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In this paper, we propose an unsupervised face clustering algorithm called "Proximity-Aware Hierarchical Clustering" (PAHC) that exploits the local structure of deep representations. In the proposed method, a similarity measure between deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Wei-An Lin , Jun-Cheng Chen , Rama Chellappa

An agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) framework and algorithm named HOSil based on a new linkage metric optimized by the average silhouette width (ASW) index is proposed. A conscientious investigation of various clustering methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-30 Fatima Batool

Hierarchical Agglomerative Classification (HAC) with Ward's linkage has been widely used since its introduction in Ward (1963). The present article reviews the different extensions of the method to various input data and the constrained…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-25 Nathanaël Randriamihamison , Nathalie Vialaneix , Pierre Neuvial

Finding the dense regions of a graph and relations among them is a fundamental problem in network analysis. Core and truss decompositions reveal dense subgraphs with hierarchical relations. The incremental nature of algorithms for computing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar

Hierarchical clustering is one of the most powerful solutions to the problem of clustering, on the grounds that it performs a multi scale organization of the data. In recent years, research on hierarchical clustering methods has attracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Antonia Korba

Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) is a widely-used clustering method based on repeatedly merging the closest pair of clusters, where inter-cluster distances are determined by a linkage function. Unlike many clustering methods, HAC…

Partial orders and directed acyclic graphs are commonly recurring data structures that arise naturally in numerous domains and applications and are used to represent ordered relations between entities in the domains. Examples are task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Daniel Bakkelund

Cycles are one of the fundamental subgraph patterns and being able to enumerate them in graphs enables important applications in a wide variety of fields, including finance, biology, chemistry, and network science. However, to enable cycle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jovan Blanuša , Kubilay Atasu , Paolo Ienne

Hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) is a popular algorithm for clustering data, but despite its importance, no dynamic algorithms for HAC with good theoretical guarantees exist. In this paper, we study dynamic HAC on edge-weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Tom Tseng , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Hierarchical clustering is a critical task in numerous domains. Many approaches are based on heuristics and the properties of the resulting clusterings are studied post hoc. However, in several applications, there is a natural cost function…

We develop an algorithm that finds the consensus of many different clustering solutions of a graph. We formulate the problem as a median set partitioning problem and propose a greedy optimization technique. Unlike other approaches that find…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Md Taufique Hussain , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Samrat Chatterjee , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato , Ariful Azad

This paper studies the nucleus decomposition problem, which has been shown to be useful in finding dense substructures in graphs. We present a novel parallel algorithm that is efficient both in theory and in practice. Our algorithm achieves…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Modern graph or network datasets often contain rich structure that goes beyond simple pairwise connections between nodes. This calls for complex representations that can capture, for instance, edges of different types as well as so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Nikos Parotsidis , Jakub Tarnawski

When some 'entities' are related by the 'features' they share they are amenable to a bipartite network representation. Plant-pollinator ecological communities, co-authorship of scientific papers, customers and purchases, or answers in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ignacio Tamarit , María Pereda , José A. Cuesta

Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Anna Mpanti , Fariba Ranjbar

As the size $n$ of datasets become massive, many commonly-used clustering algorithms (for example, $k$-means or hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) require prohibitive computational cost and memory. In this paper, we propose a…

SCAN (Structural Clustering Algorithm for Networks) is a well-studied, widely used graph clustering algorithm. For large graphs, however, sequential SCAN variants are prohibitively slow, and parallel SCAN variants do not effectively share…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Tom Tseng , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

This paper presents a parallel adaptive clustering (PAC) algorithm to automatically classify data while simultaneously choosing a suitable number of classes. Clustering is an important tool for data analysis and understanding in a broad set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Benjamin McLaughlin , Sung Ha Kang

This paper introduces a hierarchical clustering algorithm, the Clustroid Hierarchical Nearest Neighbor ($\mathrm{CHN}^2$), designed for datasets with a countably infinite number of points. The method builds clusters across successive levels…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Sayeh Khaniha , François Baccelli