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Many systems comprising entities in interactions can be represented as graphs, whose structure gives significant insights about how these systems work. Network theory has undergone further developments, in particular in relation to…

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The stochastic blockmodel (SBM) models the connectivity within and between disjoint subsets of nodes in networks. Prior work demonstrated that the rows of an SBM's adjacency spectral embedding (ASE) and Laplacian spectral embedding (LSE)…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-04 Zachary M. Pisano , Joshua S. Agterberg , Carey E. Priebe , Daniel Q. Naiman

In this paper, we consider the soft geometric block model (SGBM) with a fixed number $k \geq 2$ of homogeneous communities in the dense regime, and we introduce a spectral clustering algorithm for community recovery on graphs generated by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Luiz Emilio Allem , Konstantin Avrachenkov , Carlos Hoppen , Hariprasad Manjunath , Lucas Siviero Sibemberg

We propose a novel perspective on varied-density clustering for high-dimensional data by framing it as a label propagation process in neighborhood graphs that adapt to local density variations. Our method formally connects density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ninh Pham , Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs

Graph analytics can lead to better quantitative understanding and control of complex networks, but traditional methods suffer from high computational cost and excessive memory requirements associated with the high-dimensionality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mengjia Xu

Clustering is a common technique for statistical data analysis, Clustering is the process of grouping the data into classes or clusters so that objects within a cluster have high similarity in comparison to one another, but are very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-12 T Soni Madhulatha

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 introduce a graph-theoretic approach to extract clusters and hierarchies in complex data-sets in an unsupervised and deterministic manner, without the use of any prior information. This is achieved by building topologically embedded…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-02-13 Won-Min Song , T. Di Matteo , Tomaso Aste

We present a new algorithm for clustering longitudinal data. Data of this type can be conceptualized as consisting of individuals and, for each such individual, observations of a time-dependent variable made at various times. Generically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Marie-Pierre Sylvestre , Laurence Boulanger

A natural approach to analyze interaction data of form "what-connects-to-what-when" is to create a time-series (or rather a sequence) of graphs through temporal discretization (bandwidth selection) and spatial discretization (vertex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-13 Nam H. Lee , Carey Priebe , Youngser Park , I-Jeng Wang , Michael Rosen

Hashing techniques, also known as binary code learning, have recently gained increasing attention in large-scale data analysis and storage. Generally, most existing hash clustering methods are single-view ones, which lack complete structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Guangqi Jiang , Huibing Wang , Jinjia Peng , Dongyan Chen , Xianping Fu

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

Spectral clustering has gained importance in recent years due to its ability to cluster complex data as it requires only pairwise similarity among data points with its ease of implementation. The central point in spectral clustering is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Lalith Srikanth Chintalapati , Raghunatha Sarma Rachakonda

Fuzzy clustering algorithms can be roughly categorized into two main groups: Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) based methods and mixture model based methods. However, for almost all existing FCM based methods, how to automatically selecting proper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Qiang Chen , Weizhong Yu , Feiping Nie , Xuelong Li

Deep learning has shown remarkable results on Euclidean data (e.g. audio, images, text) however this type of data is limited in the amount of relational information it can hold. In mathematics we can model more general relational data in a…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-20 Edward Turner

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning approach. Many clustering algorithms -- such as $k$-means -- rely on the euclidean distance as a similarity measure, which is often not the most relevant metric for high dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Aude Genevay , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Jean-Philippe Vert

Spectral clustering is one of the most important algorithms in data mining and machine intelligence; however, its computational complexity limits its application to truly large scale data analysis. The computational bottleneck in spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Christos Boutsidis , Alex Gittens , Prabhanjan Kambadur

Spectral clustering is popular among practitioners and theoreticians alike. While performance guarantees for spectral clustering are well understood, recent studies have focused on enforcing ``fairness'' in clusters, requiring them to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shubham Gupta , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to the increasing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest. Scalability problems…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Kimon Fountoulakis , David F. Gleich , Michael W. Mahoney

This paper studies clustering algorithms for dynamically evolving graphs $\{G_t\}$, in which new edges (and potential new vertices) are added into a graph, and the underlying cluster structure of the graph can gradually change. The paper…

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