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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

This paper establishes the consistency of spectral approaches to data clustering. We consider clustering of point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. A graph representing the point cloud is obtained by assigning weights to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Nicolás García Trillos , Dejan Slepčev

Subspace clustering is an important unsupervised clustering approach. It is based on the assumption that the high-dimensional data points are approximately distributed around several low-dimensional linear subspaces. The majority of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Maryam Abdolali , Nicolas Gillis

Spectral clustering is a standard approach to label nodes on a graph by studying the (largest or lowest) eigenvalues of a symmetric real matrix such as e.g. the adjacency or the Laplacian. Recently, it has been argued that using instead a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-30 Alaa Saade , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

We propose a Deep Variational Clustering (DVC) framework for unsupervised representation learning and clustering of large-scale medical images. DVC simultaneously learns the multivariate Gaussian posterior through the probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Farzin Soleymani , Mohammad Eslami , Tobias Elze , Bernd Bischl , Mina Rezaei

The variational quantum eigensolver has been proposed as a low-depth quantum circuit that can be employed to examine strongly correlated systems on today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. We examine details associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Luogen Xu , Joseph T. Lee , J. K. Freericks

Graph clustering, or community detection, is the task of identifying groups of closely related objects in a large network. In this paper we introduce a new community-detection framework called LambdaCC that is based on a specially weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Nate Veldt , David Gleich , Anthony Wirth

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is one of the current state-of-the-art methods for partitioning data points into the union of subspaces, with strong theoretical guarantees. However, it is not practical for large data sets as it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Maryam Abdolali , Nicolas Gillis , Mohammad Rahmati

We present clustering methods for multivariate data exploiting the underlying geometry of the graphical structure between variables. As opposed to standard approaches that assume known graph structures, we first estimate the edge structure…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-28 Sayantan Banerjee , Rehan Akbani , Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani

Spectral clustering is known as a powerful technique in unsupervised data analysis. The vast majority of approaches to spectral clustering are driven by a single modality, leaving the rich information in multi-modal representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bo Peng , Yuanwei Hu , Bo Liu , Ling Chen , Jie Lu , Zhen Fang

Clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis and machine learning, used to group similar data points together. Among various clustering methods, the Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) is one of the most widely used. MSSC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Anna Livia Croella , Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

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

Clustering is an important facet of explorative data mining and finds extensive use in several fields. In this paper, we propose an extension of the classical Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm. The proposed algorithm, abbreviated as VFC,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Srinjoy Ganguly , Digbalay Bose , Amit Konar

Gaussian mixture model is very useful in many practical problems. Nevertheless, it cannot be directly generalized to non Euclidean spaces. To overcome this problem we present a spherical Gaussian-based clustering approach for partitioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Marek Śmieja , Jacek Tabor

Many applications of quantum computing in the near term rely on variational quantum circuits (VQCs). They have been showcased as a promising model for reaching a quantum advantage in machine learning with current noisy intermediate scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jonas Landman , Slimane Thabet , Constantin Dalyac , Hela Mhiri , Elham Kashefi

The widely applied density peak clustering (DPC) algorithm makes an intuitive cluster formation assumption that cluster centers are often surrounded by data points with lower local density and far away from other data points with higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yizhang Wang , Di Wang , You Zhou , Xiaofeng Zhang , Chai Quek

We introduce a novel framework for clustering a collection of tall matrices based on their column spaces, a problem we term Subspace Clustering of Subspaces (SCoS). Unlike traditional subspace clustering methods that assume vectorized data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Paris A. Karakasis , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

Subspace clustering refers to the task of finding a multi-subspace representation that best fits a collection of points taken from a high-dimensional space. This paper introduces an algorithm inspired by sparse subspace clustering (SSC) [In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Ehsan Elhamifar , Emmanuel J. Candès

Spectral clustering is one of the most widely used techniques for extracting the underlying global structure of a data set. Compressed sensing and matrix completion have emerged as prevailing methods for efficiently recovering sparse and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-05 Blake Hunter , Thomas Strohmer

Selecting subsets of features that differentiate between two conditions is a key task in a broad range of scientific domains. In many applications, the features of interest form clusters with similar effects on the data at hand. To recover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Ram Dyuthi Sristi , Gal Mishne , Ariel Jaffe