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Nonlinear reformulations of the spectral clustering method have gained a lot of recent attention due to their increased numerical benefits and their solid mathematical background. However, the estimation of the multiple nonlinear…

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Spectral clustering is a powerful tool for unsupervised data analysis. In this paper, we propose a context-aware hypergraph similarity measure (CAHSM), which leads to robust spectral clustering in the case of noisy data. We construct three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xi Li , Weiming Hu , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Zhongfei Zhang

Spectral Method is a commonly used scheme to cluster data points lying close to Union of Subspaces by first constructing a Random Geometry Graph, called Subspace Clustering. This paper establishes a theory to analyze this method. Based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

Partitioning a graph into groups of vertices such that those within each group are more densely connected than vertices assigned to different groups, known as graph clustering, is often used to gain insight into the organisation of large…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-28 Charanpal Dhanjal , Romaric Gaudel , Stéphan Clémençon

We consider the community detection problem in sparse random hypergraphs under the non-uniform hypergraph stochastic block model (HSBM), a general model of random networks with community structure and higher-order interactions. When the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Ioana Dumitriu , Haixiao Wang , Yizhe Zhu

We propose and study a novel graph clustering method for data with an intrinsic network structure. Similar to spectral clustering, we exploit an intrinsic network structure of data to construct Euclidean feature vectors. These feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Y. SarcheshmehPour , Y. Tian , L. Zhang , A. Jung

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning with broad real-world applications. While spectral clustering methods for undirected graphs are well-established and guided by a minimum cut optimization consensus, their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Ning Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Mihai Cucuringu

Spectral clustering algorithms typically require a priori selection of input parameters such as the number of clusters, a scaling parameter for the affinity measure, or ranges of these values for parameter tuning. Despite efforts for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Milad Afzalan , Farrokh Jazizadeh

We propose a flexible framework for defining the 1-Laplacian of a hypergraph that incorporates edge-dependent vertex weights. These weights are able to reflect varying importance of vertices within a hyperedge, thus conferring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yu Zhu , Boning Li , Santiago Segarra

Despite the fundamental importance of clustering, to this day, much of the relevant research is still based on ambiguous foundations, leading to an unclear understanding of whether or how the various clustering methods are connected with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Yorgos Tsitsikas , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering, which aims at dividing hyperspectral pixels into clusters, has drawn significant attention in practical applications. Recently, many graph-based clustering methods, which construct an adjacent graph to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Qi Wang , Yanling Miao , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

Spectral methods based on the eigenvectors of matrices are widely used in the analysis of network data, particularly for community detection and graph partitioning. Standard methods based on the adjacency matrix and related matrices,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-30 M. E. J. Newman

We propose a model to address the overlooked problem of node clustering in simple hypergraphs. Simple hypergraphs are suitable when a node may not appear multiple times in the same hyperedge, such as in co-authorship datasets. Our model…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-20 Luca Brusa , Catherine Matias

A hypergraph is a useful combinatorial object to model ternary or higher-order relations among entities. Clustering hypergraphs is a fundamental task in network analysis. In this study, we develop two clustering algorithms based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuuki Takai , Atsushi Miyauchi , Masahiro Ikeda , Yuichi Yoshida

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

Graph-based clustering methods like spectral clustering and SpectralNet are very efficient in detecting clusters of non-convex shapes. Unlike the popular $k$-means, graph-based clustering methods do not assume that each cluster has a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mashaan Alshammari , John Stavrakakis , Masahiro Takatsuka

We propose a spectral clustering method based on local principal components analysis (PCA). After performing local PCA in selected neighborhoods, the algorithm builds a nearest neighbor graph weighted according to a discrepancy between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Ery Arias-Castro , Gilad Lerman , Teng Zhang

In the era of big data, methods for improving memory and computational efficiency have become crucial for successful deployment of technologies. Hashing is one of the most effective approaches to deal with computational limitations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Sobhan Hemati , Mohammad Hadi Mehdizavareh , Shojaeddin Chenouri , Hamid R Tizhoosh

Spectral clustering is a powerful unsupervised machine learning algorithm for clustering data with non convex or nested structures. With roots in graph theory, it uses the spectral properties of the Laplacian matrix to project the data in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Iordanis Kerenidis , Jonas Landman

Spectral analysis of networks states that many structural properties of graphs, such as centrality of their nodes, are given in terms of their adjacency matrices. The natural extension of such spectral analysis to higher order networks is…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Gonzalo Contreras-Aso , Cristian Pérez-Corral , Miguel Romance