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We present clustering methods for multivariate data exploiting the underlying geometry of the graphical structure between variables. As opposed to standard approaches that assume known graph structures, we first estimate the edge structure…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-28 Sayantan Banerjee , Rehan Akbani , Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani

Graph clustering, which aims to divide a graph into several homogeneous groups, is a critical area of study with applications that span various fields such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, and image segmentation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-15 Timothé Watteau , Aubin Bonnefoy , Simon Illouz-Laurent , Joaquim Jusseau , Serge Iovleff

Clustering is an essential data mining tool for analyzing and grouping similar objects. In big data applications, however, many clustering algorithms are infeasible due to their high memory requirements and/or unfavorable runtime…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Gregor Ulm , Simon Smith , Adrian Nilsson , Emil Gustavsson , Mats Jirstrand

Graph sparsification underlies a large number of algorithms, ranging from approximation algorithms for cut problems to solvers for linear systems in the graph Laplacian. In its strongest form, "spectral sparsification" reduces the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Simon Apers , Ronald de Wolf

In high dimensional regression, feature clustering by their effects on outcomes is often as important as feature selection. For that purpose, clustered Lasso and octagonal shrinkage and clustering algorithm for regression (OSCAR) are used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Atsumori Takahashi , Shunichi Nomura

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 signal processing (GSP) provides a powerful framework for analyzing signals arising in a variety of domains. In many applications of GSP, multiple network structures are available, each of which captures different aspects of the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Michael Weylandt , George Michailidis , T. Mitchell Roddenberry

We introduce the ParClusterers Benchmark Suite (PCBS) -- a collection of highly scalable parallel graph clustering algorithms and benchmarking tools that streamline comparing different graph clustering algorithms and implementations. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Shangdi Yu , Jessica Shi , Jamison Meindl , David Eisenstat , Xiaoen Ju , Sasan Tavakkol , Laxman Dhulipala , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Julian Shun

Spectral clustering requires the time-consuming decomposition of the Laplacian matrix of the similarity graph, thus limiting its applicability to large datasets. To improve the efficiency of spectral clustering, a top-down approach was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zhichang Xu , Zhiguo Long , Hua Meng

How might one "reduce" a graph? That is, generate a smaller graph that preserves the global structure at the expense of discarding local details? There has been extensive work on both graph sparsification (removing edges) and graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Lee M. Gunderson

Correlation clustering provides a method for separating the vertices of a signed graph into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance. The main goal in this type of clustering is to minimize the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Leila Parsaei-Majd

We study the statistical and computational properties of a network Lasso method for local graph clustering. The clusters delivered by nLasso can be characterized elegantly via network flows between cluster boundary and seed nodes. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Alexander Jung , Yasmin SarcheshmehPour

Traditional clustering methods typically focus on either cluster-wise global clustering or point-wise local clustering to reveal the intrinsic structures in unlabeled data. Global clustering optimizes an objective function to explore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yuxuan Yan , Na Lu , Difei Mei , Ruofan Yan , Youtian Du

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is one of the current state-of-the-art methods for partitioning data points into the union of subspaces, with strong theoretical guarantees. However, it is not practical for large data sets as it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Maryam Abdolali , Nicolas Gillis , Mohammad Rahmati

Structural clustering is one of the most popular graph clustering methods, which has achieved great performance improvement by utilizing GPUs. Even though, the state-of-the-art GPU-based structural clustering algorithm, GPUSCAN, still…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Long Yuan , Zeyu Zhou , Xuemin Lin , Zi Chen , Xiang Zhao , Fan Zhang

We use exponential start time clustering to design faster and more work-efficient parallel graph algorithms involving distances. Previous algorithms usually rely on graph decomposition routines with strict restrictions on the diameters of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng , Adrian Vladu , Shen Chen Xu

This paper proposes a fast system technology co-optimization (STCO) framework that optimizes power, performance, and area (PPA) for next-generation IC design, addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by novel materials and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Tianliang Ma , Guangxi Fan , Xuguang Sun , Zhihui Deng , Kainlu Low , Leilai Shao

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

A pair of complementary algorithms are presented. One of the pair is a fast method for connecting graphs with an edge. The other is a fast method for removing edges from a graph. Both algorithms employ the same tree based graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Michael J. Lee

This paper investigates graph clustering in the planted cluster model in the presence of {\em small clusters}. Traditional results dictate that for an algorithm to provably correctly recover the clusters, {\em all} clusters must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Nir Ailon , Yudong Chen , Xu Huan