characteristics. Among the different cluster structure detection methods, spectral clustering is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-09 Camille Champion , Blazère Mélanie , Burcelin Rémy , Loubes Jean-Michel , Risser Laurent

Signed networks are graphs whose edges are labelled with either a positive or a negative sign, and can be used to capture nuances in interactions that are missed by their unsigned counterparts. The concept of balance in signed graph theory…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Bruno Ordozgoiti , Antonis Matakos , Aristides Gionis