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We recently proposed a new ensemble clustering algorithm for graphs (ECG) based on the concept of consensus clustering. We validated our approach by replicating a study comparing graph clustering algorithms over benchmark graphs, showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Valérie Poulin , François Théberge

One key use of k-means clustering is to identify cluster prototypes which can serve as representative points for a dataset. However, a drawback of using k-means cluster centers as representative points is that such points distort the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-15 Arvind Krishna , Simon Mak , Roshan Joseph

Cluster analysis which focuses on the grouping and categorization of similar elements is widely used in various fields of research. Inspired by the phenomenon of atomic fission, a novel density-based clustering algorithm is proposed in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Shizhan Lu

Graph construction is a crucial step in spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL). Spectral methods applied on standard graphs such as full-RBF, $\epsilon$-graphs and $k$-NN graphs can lead to poor performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-05-09 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama , Manqi Zhao

This paper studies a factor modeling-based approach for clustering high-dimensional data generated from a mixture of strongly correlated variables. Statistical modeling with correlated structures pervades modern applications in economics,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Shange Tang , Soham Jana , Jianqing Fan

Correlation Clustering is an elegant model that captures fundamental graph cut problems such as Min $s-t$ Cut, Multiway Cut, and Multicut, extensively studied in combinatorial optimization. Here, we are given a graph with edges labeled $+$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Moses Charikar , Neha Gupta , Roy Schwartz

Federated clustering addresses the critical challenge of extracting patterns from decentralized, unlabeled data. However, it is hampered by the flaw that current approaches are forced to accept a compromise between performance and privacy:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Guanxiong He , Jie Wang , Liaoyuan Tang , Zheng Wang , Rong Wang , Feiping Nie

Subspace clustering aims to group data points into multiple clusters of which each corresponds to one subspace. Most existing subspace clustering approaches assume that input data lie on linear subspaces. In practice, however, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Liangli Zhen , Dezhong Peng , Wei Wang , Xin Yao

We consider the graph similarity computation (GSC) task based on graph edit distance (GED) estimation. State-of-the-art methods treat GSC as a learning-based prediction task using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). To capture fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Wei Zhuo , Guang Tan

Attempting to fully exploit the rich information of topological structure and node features for attributed graph, we introduce self-supervised learning mechanism to graph representation learning and propose a novel Self-supervised Consensus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Changshu Liu , Liangjian Wen , Zhao Kang , Guangchun Luo , Ling Tian

Contrastive learning has recently attracted plenty of attention in deep graph clustering for its promising performance. However, complicated data augmentations and time-consuming graph convolutional operation undermine the efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yue Liu , Xihong Yang , Sihang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

SpectralNet is a graph clustering method that uses neural network to find an embedding that separates the data. So far it was only used with $k$-nn graphs, which are usually constructed using a distance metric (e.g., Euclidean distance).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mashaan Alshammari , John Stavrakakis , Adel F. Ahmed , Masahiro Takatsuka

An improved version of the sparse multiway kernel spectral clustering (KSC) is presented in this brief. The original algorithm is derived from weighted kernel principal component (KPCA) analysis formulated within the primal-dual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mihaly Novak , Rocco Langone , Carlos Alzate , Johan Suykens

Subspace clustering (SC) aims to cluster data lying in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Usually, SC learns an affinity matrix and then performs spectral clustering. Both steps suffer from high time and space complexity, which leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jicong Fan

Traditional nearest points methods use all the samples in an image set to construct a single convex or affine hull model for classification. However, strong artificial features and noisy data may be generated from combinations of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Shaokang Chen , Arnold Wiliem , Conrad Sanderson , Brian C. Lovell

We introduce a novel algorithm to perform graph clustering in the edge streaming setting. In this model, the graph is presented as a sequence of edges that can be processed strictly once. Our streaming algorithm has an extremely low memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Alexandre Hollocou , Julien Maudet , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

Graph clustering is an important unsupervised learning technique for partitioning graphs with attributes and detecting communities. However, current methods struggle to accurately capture true community structures and intra-cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Samarth Bhatia , Yukti Makhija , Manoj Kumar , Sandeep Kumar

Traditional clustering methods typically focus on either cluster-wise global clustering or point-wise local clustering to reveal the intrinsic structures in unlabeled data. Global clustering optimizes an objective function to explore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yuxuan Yan , Na Lu , Difei Mei , Ruofan Yan , Youtian Du

Graph clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis with applications in many different fields. While there is a large body of work on clustering undirected graphs, the problem of clustering directed graphs is much less understood.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-31 James Martin , Tim Rogers , Luca Zanetti

Spectral clustering has shown a superior performance in analyzing the cluster structure. However, its computational complexity limits its application in analyzing large-scale data. To address this problem, many low-rank matrix approximating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Djallel Bouneffouf