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Semi-supervised clustering is a basic problem in various applications. Most existing methods require knowledge of the ideal cluster number, which is often difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, satisfying the must-link constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Michael K. Ng , Zaikun Zhang

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

This paper considers the problem of clustering a partially observed unweighted graph---i.e., one where for some node pairs we know there is an edge between them, for some others we know there is no edge, and for the remaining we do not know…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Yudong Chen , Ali Jalali , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

Recently, there has been substantial interest in clustering research that takes a beyond worst-case approach to the analysis of algorithms. The typical idea is to design a clustering algorithm that outputs a near-optimal solution, provided…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Maria-Florina Balcan , Colin White

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning problem where a dataset is partitioned into clusters that consist of nearby points in a metric space. A recent variant, fair clustering, associates a color with each point representing its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Seyed A. Esmaeili , Brian Brubach , Aravind Srinivasan , John P. Dickerson

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

Max-k-Cut and correlation clustering are fundamental graph partitioning problems. For a graph with G=(V,E) with n vertices, the methods with the best approximation guarantees for Max-k-Cut and the Max-Agree variant of correlation clustering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Nimita Shinde , Vishnu Narayanan , James Saunderson

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning methodology where unlabeled elements/objects are grouped together aiming to the construction of well-established clusters that their elements are classified according to their similarity. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-20 Dimitrios Saligkaras , Vasileios E. Papageorgiou

One important tool is the optimal clustering of data into useful categories. Dividing similar objects into a smaller number of clusters is of importance in many applications. These include search engines, monitoring of academic performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Gavriel Yarmish , Philip Listowsky , Simon Dexter

There is no, nor will there ever be, single best clustering algorithm. Nevertheless, we would still like to be able to distinguish between methods that work well on certain task types and those that systematically underperform. Clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Marek Gagolewski

Community detection is a central task in network analysis, with applications in social, biological, and technological systems. Traditional algorithms rely primarily on network topology, which can fail when community signals are partly…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-24 Zeyu Hu , Wenrui Li , Jun Yan , Panpan Zhang

The method of Hol\'y, Sokol and \v{C}ern\'y (Applied Soft Computing, 2017, Vol. 60, p. 752-762) clusters objects based on their incidence in a large number of given sets. The idea is to minimize the occurrence of multiple objects from the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Ondřej Sokol , Vladimír Holý

Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti

Unsupervised clustering, also known as natural clustering, stands for the classification of data according to their similarities. Here we study this problem from the perspective of complex networks. Mapping the description of data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-08-22 Clara Granell , Sergio Gomez , Alex Arenas

Clustering is a fundamental task in machine learning and data analysis, but it frequently fails to provide fair representation for various marginalized communities defined by multiple protected attributes -- a shortcoming often caused by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Diptarka Chakraborty , Kushagra Chatterjee , Debarati Das , Tien-Long Nguyen

The clustering ensemble technique aims to combine multiple clusterings into a probably better and more robust clustering and has been receiving an increasing attention in recent years. There are mainly two aspects of limitations in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-06 Dong Huang , Jian-Huang Lai , Chang-Dong Wang

Constructing a similarity graph from a set $X$ of data points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is the first step of many modern clustering algorithms. However, typical constructions of a similarity graph have high time complexity, and a quadratic space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Peter Macgregor , He Sun

Clustering is the task of gathering similar data samples into clusters without using any predefined labels. It has been widely studied in machine learning literature, and recent advancements in deep learning have revived interest in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

Sum-of-norms clustering is a clustering formulation based on convex optimization that automatically induces hierarchy. Multiple algorithms have been proposed to solve the optimization problem: subgradient descent by Hocking et al., ADMM and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Tao Jiang , Stephen Vavasis

We study the classic correlation clustering in the dynamic setting. Given $n$ objects and a complete labeling of the object-pairs as either similar or dissimilar, the goal is to partition the objects into arbitrarily many clusters while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Soheil Behnezhad , Moses Charikar , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Alma Ghafari , Weiyun Ma