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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

The classic pivot based clustering algorithm of Ailon, Charikar and Chawla [JACM'08] is factor 3, but all concrete examples showing that it is no better than 3 are based on some very good clusters, e.g., a complete graph minus a matching.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 David Rasmussen Lolck , Mikkel Thorup , Shuyi Yan

We present an efficient algorithm for the min-max correlation clustering problem. The input is a complete graph where edges are labeled as either positive $(+)$ or negative $(-)$, and the objective is to find a clustering that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nairen Cao , Steven Roche , Hsin-Hao Su

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

Correlation clustering is a widely studied framework for clustering based on pairwise similarity and dissimilarity scores, but its best approximation algorithms rely on impractical linear programming relaxations. We present faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nate Veldt

Given a similarity graph between items, correlation clustering (CC) groups similar items together and dissimilar ones apart. One of the most popular CC algorithms is KwikCluster: an algorithm that serially clusters neighborhoods of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Xinghao Pan , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Samet Oymak , Benjamin Recht , Kannan Ramchandran , Michael I. Jordan

Several clustering frameworks with interactive (semi-supervised) queries have been studied in the past. Recently, clustering with same-cluster queries has become popular. An algorithm in this setting has access to an oracle with full…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Barna Saha , Sanjay Subramanian

Given a graph with positive and negative edge labels, the correlation clustering problem aims to cluster the nodes so to minimize the total number of between-cluster positive and within-cluster negative edges. This problem has many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Konstantin Makarychev , Slobodan Mitrović

We study the classic correlation clustering in the dynamic setting. Given $n$ objects and a complete labeling of the object-pairs as either similar or dissimilar, the goal is to partition the objects into arbitrarily many clusters while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Soheil Behnezhad , Moses Charikar , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Alma Ghafari , Weiyun Ma

We establish Multilayer Correlation Clustering, a novel generalization of Correlation Clustering to the multilayer setting. In this model, we are given a series of inputs of Correlation Clustering (called layers) over the common set $V$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Atsushi Miyauchi , Florian Adriaens , Francesco Bonchi , Nikolaj Tatti

The study of approximate matching in the Massively Parallel Computations (MPC) model has recently seen a burst of breakthroughs. Despite this progress, however, we still have a far more limited understanding of maximal matching which is one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Soheil Behnezhad , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David G. Harris

We consider a generalized version of the correlation clustering problem, defined as follows. Given a complete graph $G$ whose edges are labeled with $+$ or $-$, we wish to partition the graph into clusters while trying to avoid errors: $+$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

Grouping together similar elements in datasets is a common task in data mining and machine learning. In this paper, we study streaming algorithms for correlation clustering, where each pair of elements is labeled either similar or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Mélanie Cambus , Fabian Kuhn , Etna Lindy , Shreyas Pai , Jara Uitto

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…

Clustering is a fundamental tool for analyzing large data sets. A rich body of work has been devoted to designing data-stream algorithms for the relevant optimization problems such as $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. Such algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Kook Jin Ahn , Graham Cormode , Sudipto Guha , Andrew McGregor , Anthony Wirth

Correlation clustering is a technique for aggregating data based on qualitative information about which pairs of objects are labeled 'similar' or 'dissimilar.' Because the optimization problem is NP-hard, much of the previous literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth , David F. Gleich

Chromatic Correlation Clustering (CCC) generalizes Correlation Clustering by assigning multiple categorical relationships (colors) to edges and imposing chromatic constraints on the clusters. Unlike traditional Correlation Clustering, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dahoon Lee , Chenglin Fan , Euiwoong Lee

We present new results for LambdaCC and MotifCC, two recently introduced variants of the well-studied correlation clustering problem. Both variants are motivated by applications to network analysis and community detection, and have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-26 David F. Gleich , Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth

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

Correlation Clustering is a powerful graph partitioning model that aims to cluster items based on the notion of similarity between items. An instance of the Correlation Clustering problem consists of a graph $G$ (not necessarily complete)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Timothy Zhou