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Correlation clustering provides a method for separating the vertices of a signed graph into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance. The main goal in this type of clustering is to minimize the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Leila Parsaei-Majd

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

Max-k-Cut and correlation clustering are fundamental graph partitioning problems. For a graph with G=(V,E) with n vertices, the methods with the best approximation guarantees for Max-k-Cut and the Max-Agree variant of correlation clustering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Nimita Shinde , Vishnu Narayanan , James Saunderson

We present a linear time algorithm for the minimum linear arrangement problem on proper interval graphs. The obtained ordering is a 4-approximation for general interval graphs

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ilya Safro

Graph matching---aligning a pair of graphs to minimize their edge disagreements---has received wide-spread attention from both theoretical and applied communities over the past several decades, including combinatorics, computer vision, and…

Hierarchical clustering is a stronger extension of one of today's most influential unsupervised learning methods: clustering. The goal of this method is to create a hierarchy of clusters, thus constructing cluster evolutionary history and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-14 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Marina Knittel

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis where the goal is to detect sets of nodes that are well-connected to each other but sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. We present faster approximation algorithms for an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Vedangi Bengali , Nate Veldt

We study the approximability of an existing framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, which is closely related to chromatic correlation clustering and is motivated by machine learning and data mining applications where the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Nate Veldt

Correlation Clustering (CC) is a foundational problem in unsupervised learning that models binary similarity relations using labeled graphs. While classical CC has been widely studied, many real-world applications involve more nuanced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chenglin Fan , Dahoon Lee , Euiwoong Lee

We present a new approximation algorithm for the minimum 2-edge-connected spanning subgraph problem. Its approximation ratio is $\frac{4}{3}$, which matches the current best ratio. The approximation ratio of the algorithm is $\frac{6}{5}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Ali Çivril

This paper considers correlation clustering on unweighted complete graphs. We give a combinatorial algorithm that returns a single clustering solution that is simultaneously $O(1)$-approximate for all $\ell_p$-norms of the disagreement…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Sami Davies , Benjamin Moseley , Heather Newman

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Nikos Parotsidis , Jakub Tarnawski

We provide a randomized linear time approximation scheme for a generic problem about clustering of binary vectors subject to additional constrains. The new constrained clustering problem encompasses a number of problems and by solving it,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh

We consider inapproximability of the correlation clustering problem defined as follows: Given a graph $G = (V,E)$ where each edge is labeled either "+" (similar) or "-" (dissimilar), correlation clustering seeks to partition the vertices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-03-23 Jinsong Tan

Graphs provide an efficient tool for object representation in various computer vision applications. Once graph-based representations are constructed, an important question is how to compare graphs. This problem is often formulated as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-04-30 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

This work initiates the study of memory-query tradeoffs for graph problems, with a focus on correlation clustering. Correlation clustering asks for a partition of the vertices that minimizes disagreements: non-edges inside clusters plus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sumegha Garg , Songhua He , Periklis A. Papakonstantinou

In this paper, we reduce the complexity of approximating the correlation clustering problem from $O(m\times\left( 2+ \alpha (G) \right)+n)$ to $O(m+n)$ for any given value of $\varepsilon$ for a complete signed graph with $n$ vertices and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ali Shakiba

We study the problem of optimal traffic prediction and monitoring in large-scale networks. Our goal is to determine which subset of K links to monitor in order to "best" predict the traffic on the remaining links in the network. We consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Michael Kallitsis , Stilian Stoev , George Michailidis

Consider a problem where 4k given vectors need to be partitioned into k clusters of four vectors each. A cluster of four vectors is called a quad, and the cost of a quad is the sum of the component-wise maxima of the four vectors in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Annette M. C. Ficker , Thomas Erlebach , Matus Mihalak , Frits C. R. Spieksma

Hypergraph matching has recently become a popular approach for solving correspondence problems in computer vision as it allows to integrate higher-order geometric information. Hypergraph matching can be formulated as a third-order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Quynh Nguyen , Francesco Tudisco , Antoine Gautier , Matthias Hein