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In the Correlation Clustering problem we are given $n$ nodes, and a preference for each pair of nodes indicating whether we prefer the two endpoints to be in the same cluster or not. The output is a clustering inducing the minimum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Nick Fischer , Evangelos Kipouridis , Jonas Klausen , Mikkel Thorup

Correlation clustering is a central problem in unsupervised learning, with applications spanning community detection, duplicate detection, automated labelling and many more. In the correlation clustering problem one receives as input a set…

We give new rounding schemes for the standard linear programming relaxation of the correlation clustering problem, achieving approximation factors almost matching the integrality gaps: - For complete graphs our appoximation is $2.06 -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Shuchi Chawla , Konstantin Makarychev , Tselil Schramm , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Identifying clusters of similar elements in a set is a common task in data analysis. With the immense growth of data and physical limitations on single processor speed, it is necessary to find efficient parallel algorithms for clustering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Mélanie Cambus , Davin Choo , Havu Miikonen , Jara Uitto

We consider a generalized version of the correlation clustering problem, defined as follows. Given a complete graph $G$ whose edges are labeled with $+$ or $-$, we wish to partition the graph into clusters while trying to avoid errors: $+$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

Bipartite Correlation clustering is the problem of generating a set of disjoint bi-cliques on a set of nodes while minimizing the symmetric difference to a bipartite input graph. The number or size of the output clusters is not constrained…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Nir Ailon , Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli , Edo Liberty

We consider inapproximability of the correlation clustering problem defined as follows: Given a graph $G = (V,E)$ where each edge is labeled either "+" (similar) or "-" (dissimilar), correlation clustering seeks to partition the vertices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-03-23 Jinsong Tan

We study streaming algorithms for Correlation Clustering. Given a graph as an arbitrary-order stream of edges, with each edge labeled as positive or negative, the goal is to partition the vertices into disjoint clusters, such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yinhao Dong , Shan Jiang , Shi Li , Pan Peng

This paper presents an $O(\log\log \bar{d})$ round massively parallel algorithm for $1+\epsilon$ approximation of maximum weighted $b$-matchings, using near-linear memory per machine. Here $\bar{d}$ denotes the average degree in the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Slobodan Mitrović

Ashtiani et al. (NIPS 2016) introduced a semi-supervised framework for clustering (SSAC) where a learner is allowed to make same-cluster queries. More specifically, in their model, there is a query oracle that answers queries of the form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Nir Ailon , Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal

Given a similarity graph between items, correlation clustering (CC) groups similar items together and dissimilar ones apart. One of the most popular CC algorithms is KwikCluster: an algorithm that serially clusters neighborhoods of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Xinghao Pan , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Samet Oymak , Benjamin Recht , Kannan Ramchandran , Michael I. Jordan

Correlation Clustering (CC) is a foundational problem in unsupervised learning that models binary similarity relations using labeled graphs. While classical CC has been widely studied, many real-world applications involve more nuanced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chenglin Fan , Dahoon Lee , Euiwoong Lee

Several clustering frameworks with interactive (semi-supervised) queries have been studied in the past. Recently, clustering with same-cluster queries has become popular. An algorithm in this setting has access to an oracle with full…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Barna Saha , Sanjay Subramanian

In correlation clustering, we are given $n$ objects together with a binary similarity score between each pair of them. The goal is to partition the objects into clusters so to minimise the disagreements with the scores. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Marco Bressan , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Andrea Paudice , Fabio Vitale

Correlation clustering is a technique for aggregating data based on qualitative information about which pairs of objects are labeled 'similar' or 'dissimilar.' Because the optimization problem is NP-hard, much of the previous literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth , David F. Gleich

This paper considers correlation clustering on unweighted complete graphs. We give a combinatorial algorithm that returns a single clustering solution that is simultaneously $O(1)$-approximate for all $\ell_p$-norms of the disagreement…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Sami Davies , Benjamin Moseley , Heather Newman

We propose the first \emph{local search} algorithm for Euclidean clustering that attains an $O(1)$-approximation in almost-linear time. Specifically, for Euclidean $k$-Means, our algorithm achieves an $O(c)$-approximation in $\tilde{O}(n^{1…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Yaonan Jin , Jianing Lou , Pinyan Lu

In machine learning, correlation clustering is an important problem whose goal is to partition the individuals into groups that correlate with their pairwise similarities as much as possible. In this work, we revisit the correlation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Daogao Liu

Clustering is a fundamental tool for analyzing large data sets. A rich body of work has been devoted to designing data-stream algorithms for the relevant optimization problems such as $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. Such algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Kook Jin Ahn , Graham Cormode , Sudipto Guha , Andrew McGregor , Anthony Wirth

Correlation clustering is a well-studied problem, first proposed by Bansal, Blum, and Chawla [Mach. Learn. '04]. The input is an unweighted, undirected graph. The problem is to cluster the vertices so as to minimize the number of edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Shi Li , David Rasmussen Lolck , Alantha Newman , Mikkel Thorup , Lukas Vogl , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang