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We consider the classic Correlation Clustering problem: Given a complete graph where edges are labelled either $+$ or $-$, the goal is to find a partition of the vertices that minimizes the number of the \pedges across parts plus the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Shi Li , Alantha Newman

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 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

Correlation clustering is a well-studied problem, first proposed by Bansal, Blum, and Chawla [Mach. Learn. '04]. The input is an unweighted, undirected graph. The problem is to cluster the vertices so as to minimize the number of edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Shi Li , David Rasmussen Lolck , Alantha Newman , Mikkel Thorup , Lukas Vogl , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

We give new rounding schemes for the standard linear programming relaxation of the correlation clustering problem, achieving approximation factors almost matching the integrality gaps: - For complete graphs our appoximation is $2.06 -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Shuchi Chawla , Konstantin Makarychev , Tselil Schramm , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

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 study parallel algorithms for the correlation clustering problem, where every pair of two different entities is labeled with similar or dissimilar. The goal is to partition the entities into clusters to minimize the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Nairen Cao , Shang-En Huang , Hsin-Hao Su

Correlation Clustering is a classic clustering objective arising in numerous machine learning and data mining applications. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, the goal is to partition the vertex set into clusters so as to minimize the number of edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David Rasmussen Lolck , Marcin Pilipczuk , Mikkel Thorup , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

Chromatic Correlation Clustering (CCC) extends Correlation Clustering by assigning semantic colors to edges and requiring each cluster to receive a single color label. Unlike standard CC, whose LP relaxation has integrality gap 2 on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

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

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

We consider the classic correlation clustering problem in the hierarchical setting. Given a complete graph $G=(V,E)$ and $\ell$ layers of input information, where the input of each layer consists of a nonnegative weight and a labeling of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Hyung-Chan An , Mong-Jen Kao , Changyeol Lee , Mu-Ting Lee

We revisit the simultaneous approximation model for the correlation clustering problem introduced by Davies, Moseley, and Newman[DMN24]. The objective is to find a clustering that minimizes given norms of the disagreement vector over all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Nairen Cao , Shi Li , Jia Ye

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

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 study parallel algorithms for correlation clustering. Each pair among $n$ objects is labeled as either "similar" or "dissimilar". The goal is to partition the objects into arbitrarily many clusters while minimizing the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Soheil Behnezhad , Moses Charikar , Weiyun Ma , Li-Yang Tan

We study the approximability of an existing framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, which is closely related to chromatic correlation clustering and is motivated by machine learning and data mining applications where the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Nate Veldt

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 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

We present combinatorial approximation algorithms for the weighted correlation clustering problem. In this problem, we have a set of vertices and two weight values for each pair of vertices, denoting their difference and similarity. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mojtaba Ostovari , Alireza Zarei
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