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This paper considers correlation clustering on unweighted complete graphs. We give a combinatorial algorithm that returns a single clustering solution that is simultaneously $O(1)$-approximate for all $\ell_p$-norms of the disagreement…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Sami Davies , Benjamin Moseley , Heather Newman

The study of approximate matching in the Massively Parallel Computations (MPC) model has recently seen a burst of breakthroughs. Despite this progress, however, we still have a far more limited understanding of maximal matching which is one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Soheil Behnezhad , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David G. Harris

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 study the classic problem of correlation clustering in dynamic node streams. In this setting, nodes are either added or randomly deleted over time, and each node pair is connected by a positive or negative edge. The objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Andreas Maggiori , Nikos Parotsidis

Chromatic Correlation Clustering (CCC) generalizes Correlation Clustering by assigning multiple categorical relationships (colors) to edges and imposing chromatic constraints on the clusters. Unlike traditional Correlation Clustering, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dahoon Lee , Chenglin Fan , Euiwoong Lee

We revisit the simultaneous approximation model for the correlation clustering problem introduced by Davies, Moseley, and Newman[DMN24]. The objective is to find a clustering that minimizes given norms of the disagreement vector over all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Nairen Cao , Shi Li , Jia Ye

Many application areas collect unstructured trajectory data. In subtrajectory clustering, one is interested to find patterns in this data using a hybrid combination of segmentation and clustering. We analyze two variants of this problem…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jacobus Conradi , Anne Driemel

Correlation clustering seeks a partition of the vertex set of a given graph/network into groups of closely related, or just close enough, vertices so that elements of different groups are not close to each other. The problem has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Lucas Isenmann , Sergio Thoumi

We present combinatorial approximation algorithms for the weighted correlation clustering problem. In this problem, we have a set of vertices and two weight values for each pair of vertices, denoting their difference and similarity. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mojtaba Ostovari , Alireza Zarei

Correlation Clustering (CC) is a fundamental unsupervised learning primitive whose strongest LP-based approximation guarantees require $\Theta(n^3)$ triangle inequality constraints and are prohibitive at scale. We initiate the study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

In [SIAM J. Optim., 2022], the authors introduced a new linear programming (LP) relaxation for K-means clustering. In this paper, we further investigate both theoretical and computational properties of this relaxation. As evident from our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Antonio De Rosa , Aida Khajavirad , Yakun Wang

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

Resolution parameters in graph clustering represent a size and quality trade-off. We address the task of efficiently solving a parameterized graph clustering objective for all values of a resolution parameter. Specifically, we consider an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Junhao Gan , David F. Gleich , Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth , Xin Zhang

This work initiates the study of memory-query tradeoffs for graph problems, with a focus on correlation clustering. Correlation clustering asks for a partition of the vertices that minimizes disagreements: non-edges inside clusters plus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sumegha Garg , Songhua He , Periklis A. Papakonstantinou

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a set of objects with pairwise similarity information. Our aim is to partition these objects into clusters that match this information as closely as possible. More specifically, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jafar Jafarov

Many problems in machine learning can be solved by rounding the solution of an appropriate linear program (LP). This paper shows that we can recover solutions of comparable quality by rounding an approximate LP solution instead of the ex-…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Srikrishna Sridhar , Victor Bittorf , Ji Liu , Ce Zhang , Christopher Ré , Stephen J. Wright

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a complete weighted graph $G$ with its edges labeled as "similar" and "dissimilar" by a noisy binary classifier. For a clustering $\mathcal{C}$ of graph $G$, a similar edge is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jafar Jafarov , Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev

In correlation clustering, we are given $n$ objects together with a binary similarity score between each pair of them. The goal is to partition the objects into clusters so to minimise the disagreements with the scores. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Marco Bressan , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Andrea Paudice , Fabio Vitale

We study the classic correlation clustering in the dynamic setting. Given $n$ objects and a complete labeling of the object-pairs as either similar or dissimilar, the goal is to partition the objects into arbitrarily many clusters while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Soheil Behnezhad , Moses Charikar , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Alma Ghafari , Weiyun Ma

Correlation clustering is a widely used technique in unsupervised machine learning. Motivated by applications where individual privacy is a concern, we initiate the study of differentially private correlation clustering. We propose an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Mark Bun , Marek Eliáš , Janardhan Kulkarni