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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

Hierarchical clustering over graphs is a fundamental task in data mining and machine learning with applications in domains such as phylogenetics, social network analysis, and information retrieval. Specifically, we consider the recently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Arpit Agarwal , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li , Prathamesh Patil

We introduce TeraHAC, a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) algorithm which scales to trillion-edge graphs. Our algorithm is based on a new approach to computing $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate HAC, which is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Laxman Dhulipala , Jason Lee , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

This paper presents new parallel algorithms for generating Euclidean minimum spanning trees and spatial clustering hierarchies (known as HDBSCAN$^*$). Our approach is based on generating a well-separated pair decomposition followed by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yiqiu Wang , Shangdi Yu , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

We consider the problem of graph generation guided by network statistics, i.e., the generation of graphs which have given values of various numerical measures that characterize networks, such as the clustering coefficient and the number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jérôme Kunegis , Jun Sun , Eiko Yoneki

Sparse, irregular graphs show up in various applications like linear algebra, machine learning, engineering simulations, robotic control, etc. These graphs have a high degree of parallelism, but their execution on parallel threads of modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Nimish Shah , Wannes Meert , Marian Verhelst

Cut-based directed graph (digraph) clustering often focuses on finding dense within-cluster or sparse between-cluster connections, similar to cut-based undirected graph clustering methods. In contrast, for flow-based clusterings the edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Koby Hayashi , Sinan G. Aksoy , Haesun Park

Deep recommender systems rely heavily on large embedding tables to handle high-cardinality categorical features such as user/item identifiers, and face significant memory constraints at scale. To tackle this challenge, hashing techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xinyi Wu , Donald Loveland , Runjin Chen , Yozen Liu , Xin Chen , Leonardo Neves , Ali Jadbabaie , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Neil Shah , Tong Zhao

Spectral clustering approaches have led to well-accepted algorithms for finding accurate clusters in a given dataset. However, their application to large-scale datasets has been hindered by computational complexity of eigenvalue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Shahzad Bhatti , Carolyn Beck , Angelia Nedic

We develop an algorithm that finds the consensus of many different clustering solutions of a graph. We formulate the problem as a median set partitioning problem and propose a greedy optimization technique. Unlike other approaches that find…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Md Taufique Hussain , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Samrat Chatterjee , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato , Ariful Azad

Obtaining scalable algorithms for hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) is of significant interest due to the massive size of real-world datasets. At the same time, efficiently parallelizing HAC is difficult due to the seemingly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Laxman Dhulipala , David Eisenstat , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirronki , Jessica Shi

This paper presents algorithms for hierarchical, agglomerative clustering which perform most efficiently in the general-purpose setup that is given in modern standard software. Requirements are: (1) the input data is given by pairwise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-09-13 Daniel Müllner

Hypergraphs are generalisation of graphs in which a hyperedge can connect any number of vertices. It can describe n-ary relationships and high-order information among entities compared to conventional graphs. In this paper, we study the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhengyi Yang , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Ying Zhang , Shunyang Li

Graphs and their traversal is becoming significant as it is applicable to various areas of mathematics, science and technology. Various problems in fields as varied as biochemistry (genomics), electrical engineering (communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Anuj Sharma , Syed Mohammed Arshad Zaidi

Temporal graph clustering is a complex task that involves discovering meaningful structures in dynamic graphs where relationships and entities change over time. Existing methods typically require centralized data collection, which poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zihao Zhou , Yang Liu , Xianghong Xu , Qian Li

Counting and finding triangles in graphs is often used in real-world analytics to characterize cohesiveness and identify communities in graphs. In this paper, we propose the novel concept of a cover-edge set that can be used to find…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-19 David A. Bader , Fuhuan Li , Anya Ganeshan , Ahmet Gundogdu , Jason Lew , Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez , Zhihui Du

The vast amounts of data used in social, business or traffic networks, biology and other natural sciences are often managed in graph-based data sets, consisting of a few thousand up to billions and trillions of vertices and edges,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Matthias Hauck , Ismail Oukid , Holger Fröning

Multimodal graphs, which integrate unstructured heterogeneous data with structured interconnections, offer substantial real-world utility but remain insufficiently explored in unsupervised learning. In this work, we initiate the study of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhaochen Guo , Zhixiang Shen , Xuanting Xie , Liangjian Wen , Zhao Kang

Graph processing at scale presents many challenges, including the irregular structure of graphs, the latency-bound nature of graph algorithms, and the overhead associated with distributed execution. While existing frameworks such as Spark…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Karame Mohammadiporshokooh , Panagiotis Syskakis , Andrew Lumsdaine , Hartmut Kaiser

Motivated by extracting and summarizing relevant information in short sentence settings, such as satisfaction questionnaires, hotel reviews, and X/Twitter, we study the problem of clustering words in a hierarchical fashion. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Eliabelle Mauduit , Andrea Simonetto