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Timestamped relational datasets consisting of records between pairs of entities are ubiquitous in data and network science. For applications like peer-to-peer communication, email, social network interactions, and computer network security,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Michael Ostroski , Geoffrey Sanders , Trevor Steil , Roger Pearce

Correlation Clustering is a powerful graph partitioning model that aims to cluster items based on the notion of similarity between items. An instance of the Correlation Clustering problem consists of a graph $G$ (not necessarily complete)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Timothy Zhou

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

This paper initiates the study of the classic balanced graph partitioning problem from an online perspective: Given an arbitrary sequence of pairwise communication requests between $n$ nodes, with patterns that may change over time, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Chen Avin , Marcin Bienkowski , Andreas Loukas , Maciej Pacut , Stefan Schmid

We present an efficient algorithm for the min-max correlation clustering problem. The input is a complete graph where edges are labeled as either positive $(+)$ or negative $(-)$, and the objective is to find a clustering that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nairen Cao , Steven Roche , Hsin-Hao Su

Correlation clustering is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem arising in many contexts and applications that has been the subject of dozens of papers in the literature. In this problem we are given a general weighted graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Saba Ahmadi , Sainyam Galhotra , Samir Khuller , Barna Saha , Roy Schwartz

Spectral clustering methodologies, when extended to accommodate signed graphs, have encountered notable limitations in effectively encapsulating inherent grouping relationships. Recent findings underscore a substantial deterioration in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Muhieddine Shebaro , Lucas Rusnak , Martin Burtscher , Jelena Tešić

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

Motivated by applications in social and biological network analysis, we introduce a new form of agnostic clustering termed~\emph{motif correlation clustering}, which aims to minimize the cost of clustering errors associated with both edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Pan Li , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

Graph clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that partitions the nodes in a graph into different groups. Despite achieving significant progress in exploiting both attributed and structured data information, graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyang Hou , Zhihua Tian , Yan he , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Qingbiao Wu , Kui Ren

We introduce fast algorithms for correlation clustering with respect to the Min Max objective that provide constant factor approximations on complete graphs. Our algorithms are the first purely combinatorial approximation algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Sami Davies , Benjamin Moseley , Heather Newman

We introduce a dynamic version of the NP-hard graph problem Cluster Editing. The essential point here is to take into account dynamically evolving input graphs: Having a cluster graph (that is, a disjoint union of cliques) that represents a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Junjie Luo , Hendrik Molter , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

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

Correlation Clustering is a fundamental and widely-studied problem in unsupervised learning and data mining. The input is a graph and the goal is to construct a clustering minimizing the number of inter-cluster edges plus the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Shi Li , Euiwoong Lee , David Rasmussen Lolck , Alantha Newman , Mikkel Thorup , Lukas Vogl , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

Graph clustering is an important technique to understand the relationships between the vertices in a big graph. In this paper, we propose a novel random-walk-based graph clustering method. The proposed method restricts the reach of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Honglei Zhang , Jenni Raitoharju , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a complete weighted graph $G$ with its edges labeled as "similar" and "dissimilar" by a noisy binary classifier. For a clustering $\mathcal{C}$ of graph $G$, a similar edge is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jafar Jafarov , Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev

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

We present a new approach for solving (minimum disagreement) correlation clustering that results in sublinear algorithms with highly efficient time and space complexity for this problem. In particular, we obtain the following algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sepehr Assadi , Chen Wang

Motivated by social balance theory, we develop a theory of link classification in signed networks using the correlation clustering index as measure of label regularity. We derive learning bounds in terms of correlation clustering within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi , Claudio Gentile , Fabio Vitale , Giovanni Zappella

Local graph clustering is an important algorithmic technique for analysing massive graphs, and has been widely applied in many research fields of data science. While the objective of most (local) graph clustering algorithms is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Peter Macgregor , He Sun