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We present a novel hierarchical graph clustering algorithm inspired by modularity-based clustering techniques. The algorithm is agglomerative and based on a simple distance between clusters induced by the probability of sampling node pairs.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Thomas Bonald , Bertrand Charpentier , Alexis Galland , Alexandre Hollocou

In this paper, we present a novel method for co-clustering, an unsupervised learning approach that aims at discovering homogeneous groups of data instances and features by grouping them simultaneously. The proposed method uses the entropy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-22 Charlotte Laclau , Ievgen Redko , Basarab Matei , Younès Bennani , Vincent Brault

The community structure of complex networks reveals both their organization and hidden relationships among their constituents. Most community detection methods currently available are not deterministic, and their results typically depend on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-29 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Wasserstein barycenter, built on the theory of optimal transport, provides a powerful framework to aggregate probability distributions, and it has increasingly attracted great attention within the machine learning community. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jinjin Chi , Zhiyao Yang , Jihong Ouyang , Ximing Li

Topological methods have the potential of exploring data clouds without making assumptions on their the structure. Here we propose a hierarchical topological clustering algorithm that can be implemented with any distance choice. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ana Carpio , Gema Duro

This paper presents a robust and efficient method for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar data. Structures are tracked based on the optimal matching between persistence diagrams with respect to the Wasserstein metric. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-03 Maxime Soler , Mélanie Plainchault , Bruno Conche , Julien Tierny

Efficient extraction of useful knowledge from these data is still a challenge, mainly when the data is distributed, heterogeneous and of different quality depending on its corresponding local infrastructure. To reduce the overhead cost,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

Unravelling the block structure of a network is critical for studying macroscopic features and community-level dynamics. The weighted stochastic block model (WSBM), a variation of the traditional stochastic block model, is designed for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Wooseok Jung

The clustering problem, and more generally, latent factor discovery --or latent space inference-- is formulated in terms of the Wasserstein barycenter problem from optimal transport. The objective proposed is the maximization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Hongkang Yang , Esteban G. Tabak

We propose an algorithm that builds and maintains clusters over a network subject to mobility. This algorithm is fully decentralized and makes all the different clusters grow concurrently. The algorithm uses circulating tokens that collect…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-15 Thibault Bernard , Alain Bui , Laurence Pilard , Devan Sohier

We develop a novel clustering method for distributional data, where each data point is regarded as a probability distribution on the real line. For distributional data, it has been challenging to develop a clustering method that utilizes…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-24 Ryo Okano , Masaaki Imaizumi

Clustering, a fundamental task in data science and machine learning, groups a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same cluster are closer to each other than to those in other clusters. In this paper, we consider a well-known…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Georgia Avarikioti , Alain Ryser , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

Visual grouping is a key mechanism in human scene perception. There, it belongs to the subconscious, early processing and is key prerequisite for other high level tasks such as recognition. In this paper, we introduce an efficient, realtime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Dominik Alexander Klein , Dirk Schulz , Armin Bernd Cremers

Clustering of high-dimensional data sets is a growing need in artificial intelligence, machine learning and pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose a new clustering method based on a combinatorial-topological approach applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mauricio Toledo-Acosta , Luis Ángel Ramos-García , Jorge Hermosillo-Valadez

Persistent homology is a natural tool for probing the topological characteristics of weighted graphs, essentially focusing on their $0$-dimensional homology. While this area has been substantially studied, we present a new approach to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

We propose a new \cu{class-optimal} algorithm for the distributed computation of Wasserstein Barycenters over networks. Assuming that each node in a graph has a probability distribution, we prove that every node can reach the barycenter of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-24 César A. Uribe , Darina Dvinskikh , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

Spectral clustering is one of the most prominent clustering approaches. The distance-based similarity is the most widely used method for spectral clustering. However, people have already noticed that this is not suitable for multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hengrui Wang , Yubo Zhang , Mingzhi Chen , Tong Yang

Many data clustering applications must handle objects that cannot be represented as vectors. In this context, the bag-of-vectors representation describes complex objects through discrete distributions, for which the Wasserstein distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Alfredo Oneto , Blazhe Gjorgiev , Giovanni Sansavini

We present a new fast online clustering algorithm that reliably recovers arbitrary-shaped data clusters in high throughout data streams. Unlike the existing state-of-the-art online clustering methods based on k-means or k-medoid, it does…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Krzysztof Choromanski , Sanjiv Kumar , Xiaofeng Liu

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