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The objective of this paper is to propose a framework, called Rough Clustering-based Consensus Community Detection (RC-CCD), to effectively address the challenge of identifying community structures in complex networks from a set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Darian H. Grass-Boada , Leandro González-Montesino , Rubén Armañanzas

We propose a novel robust decentralized graph clustering algorithm that is provably equivalent to the popular spectral clustering approach. Our proposed method uses the existing wave equation clustering algorithm that is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Hongyu Zhu , Stefan Klus , Tuhin Sahai

Deep graph clustering (DGC), which aims to unsupervisedly separate the nodes in an attribute graph into different clusters, has seen substantial potential in various industrial scenarios like community detection and recommendation. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yaowen Hu , Wenxuan Tu , Yue Liu , Xinhang Wan , Junyi Yan , Taichun Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Clustering is widely used in unsupervised learning to find homogeneous groups of observations within a dataset. However, clustering mixed-type data remains a challenge, as few existing approaches are suited for this task. This study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Badih Ghattas , Alvaro Sanchez San-Benito

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

Graph-SLAM is a well-established algorithm for constructing a topological map of the environment while simultaneously attempting the localisation of the robot. It relies on scan matching algorithms to align noisy observations along robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Giorgio Iavicoli , Claudio Zito

The nearest prototype classification is a less computationally intensive replacement for the $k$-NN method, especially when large datasets are considered. In metric spaces, centroids are often used as prototypes to represent whole clusters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jaroslav Hlaváč , Martin Kopp , Jan Kohout

This paper presents Constrained Centroid Clustering (CCC), a method that extends classical centroid-based clustering by enforcing a constraint on the maximum distance between the cluster center and the farthest point in the cluster. Using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni , Ramamurthy Garimella

Spectral clustering is a powerful tool for unsupervised data analysis. In this paper, we propose a context-aware hypergraph similarity measure (CAHSM), which leads to robust spectral clustering in the case of noisy data. We construct three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xi Li , Weiming Hu , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Zhongfei Zhang

Modern graph or network datasets often contain rich structure that goes beyond simple pairwise connections between nodes. This calls for complex representations that can capture, for instance, edges of different types as well as so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson

We present a novel hierarchical graph clustering algorithm inspired by modularity-based clustering techniques. The algorithm is agglomerative and based on a simple distance between clusters induced by the probability of sampling node pairs.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Thomas Bonald , Bertrand Charpentier , Alexis Galland , Alexandre Hollocou

A wide range of (multivariate) temporal (1D) and spatial (2D) data analysis tasks, such as grouping vehicle sensor trajectories, can be formulated as clustering with given metric constraints. Existing metric-constrained clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhangyu Wang , Gengchen Mai , Krzysztof Janowicz , Ni Lao

SpectralNet is a graph clustering method that uses neural network to find an embedding that separates the data. So far it was only used with $k$-nn graphs, which are usually constructed using a distance metric (e.g., Euclidean distance).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mashaan Alshammari , John Stavrakakis , Adel F. Ahmed , Masahiro Takatsuka

Unsupervised Re-ID methods aim at learning robust and discriminative features from unlabeled data. However, existing methods often ignore the relationship between module parameters of Re-ID framework and feature distributions, which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Ziqi He , Mengjia Xue , Yunhao Du , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su

Unsupervised classification called clustering is a process of organizing objects into groups whose members are similar in some way. Clustering of uncertain data objects is a challenge in spatial data bases. In this paper we use Probability…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Ramachandra Rao Kurada

We present a new supervised image classification method applicable to a broad class of image deformation models. The method makes use of the previously described Radon Cumulative Distribution Transform (R-CDT) for image data, whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Mohammad Shifat-E-Rabbi , Xuwang Yin , Abu Hasnat Mohammad Rubaiyat , Shiying Li , Soheil Kolouri , Akram Aldroubi , Jonathan M. Nichols , Gustavo K. Rohde

Measuring graph clustering quality remains an open problem. To address it, we introduce quality measures based on comparisons of intra- and inter-cluster densities, an accompanying statistical test of the significance of their differences…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff , Anthony J. Bonner , Yuri Lawryshyn , Panos M. Pardalos

Despite plentiful successes achieved by graph representation learning in various domains, the training of graph neural networks (GNNs) still remains tenaciously challenging due to the tremendous computational overhead needed for sizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yurui Lai , Taiyan Zhang , Renchi Yang

Current modularity-based community detection algorithms attempt to find cluster memberships that maximize modularity within a fixed graph topology. Diverging from this conventional approach, our work introduces a novel strategy that employs…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-02-27 Yongyu Wang , Shiqi Hao , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaotian Zhuang

Graph clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that partitions the nodes in a graph into different groups. Despite achieving significant progress in exploiting both attributed and structured data information, graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyang Hou , Zhihua Tian , Yan he , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Qingbiao Wu , Kui Ren