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In this paper we introduce a new clustering technique called Regularity Clustering. This new technique is based on the practical variants of the two constructive versions of the Regularity Lemma, a very useful tool in graph theory. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-01 Gábor N. Sárközy , Fei Song , Endre Szemerédi , Shubhendu Trivedi

An important form of prior information in clustering comes in form of cannot-link and must-link constraints. We present a generalization of the popular spectral clustering technique which integrates such constraints. Motivated by the…

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

Spectral clustering is a powerful technique for clustering high-dimensional data, utilizing graph-based representations to detect complex, non-linear structures and non-convex clusters. The construction of a similarity graph is essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Kamal Berahmand , Farid Saberi-Movahed , Razieh Sheikhpour , Yuefeng Li , Mahdi Jalili

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

We present a novel method for graph partitioning, based on reinforcement learning and graph convolutional neural networks. Our approach is to recursively partition coarser representations of a given graph. The neural network is implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Alice Gatti , Zhixiong Hu , Tess Smidt , Esmond G. Ng , Pieter Ghysels

In this paper we study variants of the widely used spectral clustering that partitions a graph into k clusters by (1) embedding the vertices of a graph into a low-dimensional space using the bottom eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Richard Peng , He Sun , Luca Zanetti

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

Accurate land cover segmentation of spectral images is challenging and has drawn widespread attention in remote sensing due to its inherent complexity. Although significant efforts have been made for developing a variety of methods, most of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Carlos Hinojosa , Esteban Vera , Henry Arguello

We present a probabilistic graphical model formulation for the graph clustering problem. This enables to locally represent uncertainty of image partitions by approximate marginal distributions in a mathematically substantiated way, and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Jörg Hendrik Kappes , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy , Tamir Hazan , Christoph Schnörr

Hyperspectral images provide abundant spatial and spectral information that is very valuable for material detection in diverse areas of practical science. The high-dimensions of data lead to many processing challenges that can be addressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Saeideh Ghanbari Azar , Saeed Meshgini , Tohid Yousefi Rezaii , Soosan Beheshti

Semi-supervised clustering is a basic problem in various applications. Most existing methods require knowledge of the ideal cluster number, which is often difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, satisfying the must-link constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Michael K. Ng , Zaikun Zhang

Graph summarization via node grouping is a popular method to build concise graph representations by grouping nodes from the original graph into supernodes and encoding edges into superedges such that the loss of adjacency information is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Arpit Merchant , Michael Mathioudakis , Yanhao Wang

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

Efficient and easy segmentation of images and volumes is of great practical importance. Segmentation problems that motivate our approach originate from microscopy imaging commonly used in materials science, medicine, and biology. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Vedrana Andersen Dahl , Monica Jane Emerson , Camilla Himmelstrup Trinderup , Anders Bjorholm Dahl

We describe a new optimization scheme for finding high-quality correlation clusterings in planar graphs that uses weighted perfect matching as a subroutine. Our method provides lower-bounds on the energy of the optimal correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Julian Yarkony , Alexander T. Ihler , Charless C. Fowlkes

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has made notable advancements in medical image segmentation (MIS), particularly in scenarios with limited labeled data and significantly enhancing data utilization efficiency. Previous methods primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Mengzhu Wang , Jiao Li , Houcheng Su , Nan Yin , Liang Yang , Shen Li

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular methods for community detection in graphs. A key step in spectral clustering algorithms is the eigen decomposition of the $n{\times}n$ graph Laplacian matrix to extract its $k$ leading…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-10 Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Spectral clustering is one of the most prominent clustering approaches. The distance-based similarity is the most widely used method for spectral clustering. However, people have already noticed that this is not suitable for multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hengrui Wang , Yubo Zhang , Mingzhi Chen , Tong Yang

Image segmentation has many applications which range from machine learning to medical diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a framework for the segmentation of images based on super-pixels and algorithms for community identification in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Oscar A. C. Linares , Glenda Michele Botelho , Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues , João Batista Neto

Sparse decomposition has been widely used for different applications, such as source separation, image classification, image denoising and more. This paper presents a new algorithm for segmentation of an image into background and foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Shervin Minaee , Yao Wang