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Efficient exact algorithms for Discrete Optimization (DO) rely heavily on strong primal and dual bounds. Relaxed Decision Diagrams (DDs) provide a versatile mechanism for deriving such dual bounds by compactly over-approximating the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Mohsen Nafar , Michael Römer , Lin Xie

Temporal graph clustering is a complex task that involves discovering meaningful structures in dynamic graphs where relationships and entities change over time. Existing methods typically require centralized data collection, which poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zihao Zhou , Yang Liu , Xianghong Xu , Qian Li

Clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis and machine learning, used to group similar data points together. Among various clustering methods, the Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) is one of the most widely used. MSSC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Anna Livia Croella , Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

Graph clustering has been popularly studied in recent years. However, most existing graph clustering methods focus on node-level clustering, i.e., grouping nodes in a single graph into clusters. In contrast, graph-level clustering, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Mengling Hu , Chaochao Chen , Weiming Liu , Xinyi Zhang , Xinting Liao , Xiaolin Zheng

Clustering is a popular form of unsupervised learning for geometric data. Unfortunately, many clustering algorithms lead to cluster assignments that are hard to explain, partially because they depend on all the features of the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

We propose a parametric family of algorithms for personalized federated learning with locally convex user costs. The proposed framework is based on a generalization of convex clustering in which the differences between different users'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Aleksandar Armacki , Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Soummya Kar

This paper addresses the clustering of data in the hyperdimensional computing (HDC) domain. In prior work, an HDC-based clustering framework, referred to as HDCluster, has been proposed. However, the performance of the existing HDCluster is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Lulu Ge , Keshab K. Parhi

Hierarchical clustering is a critical task in numerous domains. Many approaches are based on heuristics and the properties of the resulting clusterings are studied post hoc. However, in several applications, there is a natural cost function…

Approximate convex decomposition aims to decompose a 3D shape into a set of almost convex components, whose convex hulls can then be used to represent the input shape. It thus enables efficient geometry processing algorithms specifically…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Xinyue Wei , Minghua Liu , Zhan Ling , Hao Su

Computational guidance is an emerging and accelerating trend in aerospace guidance and control. Combining machine learning and convex optimization, this paper presents a real-time computational guidance method for the 6-degrees-of-freedom…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Zhipeng Shen , Shiyu Zhou , Jianglong Yu

State-of-the-art federated learning methods can perform far worse than their centralized counterparts when clients have dissimilar data distributions. For neural networks, even when centralized SGD easily finds a solution that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yaodong Yu , Alexander Wei , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Yi Ma , Michael I. Jordan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViT) have dominated the field of Computer Vision (CV). Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have performed remarkably well across diverse domains because they can represent complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Dhruv Parikh , Jacob Fein-Ashley , Tian Ye , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Efficient extraction of useful knowledge from these data is still a challenge, mainly when the data is distributed, heterogeneous and of different quality depending on its corresponding local infrastructure. To reduce the overhead cost,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

We propose methods for the analysis of hierarchical clustering that fully use the multi-resolution structure provided by a dendrogram. Specifically, we propose a loss for choosing between clustering methods, a feature importance score and a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-31 Luben M. C. Cabezas , Rafael Izbicki , Rafael B. Stern

Spatial clustering is a crucial field, finding universal use across criminology, pathology, and urban planning. However, most spatial clustering algorithms cannot pull information from nearby nodes and suffer performance drops when dealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Aidan Gao , Junhong Lin

Most of the research on clustering ensemble focuses on designing practical consistency learning algorithms.To solve the problems that the quality of base clusters varies and the low-quality base clusters have an impact on the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jianwen Gan , Yan Chen , Peng Zhou , Liang Du

In this paper, we propose a randomly projected convex clustering model for clustering a collection of $n$ high dimensional data points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $K$ hidden clusters. Compared to the convex clustering model for clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Ziwen Wang , Yancheng Yuan , Jiaming Ma , Tieyong Zeng , Defeng Sun

A dynamic graph (DG) is frequently encountered in numerous real-world scenarios. Consequently, A dynamic graph convolutional network (DGCN) has been successfully applied to perform precise representation learning on a DG. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Minglian Han

The minimum spanning tree clustering algorithm is capable of detecting clusters with irregular boundaries. In this paper we propose two minimum spanning trees based clustering algorithm. The first algorithm produces k clusters with center…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-05-26 S. John Peter , S. P. Victor

Persistence diagrams (PDs) are now routinely used to summarize the underlying topology of complex data. Despite several appealing properties, incorporating PDs in learning pipelines can be challenging because their natural geometry is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Théo Lacombe , Marco Cuturi , Steve Oudot