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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

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

Recently, Czumaj et.al. (arXiv 2017) presented a parallel (almost) $2$-approximation algorithm for the maximum matching problem in only $O({(\log\log{n})^2})$ rounds of the massive parallel computation (MPC) framework, when the memory per…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Sepehr Assadi

Clustering is a fundamental task in machine learning and data analysis, but it frequently fails to provide fair representation for various marginalized communities defined by multiple protected attributes -- a shortcoming often caused by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Diptarka Chakraborty , Kushagra Chatterjee , Debarati Das , Tien-Long Nguyen

We initiate the study of the following general clustering problem. We seek to partition a given set $P$ of data points into $k$ clusters by finding a set $X$ of $k$ centers and assigning each data point to one of the centers. The cost of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Martin G. Herold , Evangelos Kipouridis , Joachim Spoerhase

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 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

Clustering with capacity constraints is a fundamental problem that attracted significant attention throughout the years. In this paper, we give the first FPT constant-factor approximation algorithm for the problem of clustering points in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , William Lochet , Saket Saurabh

We design new parallel algorithms for clustering in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. These algorithms run in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, and are fully scalable, meaning that the local memory in each machine may be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Artur Czumaj , Guichen Gao , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Pavel Veselý

In Constrained Correlation Clustering, the goal is to cluster a complete signed graph in a way that minimizes the number of negative edges inside clusters plus the number of positive edges between clusters, while respecting hard constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nate Veldt

We present massively parallel (MPC) algorithms and hardness of approximation results for computing Single-Linkage Clustering of $n$ input $d$-dimensional vectors under Hamming, $\ell_1, \ell_2$ and $\ell_\infty$ distances. All our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Grigory Yaroslavtsev , Adithya Vadapalli

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

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

Clustering multi-dimensional points is a fundamental task in many fields, and density-based clustering supports many applications as it can discover clusters of arbitrary shapes. This paper addresses the problem of Density-Peaks Clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Daichi Amagata , Takahiro Hara

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

Clustering is a basic task in data analysis and machine learning, and the optimization of clustering objectives are well-studied optimization problems; amongst these, the $k$-Means objective is arguably the most well known. Given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Moses Charikar , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Ruiquan Gao , Fabrizio Grandoni , Euiwoong Lee , Ernest van Wijland

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

In this work, we study diversity-aware clustering problems where the data points are associated with multiple attributes resulting in intersecting groups. A clustering solution needs to ensure that the number of chosen cluster centers from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Suhas Thejaswi , Ameet Gadekar , Bruno Ordozgoiti , Aristides Gionis

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

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