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In the Colored Clustering problem, one is asked to cluster edge-colored (hyper-)graphs whose colors represent interaction types. More specifically, the goal is to select as many edges as possible without choosing two edges that share an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Leon Kellerhals , Tomohiro Koana , Pascal Kunz , Rolf Niedermeier

Correlation clustering is a central problem in unsupervised learning, with applications spanning community detection, duplicate detection, automated labelling and many more. In the correlation clustering problem one receives as input a set…

The Correlation Clustering problem is one of the most extensively studied clustering formulations due to its wide applications in machine learning, data mining, computational biology and other areas. We consider the Correlation Clustering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jianqi Zhou , Zhongyi Zhang , Jiong Guo

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

Motivated by applications in social and biological network analysis, we introduce a new form of agnostic clustering termed~\emph{motif correlation clustering}, which aims to minimize the cost of clustering errors associated with both edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Pan Li , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

Bipartite Correlation clustering is the problem of generating a set of disjoint bi-cliques on a set of nodes while minimizing the symmetric difference to a bipartite input graph. The number or size of the output clusters is not constrained…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Nir Ailon , Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli , Edo Liberty

Correlation Clustering is a fundamental and widely-studied problem in unsupervised learning and data mining. The input is a graph and the goal is to construct a clustering minimizing the number of inter-cluster edges plus the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Shi Li , Euiwoong Lee , David Rasmussen Lolck , Alantha Newman , Mikkel Thorup , Lukas Vogl , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

Given a complete graph $G = (V, E)$ where each edge is labeled $+$ or $-$, the Correlation Clustering problem asks to partition $V$ into clusters to minimize the number of $+$edges between different clusters plus the number of $-$edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Alantha Newman

Motivated by the recent rapid growth of research for algorithms to cluster multi-layer and temporal graphs, we study extensions of the classical Cluster Editing problem. In Multi-Layer Cluster Editing we receive a set of graphs on the same…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Jiehua Chen , Hendrik Molter , Manuel Sorge , Ondrej Suchy

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

Correlation Clustering is an elegant model that captures fundamental graph cut problems such as Min $s-t$ Cut, Multiway Cut, and Multicut, extensively studied in combinatorial optimization. Here, we are given a graph with edges labeled $+$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Moses Charikar , Neha Gupta , Roy Schwartz

In correlation clustering, we are given $n$ objects together with a binary similarity score between each pair of them. The goal is to partition the objects into clusters so to minimise the disagreements with the scores. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Marco Bressan , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Andrea Paudice , Fabio Vitale

In the Correlation Clustering problem we are given $n$ nodes, and a preference for each pair of nodes indicating whether we prefer the two endpoints to be in the same cluster or not. The output is a clustering inducing the minimum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Nick Fischer , Evangelos Kipouridis , Jonas Klausen , Mikkel Thorup

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a set of objects with pairwise similarity information. Our aim is to partition these objects into clusters that match this information as closely as possible. More specifically, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jafar Jafarov

In this paper we introduce a natural generalization of the well-known problems Cluster Editing and Bicluster Editing, whose parameterized versions have been intensively investigated in the recent literature. The generalized problem, called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Maise Dantas da Silva , Fábio Protti , Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter

The NP-hard maximum value preordering problem is both a joint relaxation and a hybrid of the clique partition problem (a clustering problem) and the partial ordering problem. Toward approximate solutions and lower bounds, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jannik Irmai , Maximilian Moeller , Bjoern Andres

The BiCluster Editing problem aims at editing a given bipartite graph into a disjoint union of bicliques via a minimum number of edge deletion or addition operations. As a graph-based model for data clustering, the problem aims at a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Lucas Isenmann , Zeina Merchad

We propose a novel approach for optimizing the graph ratio-cut by modeling the binary assignments as random variables. We provide an upper bound on the expected ratio-cut, as well as an unbiased estimate of its gradient, to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ayoub Ghriss , Claire Monteleoni

Correlation clustering is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem arising in many contexts and applications that has been the subject of dozens of papers in the literature. In this problem we are given a general weighted graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Saba Ahmadi , Sainyam Galhotra , Samir Khuller , Barna Saha , Roy Schwartz

We consider the problem of correlation clustering on graphs with constraints on both the cluster sizes and the positive and negative weights of edges. Our contributions are twofold: First, we introduce the problem of correlation clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic