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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

This article empirically examines the computational cost of solving a known hard problem, graph clustering, using novel purpose-built computer hardware. We express the graph clustering problem as an intra-cluster distance or dissimilarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Pierre Miasnikof , Seo Hong , Yuri Lawryshyn

We consider a framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, where the goal is to cluster (equivalently, to color) objects based on the primary type of multiway interactions they participate in. One well-studied objective is to color…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Alex Crane , Thomas Stanley , Blair D. Sullivan , Nate Veldt

Graph clustering is a challenging pattern recognition problem whose goal is to identify vertex partitions with high intra-group connectivity. This paper investigates a bi-objective problem that maximizes the number of intra-cluster edges of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Camila P. S. Tautenhain , Mariá C. V. Nascimento

Despite the fact that many important problems (including clustering) can be described using hypergraphs, theoretical foundations as well as practical algorithms using hypergraphs are not well developed yet. In this paper, we propose a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Bogumil Kaminski , Valerie Poulin , Pawel Pralat , Przemyslaw Szufel , Francois Theberge

Kawarabayashi and Sidiropoulos [KS22] obtained an $O(\log^2 n)$-approximation algorithm for Multicut in planar digraphs via a natural LP relaxation, which also establishes a corresponding upper bound on the multicommodity flow-cut gap.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chandra Chekuri , Rhea Jain

We consider the clustering problem of attributed graphs. Our challenge is how we can design an effective and efficient clustering method that precisely captures the hidden relationship between the topology and the attributes in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Seiji Maekawa , Koh Takeuch , Makoto Onizuka

Given a graph with positive and negative edge labels, the correlation clustering problem aims to cluster the nodes so to minimize the total number of between-cluster positive and within-cluster negative edges. This problem has many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Konstantin Makarychev , Slobodan Mitrović

In this paper, a new multi-hop weighted clustering procedure is proposed for homogeneous Mobile Ad hoc networks. The algorithm generates double star embedded non-overlapping cluster structures, where each cluster is managed by a leader node…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-05-02 T. N. Janakiraman , A. Senthil Thilak

In this work, we study the problem of partitioning a set of graphs into different groups such that the graphs in the same group are similar while the graphs in different groups are dissimilar. This problem was rarely studied previously,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinyu Cai , Yi Han , Wenzhong Guo , Jicong Fan

The clustering method based on graph models has garnered increased attention for its widespread applicability across various knowledge domains. Its adaptability to integrate seamlessly with other relevant applications endows the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xinrun Xu , Manying Lv , Zhanbiao Lian , Yurong Wu , Jin Yan , Shan Jiang , Zhiming Ding

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

Current modularity-based community detection algorithms attempt to find cluster memberships that maximize modularity within a fixed graph topology. Diverging from this conventional approach, our work introduces a novel strategy that employs…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-02-27 Yongyu Wang , Shiqi Hao , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaotian Zhuang

Higher-order connectivity patterns such as small induced sub-graphs called graphlets (network motifs) are vital to understand the important components (modules/functional units) governing the configuration and behavior of complex networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aldo G. Carranza , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Eunyee Koh

Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu

A recent trend in data mining has explored (hyper)graph clustering algorithms for data with categorical relationship types. Such algorithms have applications in the analysis of social, co-authorship, and protein interaction networks, to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Alex Crane , Brian Lavallee , Blair D. Sullivan , Nate Veldt

We generalize finite-sample bounds for convex clustering to the setting where affinity weights appearing in the objective correspond to a general connected graph. These bounds and their analysis lead to a better understanding of clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Sam Rosen , Jason Xu

Clustering large datasets is a fundamental problem with a number of applications in machine learning. Data is often collected on different sites and clustering needs to be performed in a distributed manner with low communication. We would…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jiecao Chen , He Sun , David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a weighted graph $G$ with its edges labeled as "similar" or "dissimilar" by a binary classifier. The goal is to produce a clustering that minimizes the weight of "disagreements": the sum…

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

This work introduces a hybrid quantum-classical method to correlation clustering, a graph-based unsupervised learning task that seeks to partition the nodes in a graph based on pairwise agreement and disagreement. In particular, we adapt…