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The two-step spectral clustering method, which consists of the Laplacian eigenmap and a rounding step, is a widely used method for graph partitioning. It can be seen as a natural relaxation to the NP-hard minimum ratio cut problem. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-14 March Boedihardjo , Shaofeng Deng , Thomas Strohmer

The graph partitioning problem has many applications in scientific computing such as computer aided design, data mining, image compression and other applications with sparse-matrix vector multiplications as a kernel operation. In many cases…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Foad Lotfifar , Matthew Johnson

This paper describes a graph clustering algorithm that aims to minimize the normalized cut criterion and has a model order selection procedure. The performance of the proposed algorithm is comparable to spectral approaches in terms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-06 Seyed Salim Tabatabaei , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

Spectral Clustering as a relaxation of the normalized/ratio cut has become one of the standard graph-based clustering methods. Existing methods for the computation of multiple clusters, corresponding to a balanced $k$-cut of the graph, are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-26 Syama Sundar Rangapuram , Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Matthias Hein

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Data annotation for training supervised methods can be labor-intensive, motivating unsupervised methods. Current approaches often rely on extracting deep features from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Amit Aflalo , Shai Bagon , Tamar Kashti , Yonina Eldar

We are interested in multilayer graph clustering, which aims at dividing the graph nodes into categories or communities. To do so, we propose to learn a clustering-friendly embedding of the graph nodes by solving an optimization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

We present TeraPart, a memory-efficient multilevel graph partitioning method that is designed to scale to extremely large graphs. In balanced graph partitioning, the goal is to divide the vertices into $k$ blocks with balanced size while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Daniel Salwasser , Daniel Seemaier , Lars Gottesbüren , Peter Sanders

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

This is a survey of the method of graph cuts and its applications to graph clustering of weighted unsigned and signed graphs. I provide a fairly thorough treatment of the method of normalized graph cuts, a deeply original method due to Shi…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Jean Gallier

In the first part of this paper, we survey results that are associated with three types of Laplacian matrices:difference, normalized, and signless. We derive eigenvalue and eigenvector formulaes for paths and cycles using circulant matrices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-06 K. K. K. R. Perera , Yoshihiro Mizoguchi

We present a simple spectral approach to the well-studied constrained clustering problem. It captures constrained clustering as a generalized eigenvalue problem with graph Laplacians. The algorithm works in nearly-linear time and provides…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Mihai Cucuringu , Ioannis Koutis , Sanjay Chawla , Gary Miller , Richard Peng

A common way of partitioning graphs is through minimum cuts. One drawback of classical minimum cut methods is that they tend to produce small groups, which is why more balanced variants such as normalized and ratio cuts have seen more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Chakib Fettal , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif

Expander decompositions of graphs have significantly advanced the understanding of many classical graph problems and led to numerous fundamental theoretical results. However, their adoption in practice has been hindered due to their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke , Maximilian Vötsch

Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Yudong Chen , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

Spectral clustering, as a popular tool for data clustering, requires an eigen-decomposition step on a given affinity to obtain the spectral embedding. Nevertheless, such a step suffers from the lack of generalizability and scalability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Wei He , Shangzhi Zhang , Chun-Guang Li , Xianbiao Qi , Rong Xiao , Jun Guo

The most commonly used method to tackle the graph partitioning problem in practice is the multilevel approach. During a coarsening phase, a multilevel graph partitioning algorithm reduces the graph size by iteratively contracting nodes and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Henning Meyerhenke , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to growing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods such as spectral partitioning can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Julian Shun , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Kimon Fountoulakis , Michael W. Mahoney

Many data types arising from data mining applications can be modeled as bipartite graphs, examples include terms and documents in a text corpus, customers and purchasing items in market basket analysis and reviewers and movies in a movie…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 H. Zha , X. He , C. Ding , M. Gu , H. Simon

In Bipartite Correlation Clustering (BCC) we are given a complete bipartite graph $G$ with `+' and `-' edges, and we seek a vertex clustering that maximizes the number of agreements: the number of all `+' edges within clusters plus all `-'…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Megasthenis Asteris , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We study the clustering of bipartite graphs and Boolean matrix factorization in data streams. We consider a streaming setting in which the vertices from the left side of the graph arrive one by one together with all of their incident edges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Stefan Neumann , Pauli Miettinen