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Spectral clustering became a popular choice for data clustering for its ability of uncovering clusters of different shapes. However, it is not always preferable over other clustering methods due to its computational demands. One of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mashaan Alshammari , John Stavrakakis , Masahiro Takatsuka

Spectral clustering (SC) is a popular clustering technique to find strongly connected communities on a graph. SC can be used in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to implement pooling operations that aggregate nodes belonging to the same cluster.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Daniele Grattarola , Cesare Alippi

The present paper is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. While the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs, we present an effective generalization, which we call higher-order spectral clustering. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Andrei Bobu , Maximilien Dreveton

We consider spectral clustering algorithms for community detection under a general bipartite stochastic block model (SBM). A modern spectral clustering algorithm consists of three steps: (1) regularization of an appropriate adjacency or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhixin Zhou , Arash A. Amini

Approximate Spectral Clustering (ASC) is a popular and successful heuristic for partitioning the nodes of a graph $G$ into clusters for which the ratio of outside connections compared to the volume (sum of degrees) is small. ASC consists of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Pavel Kolev , Kurt Mehlhorn

Clustering, as an unsupervised technique, plays a pivotal role in various data analysis applications. Among clustering algorithms, Spectral Clustering on Euclidean Spaces has been extensively studied. However, with the rapid evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Sagar Ghosh , Swagatam Das

We present a new algorithm for spectral clustering based on a column-pivoted QR factorization that may be directly used for cluster assignment or to provide an initial guess for k-means. Our algorithm is simple to implement, direct, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Anil Damle , Victor Minden , Lexing Ying

Consistency is a key property of all statistical procedures analyzing randomly sampled data. Surprisingly, despite decades of work, little is known about consistency of most clustering algorithms. In this paper we investigate consistency of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Ulrike von Luxburg , Mikhail Belkin , Olivier Bousquet

Modern algorithms for de novo prediction of protein structures typically output multiple full-length models (decoys) rather than a single solution. Subsequent clustering of such decoys is used both to gauge the success of the modelling and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-12 Dmytro Guzenko , Sergei V. Strelkov

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular algorithms to group high dimensional data. It is easy to implement and computationally efficient. Despite its popularity and successful applications, its theoretical properties have not been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Matthias Löffler , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

Spectral clustering algorithms typically require a priori selection of input parameters such as the number of clusters, a scaling parameter for the affinity measure, or ranges of these values for parameter tuning. Despite efforts for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Milad Afzalan , Farrokh Jazizadeh

Over the last decade, a large variety of clustering algorithms have been developed to detect coregulatory relationships among genes from microarray gene expression data. Model based clustering approaches have emerged as statistically well…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-01-15 Anagha Joshi , Yves Van de Peer , Tom Michoel

Clustering data objects into homogeneous groups is one of the most important tasks in data mining. Spectral clustering is arguably one of the most important algorithms for clustering, as it is appealing for its theoretical soundness and is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Dylan Soemitro , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

The research on complex networks has achieved significant progress in revealing the mesoscopic features of networks. Community detection is an important aspect of understanding real-world complex systems. We present in this paper a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yanhui Zhu , Fang Hu , Lei Hsin Kuo , Jia liu

We consider the problem of spectral clustering under group fairness constraints, where samples from each sensitive group are approximately proportionally represented in each cluster. Traditional fair spectral clustering (FSC) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xiang Zhang , Qiao Wang

In this paper we present a novel iterative multiphase clustering technique for efficiently clustering high dimensional data points. For this purpose we implement clustering feature (CF) tree on a real data set and a Gaussian density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Chandrima Sarkar , Atanu Roy

Mixture model-based frameworks are very popular for statistical inference in clustering. While convenient for producing probabilistic estimates of cluster assignments and uncertainty, they are prone to misspecification, which can lead to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Yu Zheng , Leo L. Duan , Arkaprava Roy

For community detection problem, spectral clustering is a widely used method for detecting clusters in networks. In this paper, we propose an improved spectral clustering (ISC) approach under the degree corrected stochastic block model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-13 Huan Qing , Jingli Wang

We propose an effective subspace selection scheme as a post-processing step to improve results obtained by sparse subspace clustering (SSC). Our method starts by the computation of stable subspaces using a novel random sampling scheme. Thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Duc-Son Pham , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Svetha Venkatesh

Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu