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We study the problem of applying spectral clustering to cluster multi-scale data, which is data whose clusters are of various sizes and densities. Traditional spectral clustering techniques discover clusters by processing a similarity…

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Clustering is an essential technique for network analysis, with applications in a diverse range of fields. Although spectral clustering is a popular and effective method, it fails to consider higher-order structure and can perform poorly on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-14 William George Underwood , Andrew Elliott , Mihai Cucuringu

An algorithm to improve performance parameter for unsupervised decision forest clustering and density estimation is presented. Specifically, a dual assignment parameter is introduced as a density estimator by combining Random Forest and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-19 Hayder Albehadili , Naz Islam

Analysis of a Bayesian mixture model for the Matrix Langevin distribution on the Stiefel manifold is presented. The model exploits a particular parametrization of the Matrix Langevin distribution, various aspects of which are elaborated on.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-25 Subhajit Sengupta , Subhadip Pal , Riten Mitra , Ying Guo , Arunava Banerjee , Yuan Ji

Bayesian model-based spatial clustering methods are widely used for their flexibility in estimating latent clusters with an unknown number of clusters while accounting for spatial proximity. Many existing methods are designed for clustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-13 Kun Huang , Huiyan Sang

Spectral clustering is a celebrated algorithm that partitions objects based on pairwise similarity information. While this approach has been successfully applied to a variety of domains, it comes with limitations. The reason is that there…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Kwangjun Ahn , Kangwook Lee , Changho Suh

Predictions of biodiversity trajectories under climate change are crucial in order to act effectively in maintaining the diversity of species. In many ecological applications, future predictions are made under various global warming…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-19 Matthew Davidow , Cory Merow , Judy Che-Castaldo , Toryn Schafer , Marie-Christine Duker , Derek Corcoran , David Matteson

The unsupervised learning of community structure, in particular the partitioning vertices into clusters or communities, is a canonical and well-studied problem in exploratory graph analysis. However, like most graph analyses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Benjamin W. Priest , Alec Dunton , Geoffrey Sanders

Linear mixed models are widely used for analyzing hierarchically structured data involving missingness and unbalanced study designs. We consider a Bayesian clustering method that combines linear mixed models and predictive projections. For…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-07 Yinan Mao , David J. Nott

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

Spectral clustering is widely used to partition graphs into distinct modules or communities. Existing methods for spectral clustering use the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian, an operator that is closely associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Laura M. Smith , Kristina Lerman , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Allon G. Percus , Rumi Ghosh

Spectral clustering has found extensive use in many areas. Most traditional spectral clustering algorithms work in three separate steps: similarity graph construction; continuous labels learning; discretizing the learned labels by k-means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Qiang Cheng , Zenglin Xu

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

We present clustering methods for multivariate data exploiting the underlying geometry of the graphical structure between variables. As opposed to standard approaches that assume known graph structures, we first estimate the edge structure…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-28 Sayantan Banerjee , Rehan Akbani , Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani

Spectral clustering has become a popular technique due to its high performance in many contexts. It comprises three main steps: create a similarity graph between N objects to cluster, compute the first k eigenvectors of its Laplacian matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Nicolas Tremblay , Gilles Puy , Remi Gribonval , Pierre Vandergheynst

We take an image science perspective on the problem of determining brain network connectivity given functional activity. But adapting the concept of image resolution to this problem, we provide a new perspective on network partitioning for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-14 Keith Dillon , Yu-Ping Wang

Spectral clustering is a leading and popular technique in unsupervised data analysis. Two of its major limitations are scalability and generalization of the spectral embedding (i.e., out-of-sample-extension). In this paper we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-06 Uri Shaham , Kelly Stanton , Henry Li , Boaz Nadler , Ronen Basri , Yuval Kluger

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

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

Clustering is the problem of separating a set of objects into groups (called clusters) so that objects within the same cluster are more similar to each other than to those in different clusters. Spectral clustering is a now well-known…

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