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Spectral Clustering is one of the most traditional methods to solve segmentation problems. Based on Normalized Cuts, it aims at partitioning an image using an objective function defined by a graph. Despite their mathematical attractiveness,…

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We take an image science perspective on the problem of determining brain network connectivity given functional activity. But adapting the concept of image resolution to this problem, we provide a new perspective on network partitioning for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-14 Keith Dillon , Yu-Ping Wang

The clustering of data into physically meaningful subsets often requires assumptions regarding the number, size, or shape of the subgroups. Here, we present a new method, simultaneous coherent structure coloring (sCSC), which accomplishes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-26 Brooke E. Husic , Kristy L. Schlueter-Kuck , John O. Dabiri

High-density DNA arrays, used to monitor gene expression at a genomic scale, have produced vast amounts of information which require the development of efficient computational methods to analyze them. The important first step is to extract…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Getz , E. Levine , E. Domany , M. Q. Zhang

Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) is a state-of-the-art method for clustering high-dimensional data points lying in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. However, while $\ell_1$ optimization-based SSC algorithms suffer from high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Yanxi Chen , Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

Beyond existing multi-view clustering, this paper studies a more realistic clustering scenario, referred to as incomplete multi-view clustering, where a number of data instances are missing in certain views. To tackle this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hao Wang , Linlin Zong , Bing Liu , Yan Yang , Wei Zhou

Clustering under pairwise constraints is an important knowledge discovery tool that enables the learning of appropriate kernels or distance metrics to improve clustering performance. These pairwise constraints, which come in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Benedikt Boecking , Vincent Jeanselme , Artur Dubrawski

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

Clustering multi-dimensional points is a fundamental task in many fields, and density-based clustering supports many applications as it can discover clusters of arbitrary shapes. This paper addresses the problem of Density-Peaks Clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Daichi Amagata , Takahiro Hara

Spectral clustering is a popular and effective algorithm designed to find $k$ clusters in a graph $G$. In the classical spectral clustering algorithm, the vertices of $G$ are embedded into $\mathbb{R}^k$ using $k$ eigenvectors of the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peter Macgregor

Spectral clustering views the similarity matrix as a weighted graph, and partitions the data by minimizing a graph-cut loss. Since it minimizes the across-cluster similarity, there is no need to model the distribution within each cluster.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-14 Leo L. Duan , Arkaprava Roy

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

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…

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Spectral clustering and cloud computing is emerging branch of computer science or related discipline. It overcome the shortcomings of some traditional clustering algorithm and guarantee the convergence to the optimal solution, thus have to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Yajun Cui , Yang Zhao , Kafei Xiao , Chenglong Zhang , Lei Wang

Spectral clustering is a widely studied problem, yet its complexity is prohibitive for dynamic graphs of even modest size. We claim that it is possible to reuse information of past cluster assignments to expedite computation. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-13 Lionel Martin , Andreas Loukas , Pierre Vandergheynst

In today's data-driven digital era, the amount as well as complexity, such as multi-view, non-Euclidean, and multi-relational, of the collected data are growing exponentially or even faster. Clustering, which unsupervisely extracts valid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Zhao Kang , Xuanting Xie , Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan

We present Topological Point Cloud Clustering (TPCC), a new method to cluster points in an arbitrary point cloud based on their contribution to global topological features. TPCC synthesizes desirable features from spectral clustering and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning, but most existing methods heavily rely on hyperparameters such as the number of clusters or other sensitive settings, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Lijun Zhang , Suyuan Liu , Siwei Wang , Shengju Yu , Xueling Zhu , Miaomiao Li , Xinwang Liu

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is an elegant approach for unsupervised segmentation if the data points of each cluster are located in linear subspaces. This model applies, for instance, in motion segmentation if some restrictions on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-12 Hanno Ackermann , Michael Ying Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn