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It has been shown that dimension reduction methods such as PCA may be inherently prone to unfairness and treat data from different sensitive groups such as race, color, sex, etc., unfairly. In pursuit of fairness-enhancing dimensionality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Farzin Haddadpour , Rana Forsati , Mehrdad Mahdavi

In a random intersection graph $G_{n,m,p}$, each of $n$ vertices selects a random subset of a set of $m$ labels by including each label independently with probability $p$ and edges are drawn between vertices that have at least one label in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Filippos Christodoulou , Sotiris Nikoletseas , Christoforos Raptopoulos , Paul Spirakis

Recent studies have highlighted fairness issues in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), where they produce discriminatory predictions against specific protected groups categorized by sensitive attributes such as race and age. While various efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuchang Zhu , Jintang Li , Yatao Bian , Zibin Zheng , Liang Chen

We study a variant of classical clustering formulations in the context of algorithmic fairness, known as diversity-aware clustering. In this variant we are given a collection of facility subsets, and a solution must contain at least a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Suhas Thejaswi , Ameet Gadekar , Bruno Ordozgoiti , Michal Osadnik

Graph anomaly detection has gained significant attention across various domains, particularly in critical applications like fraud detection in e-commerce platforms and insider threat detection in cybersecurity. Usually, these data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Lecheng Zheng , John R. Birge , Haiyue Wu , Yifang Zhang , Jingrui He

We present an exact algorithm for computing all common subgraphs with the maximum number of vertices across multiple graphs. Our approach is further extended to handle the connected Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS), identifying the largest…

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We consider problems of finding a maximum size/weight $t$-matching without forbidden subgraphs in an undirected graph $G$ with the maximum degree bounded by $t+1$, where $t$ is an integer greater than $2$. Depending on the variant forbidden…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Katarzyna Paluch , Mateusz Wasylkiewicz

The problem of finding the densest subgraph in a given graph has several applications in graph mining, particularly in areas like social network analysis, protein and gene analyses etc. Depending on the application, finding dense subgraphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Naga V. C. Gudapati , Enrico Malaguti , Michele Monaci

The most commonly used method to tackle the graph partitioning problem in practice is the multilevel approach. During a coarsening phase, a multilevel graph partitioning algorithm reduces the graph size by iteratively contracting nodes and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Henning Meyerhenke , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

A $k$-clique is a dense graph, consisting of $k$ fully-connected nodes, that finds numerous applications, such as community detection and network analysis. In this paper, we study a new problem, that finds a maximum set of disjoint…

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Clustering algorithms are widely used in many societal resource allocation applications, such as loan approvals and candidate recruitment, among others, and hence, biased or unfair model outputs can adversely impact individuals that rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Anshuman Chhabra , Peizhao Li , Prasant Mohapatra , Hongfu Liu

Affordable, high-quality whole-genome assemblies have made it possible to construct rich pangenomes that capture haplotype diversity across many species. As these datasets grow, they motivate the development of specialized techniques…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Gorkem Kadir Solun , Ugur Dogrusoz

Dense subgraph discovery methods are routinely used in a variety of applications including the identification of a team of skilled individuals for collaboration from a social network. However, when the network's node set is associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Atsushi Miyauchi , Tianyi Chen , Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

In this paper, we investigate the problem of (k,r)-core which intends to find cohesive subgraphs on social networks considering both user engagement and similarity perspectives. In particular, we adopt the popular concept of k-core to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Fan Zhang , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Understanding and removing bias from the decisions made by machine learning models is essential to avoid discrimination against unprivileged groups. Despite recent progress in algorithmic fairness, there is still no clear answer as to which…

Fair clustering aims to divide data into distinct clusters while preventing sensitive attributes (\textit{e.g.}, gender, race, RNA sequencing technique) from dominating the clustering. Although a number of works have been conducted and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Pengxin Zeng , Yunfan Li , Peng Hu , Dezhong Peng , Jiancheng Lv , Xi Peng

The objective of clustering is to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify geometrical structures which might reside there, without assuming any prior knowledge on the characteristics of the data. The problem can be seen as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Luis-Evaristo Caraballo , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher

Graph clustering is an important unsupervised learning technique for partitioning graphs with attributes and detecting communities. However, current methods struggle to accurately capture true community structures and intra-cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Samarth Bhatia , Yukti Makhija , Manoj Kumar , Sandeep Kumar

Machine learning and data mining algorithms have been increasingly used recently to support decision-making systems in many areas of high societal importance such as healthcare, education, or security. While being very efficient in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Charlotte Laclau , Ievgen Redko , Manvi Choudhary , Christine Largeron

In recent years, there has been a surge in effort to formalize notions of fairness in machine learning. We focus on centroid clustering--one of the fundamental tasks in unsupervised machine learning. We propose a new axiom ``proportionally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Haris Aziz , Barton E. Lee , Sean Morota Chu , Jeremy Vollen