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Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

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Image segmentation is a fundamental research topic in image processing and computer vision. In the last decades, researchers developed a large number of segmentation algorithms for various applications. Amongst these algorithms, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Faqiang Wang , Cuicui Zhao , Jun Liu , Haiyang Huang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become increasingly important due to their representational power and state-of-the-art predictive performance on many fundamental learning tasks. Despite this success, GNNs suffer from fairness issues that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 April Chen , Ryan A. Rossi , Namyong Park , Puja Trivedi , Yu Wang , Tong Yu , Sungchul Kim , Franck Dernoncourt , Nesreen K. Ahmed

We study large-scale, distributed graph clustering. Given an undirected graph, our objective is to partition the nodes into disjoint sets called clusters. A cluster should contain many internal edges while being sparsely connected to other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Michael Hamann , Ben Strasser , Dorothea Wagner , Tim Zeitz

In this paper we study fair variants of MSO$_1$ definable problems parameterized by cluster vertex deletion number, i.e., the smallest number of vertices required to be removed from the graph such that what remains is a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tomáš Masařík , Jędrzej Olkowski , Anna Zych-Pawlewicz

Graph clustering aims at discovering a natural grouping of the nodes such that similar nodes are assigned to a common cluster. Many different algorithms have been proposed in the literature: for simple graphs, for graphs with attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ylli Sadikaj , Yllka Velaj , Sahar Behzadi , Claudia Plant

We study the problem of graph clustering under a broad class of objectives in which the quality of a cluster is defined based on the ratio between the number of edges in the cluster, and the total weight of vertices in the cluster. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Christian Sohler

Fairness is an important topic for medical image analysis, driven by the challenge of unbalanced training data among diverse target groups and the societal demand for equitable medical quality. In response to this issue, our research adopts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Wenyi Li , Haoran Xu , Guiyu Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Mingju Gao , Mengyu Wang , Hao Zhao

We study the question of fair clustering under the {\em disparate impact} doctrine, where each protected class must have approximately equal representation in every cluster. We formulate the fair clustering problem under both the $k$-center…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Flavio Chierichetti , Ravi Kumar , Silvio Lattanzi , Sergei Vassilvitskii

As machine learning has become more prevalent, researchers have begun to recognize the necessity of ensuring machine learning systems are fair. Recently, there has been an interest in defining a notion of fairness that mitigates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Sara Ahmadian , Alessandro Epasto , Marina Knittel , Ravi Kumar , Mohammad Mahdian , Benjamin Moseley , Philip Pham , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Yuyan Wang

Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN) has achieved remarkable progresses in various real-world tasks on graph data, consisting of node features and the adjacent information between different nodes. High-performance GNN models always depend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Chaochao Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Zheng , Huiwen Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Jia Wu , Bingzhe Wu , Ziqi Liu , Li Wang , Xiaolin Zheng

In the planted partition problem, the $n$ vertices of a random graph are partitioned into $k$ "clusters," and edges between vertices in the same cluster and different clusters are included with constant probability $p$ and $q$, respectively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Sam Cole

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely used for various types of graph data processing and analytical tasks in different domains. Training GNNs over centralized graph data can be infeasible due to privacy concerns and regulatory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Nan Cui , Xiuling Wang , Wendy Hui Wang , Violet Chen , Yue Ning

Graph condensation (GC) has become a vital strategy for scaling Graph Neural Networks by compressing massive datasets into small, synthetic node sets. While current GC methods effectively maintain predictive accuracy, they are primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yihan Gao , Chenxi Huang , Wen Shi , Ke Sun , Ziqi Xu , Xikun Zhang , Mingliang Hou , Renqiang Luo

This paper proposes an affinity fusion graph framework to effectively connect different graphs with highly discriminating power and nonlinearity for natural image segmentation. The proposed framework combines adjacency-graphs and kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Yang Zhang , Moyun Liu , Jingwu He , Fei Pan , Yanwen Guo

In this paper, we consider the problem of partitioning a small data sample of size $n$ drawn from a mixture of $2$ sub-gaussian distributions. Our work is motivated by the application of clustering individuals according to their population…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Shuheng Zhou

The classic Cluster Editing problem (also known as Correlation Clustering) asks to transform a given graph into a disjoint union of cliques (clusters) by a small number of edge modifications. When applied to vertex-colored graphs (the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Vincent Froese , Leon Kellerhals , Rolf Niedermeier

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) enables privacy-preserving, distributed training of graph neural networks without sharing raw data. Among its approaches, subgraph-FL has become the dominant paradigm, with most work focused on improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhengyu Wu , Boyang Pang , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Daohan Su , Bowen Fan , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang , Chenghu Zhou

The C-Planarity problem asks for a drawing of a $\textit{clustered graph}$, i.e., a graph whose vertices belong to properly nested clusters, in which each cluster is represented by a simple closed region with no edge-edge crossings, no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Giordano Da Lozzo , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Siddharth Gupta

Hypergraph partitioning is a recurring NP-hard problem in engineering; its efficient solution at scale hinges on parallelism. This work proposes a GPU-centric algorithm for multi-level hypergraph partitioning aimed at a specific set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano