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Higher-order connectivity patterns such as small induced sub-graphs called graphlets (network motifs) are vital to understand the important components (modules/functional units) governing the configuration and behavior of complex networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aldo G. Carranza , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Eunyee Koh

Spectral clustering has become one of the most widely used clustering techniques when the structure of the individual clusters is non-convex or highly anisotropic. Yet, despite its immense popularity, there exists fairly little theory about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-16 Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

The applicability of agglomerative clustering, for inferring both hierarchical and flat clustering, is limited by its scalability. Existing scalable hierarchical clustering methods sacrifice quality for speed and often lead to over-merging…

Higher-order graph clustering aims to partition the graph using frequently occurring subgraphs. Motif conductance is one of the most promising higher-order graph clustering models due to its strong interpretability. However, existing motif…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Longlong Lin , Tao Jia , Zeli Wang , Jin Zhao , Rong-Hua Li

Signed networks, characterized by edges labeled as either positive or negative, offer nuanced insights into interaction dynamics beyond the capabilities of unsigned graphs. Central to this is the task of identifying the maximum balanced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jingbang Chen , Qiuyang Mang , Hangrui Zhou , Richard Peng , Yu Gao , Chenhao Ma

Extracting cohesive subgraphs from complex networks is a fundamental task in graph analytics and is essential for understanding biological, social, and web graphs. The edge-based $\gamma$-quasi-clique model offers a flexible alternative by…

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Spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms are sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data. In particular if the data has proximal and unbalanced clusters these algorithms can lead to poor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-22 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama

Spectral clustering is a celebrated algorithm that partitions objects based on pairwise similarity information. While this approach has been successfully applied to a variety of domains, it comes with limitations. The reason is that there…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Kwangjun Ahn , Kangwook Lee , Changho Suh

According to the structural balance theory, a signed graph is considered structurally balanced when it can be partitioned into a number of modules such that positive and negative edges are respectively located inside and between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Nejat Arinik , Vincent Labatut , Rosa Figueiredo

Graph clustering aims to partition nodes into distinct clusters based on their similarity, thereby revealing relationships among nodes. Nevertheless, most existing methods do not fully utilize these edge weights. Leveraging edge weights in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haobing Liu , Yinuo Zhang , Tingting Wang , Ruobing Jiang , Yanwei Yu

Signed graphs, which are characterized by both positive and negative edge weights, have recently attracted significant attention in the field of graph signal processing (GSP). Existing works on signed graph learning typically assume that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Rong Ye , Xue-Qin Jiang , Hui Feng , Jian Wang , Runhe Qiu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) based methods have achieved impressive performance on node clustering task. However, they are designed on the homophilic assumption of graph and clustering on heterophilic graph is overlooked. Due to the lack of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang

Conductance-based graph clustering has been recognized as a fundamental operator in numerous graph analysis applications. Despite the significant success of conductance-based graph clustering, existing algorithms are either hard to obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Longlong Lin , Rong-Hua Li , Tao Jia

Graph based clustering is one of the major clustering methods. Most of it work in three separate steps: similarity graph construction, clustering label relaxing and label discretization with k-means. Such common practice has three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Yudong Han , Lei Zhu , Zhiyong Cheng , Jingjing Li , Xiaobai Liu

Clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis, and spectral clustering has been recognized as a promising approach to it. Given a graph describing the relationship between data, spectral clustering explores the underlying cluster…

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

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

The unsupervised learning of community structure, in particular the partitioning vertices into clusters or communities, is a canonical and well-studied problem in exploratory graph analysis. However, like most graph analyses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Benjamin W. Priest , Alec Dunton , Geoffrey Sanders

Signed graphs serve as a primary tool for modelling social networks. They can represent relationships between individuals (i.e., nodes) with the use of signed edges. Finding communities in a signed graph is of great importance in many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Ehsan Zahedinejad , Daniel Crawford , Clemens Adolphs , Jaspreet S. Oberoi

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular methods for community detection in graphs. A key step in spectral clustering algorithms is the eigen decomposition of the $n{\times}n$ graph Laplacian matrix to extract its $k$ leading…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-10 Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Obtaining scalable algorithms for hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) is of significant interest due to the massive size of real-world datasets. At the same time, efficiently parallelizing HAC is difficult due to the seemingly…

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