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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

We introduce a novel end-to-end approach for learning to cluster in the absence of labeled examples. Our clustering objective is based on optimizing normalized cuts, a criterion which measures both intra-cluster similarity as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

The problem of multimodal clustering arises whenever the data are gathered with several physically different sensors. Observations from different modalities are not necessarily aligned in the sense there there is no obvious way to associate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-10 Vasil Khalidov , Florence Forbes , Radu Horaud

Clustering is a popular unsupervised learning tool often used to discover groups within a larger population such as customer segments, or patient subtypes. However, despite its use as a tool for subgroup discovery and description - few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Connor Lawless , Jayant Kalagnanam , Lam M. Nguyen , Dzung Phan , Chandra Reddy

Correlation Clustering (CC) is a fundamental unsupervised learning primitive whose strongest LP-based approximation guarantees require $\Theta(n^3)$ triangle inequality constraints and are prohibitive at scale. We initiate the study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

Many real-world network are multilayer, with nontrivial correlations across layers. Here we show that these correlations amplify geometry in networks. We focus on mutual clustering--a measure of the amount of triangles that are present in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-24 Jasper van der Kolk , Dmitri Krioukov , Marián Boguñá , M. Ángeles Serrano

Clustering is a standard approach for achieving efficient and scalable performance in wireless sensor networks. Traditionally, clustering algorithms aim at generating a number of disjoint clusters that satisfy some criteria. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Moustafa Youssef , Adel Youssef , Mohamed Younis

The primary goal in cluster analysis is to discover natural groupings of objects. The field of cluster analysis is crowded with diverse methods that make special assumptions about data and address different scientific aims. Despite its…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-07 Gary K. Chen , Eric Chi , John Ranola , Kenneth Lange

A novel and intuitive nearest neighbours based clustering algorithm is introduced, in which a cluster is defined in terms of an equilibrium condition which balances its size and cohesiveness. The formulation of the equilibrium condition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 David P. Hofmeyr

In this paper we propose a unified framework to simultaneously discover the number of clusters and group the data points into them using subspace clustering. Real data distributed in a high-dimensional space can be disentangled into a union…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Jie Liang , Jufeng Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Paul L. Rosin , Liang Wang

Hierarchical clustering is a popular unsupervised data analysis method. For many real-world applications, we would like to exploit prior information about the data that imposes constraints on the clustering hierarchy, and is not captured by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh , Moses Charikar

In this paper, we propose a simple algorithm to cluster nonnegative data lying in disjoint subspaces. We analyze its performance in relation to a certain measure of correlation between said subspaces. We use our clustering algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-04 C. Strohmeier , D. Needell

Convex clustering is a recent stable alternative to hierarchical clustering. It formulates the recovery of progressively coalescing clusters as a regularized convex problem. While convex clustering was originally designed for handling…

Applications · Statistics 2019-12-12 Claire Donnat , Susan Holmes

This paper proposes a new algorithm for simultaneous graph matching and clustering. For the first time in the literature, these two problems are solved jointly and synergetically without relying on any training data, which brings advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maximilian Krahn , Florian Bernard , Vladislav Golyanik

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in data analytics and machine learning. In many situations, different clusterings of the same data set become relevant. For example, different algorithms for the same clustering task may return…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Steffen Borgwardt , Charles Viss

We provide a randomized linear time approximation scheme for a generic problem about clustering of binary vectors subject to additional constrains. The new constrained clustering problem encompasses a number of problems and by solving it,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh

We study the clustering problem for mixtures of bounded covariance distributions, under a fine-grained separation assumption. Specifically, given samples from a $k$-component mixture distribution $D = \sum_{i =1}^k w_i P_i$, where each $w_i…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Jasper C. H. Lee , Thanasis Pittas

We study supervised learning problems using clustering constraints to impose structure on either features or samples, seeking to help both prediction and interpretation. The problem of clustering features arises naturally in text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Vincent Roulet , Fajwel Fogel , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach

The objective of clustering is to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify geometrical structures which might reside there, without assuming any prior knowledge on the characteristics of the data. The problem can be seen as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Luis-Evaristo Caraballo , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher

Distributed processing over networks relies on in-network processing and cooperation among neighboring agents. Cooperation is beneficial when agents share a common objective. However, in many applications agents may belong to different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Xiaochuan Zhao , Ali H. Sayed