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We introduce TeraHAC, a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) algorithm which scales to trillion-edge graphs. Our algorithm is based on a new approach to computing $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate HAC, which is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Laxman Dhulipala , Jason Lee , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

Networks (or graphs) appear as dominant structures in diverse domains, including sociology, biology, neuroscience and computer science. In most of the aforementioned cases graphs are directed - in the sense that there is directionality on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Sampling technique has become one of the recent research focuses in the graph-related fields. Most of the existing graph sampling algorithms tend to sample the high degree or low degree nodes in the complex networks because of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Junpeng Zhu , Hui Li , Mei Chen , Zhenyu Dai , Ming Zhu

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

Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu

In the correlation clustering problem for complete signed graphs, the input is a complete signed graph with edges weighted as $+1$ (denote recommendation to put this pair in the same cluster) or $-1$ (recommending to put this pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ali Shakiba

Modern graph embedding procedures can efficiently process graphs with millions of nodes. In this paper, we propose GEMSEC -- a graph embedding algorithm which learns a clustering of the nodes simultaneously with computing their embedding.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Benedek Rozemberczki , Ryan Davies , Rik Sarkar , Charles Sutton

We consider the problem of spectral clustering under group fairness constraints, where samples from each sensitive group are approximately proportionally represented in each cluster. Traditional fair spectral clustering (FSC) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xiang Zhang , Qiao Wang

A relevant, sometimes overlooked, quality criterion for communities in graphs is that they should be well-connected in addition to being edge-dense. Prior work has shown that leading community detection methods can produce poorly-connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 The-Anh Vu-Le , Minhyuk Park , Ian Chen , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

Graph-based clustering methods have demonstrated the effectiveness in various applications. Generally, existing graph-based clustering methods first construct a graph to represent the input data and then partition it to generate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong

Graph clustering is a challenging pattern recognition problem whose goal is to identify vertex partitions with high intra-group connectivity. This paper investigates a bi-objective problem that maximizes the number of intra-cluster edges of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Camila P. S. Tautenhain , Mariá C. V. Nascimento

Deep graph clustering, which aims to group nodes into disjoint clusters by neural networks in an unsupervised manner, has attracted great attention in recent years. Although the performance has been largely improved, the excellent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yue Liu , Ke Liang , Jun Xia , Xihong Yang , Sihang Zhou , Meng Liu , Xinwang Liu , Stan Z. Li

Graph clustering discovers groups or communities within networks. Deep learning methods such as autoencoders (AE) extract effective clustering and downstream representations but cannot incorporate rich structural information. While Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Gayan K. Kulatilleke , Marius Portmann , Shekhar S. Chandra

We propose a Classification Via Clustering (CVC) algorithm which enables existing clustering methods to be efficiently employed in classification problems. In CVC, training and test data are co-clustered and class-cluster distributions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Arif Mahmood , Ajmal S. Mian

Spectral algorithms are graph partitioning algorithms that partition a node set of a graph into groups by using a spectral embedding map. Clustering techniques based on the algorithms are referred to as spectral clustering and are widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Tomohiko Mizutani

We propose a novel perspective on varied-density clustering for high-dimensional data by framing it as a label propagation process in neighborhood graphs that adapt to local density variations. Our method formally connects density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ninh Pham , Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs

The present paper is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. While the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs, we present an effective generalization, which we call higher-order spectral clustering. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Andrei Bobu , Maximilien Dreveton

Clustering points in a vector space or nodes in a graph is a ubiquitous primitive in statistical data analysis, and it is commonly used for exploratory data analysis. In practice, it is often of interest to "refine" or "improve" a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 K. Fountoulakis , M. Liu , D. F. Gleich , M. W. Mahoney

The rapid growth of graph data creates significant scalability challenges as most graph algorithms scale quadratically with size. To mitigate these issues, Graph Condensation (GC) methods have been proposed to learn a small graph from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Shengbo Gong , Mohammad Hashemi , Juntong Ni , Carl Yang , Wei Jin

We study the widely used hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) algorithm on edge-weighted graphs. We define an algorithmic framework for hierarchical agglomerative graph clustering that provides the first efficient $\tilde{O}(m)$ time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Laxman Dhulipala , David Eisenstat , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Jessica Shi