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Truss structures at macro-scale are common in a number of engineering applications and are now being increasingly used at the micro-scale to construct metamaterials. In analyzing the properties of a given truss structure, it is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Sean Fancher , Prashant Purohit , Eleni Katifori

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

Interacting, self-propelled particles such as epithelial cells can dynamically self-organize into complex multicellular patterns, which are challenging to classify without a priori information. Classically, different phases and phase…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-19 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Ian Y. Wong

Because of the significant increase in size and complexity of the networks, the distributed computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of graph matrices has become very challenging and yet it remains as important as before. In this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Philippe Jacquet , Jithin Sreedharan

Cluster analysis plays a very important role in data analysis. In these years, cluster ensemble, as a cluster analysis tool, has drawn much attention for its robustness, stability, and accuracy. Many efforts have been done to combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Xuelong Li , Quanmao Lu , Yongsheng Dong , Dacheng Tao

We describe a multispeckle dynamic light scattering technique capable of resolving the motion of scattering sites in cases that this motion changes systematically with time. The method is based on the visibility of the speckle pattern…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Bandyopadhyay , A. S. Gittings , S. S. Suh , P. K. Dixon , D. J. Durian

Large graphs commonly appear in social networks, knowledge graphs, recommender systems, life sciences, and decision making problems. Summarizing large graphs by their high level properties is helpful in solving problems in these settings.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-01 Elise van der Pol , Ian Gemp , Yoram Bachrach , Richard Everett

In manifold learning, algorithms based on graph Laplacians constructed from data have received considerable attention both in practical applications and theoretical analysis. In particular, the convergence of graph Laplacians obtained from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-05-23 Xueyuan Zhou , Mikhail Belkin

We propose Laplacian In-context Spectral Analysis (LISA), a method for inference-time adaptation of Laplacian-based time-series models using only an observed prefix. LISA combines delay-coordinate embeddings and Laplacian spectral learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Julio Candanedo

Spectral clustering and diffusion maps are celebrated dimensionality reduction algorithms built on eigen-elements related to the diffusive structure of the data. The core of these procedures is the approximation of a Laplacian through a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-15 Loucas Pillaud-Vivien , Francis Bach

Most methods proposed to uncover communities in complex networks rely on their structural properties. Here we introduce the stability of a network partition, a measure of its quality defined in terms of the statistical properties of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-18 R. Lambiotte , J. -C. Delvenne , M. Barahona

The accurate computation of eigenfunctions corresponding to tightly clustered Laplacian eigenvalues remains an extremely difficult problem. In this paper, using the shape difference quotient of eigenvalues, we propose a stable computation…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Ryoki Endo , Xuefeng Liu

Graph Laplacians as well as related spectral inequalities and (co-)homology provide a foray into discrete analogues of Riemannian manifolds, providing a rich interplay between combinatorics, geometry and theoretical physics. We apply some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Yang-Hui He , Shing-Tung Yau

Spectral Method is a commonly used scheme to cluster data points lying close to Union of Subspaces by first constructing a Random Geometry Graph, called Subspace Clustering. This paper establishes a theory to analyze this method. Based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

Choosing a meaningful subset of features from high-dimensional observations in unsupervised settings can greatly enhance the accuracy of downstream analysis, such as clustering or dimensionality reduction, and provide valuable insights into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Daniel Segal , Ofir Lindenbaum , Ariel Jaffe

This paper presents a diffusion based probabilistic interpretation of spectral clustering and dimensionality reduction algorithms that use the eigenvectors of the normalized graph Laplacian. Given the pairwise adjacency matrix of all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Boaz Nadler , Stephane Lafon , Ronald R. Coifman , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

This paper shows that graph spectral embedding using the random walk Laplacian produces vector representations which are completely corrected for node degree. Under a generalised random dot product graph, the embedding provides uniformly…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-05 Alexander Modell , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

In this paper we present a new dynamical systems algorithm for clustering in hyperspectral images. The main idea of the algorithm is that data points are \`pushed\' in the direction of increasing density and groups of pixels that end up in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 William F. Basener , Alexey Castrodad , David Messinger , Jennifer Mahle , Paul Prue

Spectral clustering approaches have led to well-accepted algorithms for finding accurate clusters in a given dataset. However, their application to large-scale datasets has been hindered by computational complexity of eigenvalue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Shahzad Bhatti , Carolyn Beck , Angelia Nedic

The eigenfunctions of the Laplacian are a natural basis of functions for many tasks in computational mathematics. On the circle and sphere, the eigenfunctions are given by complex periodic exponentials and spherical harmonics, respectively,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Paul G. Beckman , Samuel F. Potter , Michael O'Neil