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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

With the advancement of information retrieval, recommendation systems, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) gains widespread applications due to its higher performance and accuracy. While…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yang Xiao , Mo Sun , Ziyu Song , Bing Tian , Jie Zhang , Jie Sun , Zeke Wang

We study the problem of optimal estimation of the density cluster tree under various assumptions on the underlying density. Building up from the seminal work of Chaudhuri et al. [2014], we formulate a new notion of clustering consistency…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Daren Wang , Xinyang Lu , Alessandro Rinaldo

Neural architecture search (NAS) recently attracts much research attention because of its ability to identify better architectures than handcrafted ones. However, many NAS methods, which optimize the search process in a discrete search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Quanming Yao , Ju Xu , Wei-Wei Tu , Zhanxing Zhu

Due to the increased rate of information in the present era, local identification of similar and related data points by using neighborhood construction algorithms is highly significant for processing information in various sciences.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Shahin Pourbahrami , Leyli Mohammad Khanli , Sohrab Azimpour

In this work, we study the problem of partitioning a set of graphs into different groups such that the graphs in the same group are similar while the graphs in different groups are dissimilar. This problem was rarely studied previously,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinyu Cai , Yi Han , Wenzhong Guo , Jicong Fan

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional metric spaces is a fundamental problem with many applications. Over the past decade, proximity graph (PG)-based indexes have demonstrated superior empirical performance over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Binhong Li , Xiao Yan , Shangqi Lu

Integrating the principles of approximate computing into the design of hardware-aware deep neural networks (DNN) has led to DNNs implementations showing good output quality and highly optimized hardware parameters such as low latency or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Michal Pinos , Lukas Sekanina , Vojtech Mrazek

K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) joins are used in scientific domains for data analysis, and are building blocks of several well-known algorithms. KNN-joins find the KNN of all points in a dataset. This paper focuses on a hybrid CPU/GPU approach…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Michael Gowanlock

Kernel-based clustering algorithms have the ability to capture the non-linear structure in real world data. Among various kernel-based clustering algorithms, kernel k-means has gained popularity due to its simple iterative nature and ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Radha Chitta , Rong Jin , Timothy C. Havens , Anil K. Jain

Density-based clustering techniques are used in a wide range of data mining applications. One of their most attractive features con- sists in not making use of prior knowledge of the number of clusters that a dataset contains along with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Roberto Pirrone , Vincenzo Cannella , Sergio Monteleone , Gabriella Giordano

Approximate K Nearest Neighbor (AKNN) algorithms play a pivotal role in various AI applications, including information retrieval, computer vision, and natural language processing. Although numerous AKNN algorithms and benchmarks have been…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Xianzhi Zeng , Zhuoyan Wu , Xinjing Hu , Xuanhua Shi , Shixuan Sun , Shuhao Zhang

We develop a novel parallel decomposition strategy for unweighted, undirected graphs, based on growing disjoint connected clusters from batches of centers progressively selected from yet uncovered nodes. With respect to similar previous…

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Molecular sequence analysis is crucial for comprehending several biological processes, including protein-protein interactions, functional annotation, and disease classification. The large number of sequences and the inherently complicated…

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We present a structural clustering algorithm for large-scale datasets of small labeled graphs, utilizing a frequent subgraph sampling strategy. A set of representatives provides an intuitive description of each cluster, supports the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Till Schäfer , Petra Mutzel

We present a new clustering method in the form of a single clustering equation that is able to directly discover groupings in the data. The main proposition is that the first neighbor of each sample is all one needs to discover large chains…

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In this paper, we present an accurate and scalable approach to the face clustering task. We aim at grouping a set of faces by their potential identities. We formulate this task as a link prediction problem: a link exists between two faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Zhongdao Wang , Liang Zheng , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

Large-scale Nearest Neighbor (NN) search, though widely utilized in the similarity search field, remains challenged by the computational limitations inherent in processing large scale data. In an effort to decrease the computational expense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ashley N. Abraham , Andrew Strelzoff , Haley R. Dozier , Althea C. Henslee , Mark A. Chappell

Ashtiani et al. (NIPS 2016) introduced a semi-supervised framework for clustering (SSAC) where a learner is allowed to make same-cluster queries. More specifically, in their model, there is a query oracle that answers queries of the form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Nir Ailon , Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal

The fastest indexes for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search today are also the slowest to build: graph-based methods like HNSW and Vamana achieve state-of-the-art query performance but have large construction times due to relying on…

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