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The Correlation Clustering problem is one of the most extensively studied clustering formulations due to its wide applications in machine learning, data mining, computational biology and other areas. We consider the Correlation Clustering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jianqi Zhou , Zhongyi Zhang , Jiong Guo

In this paper we study the problem of correlation clustering under fairness constraints. In the classic correlation clustering problem, we are given a complete graph where each edge is labeled positive or negative. The goal is to obtain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Saba Ahmadi , Sainyam Galhotra , Barna Saha , Roy Schwartz

We consider a generalized version of the correlation clustering problem, defined as follows. Given a complete graph $G$ whose edges are labeled with $+$ or $-$, we wish to partition the graph into clusters while trying to avoid errors: $+$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

Correlation clustering is a widely-used approach for clustering large data sets based only on pairwise similarity information. In recent years, there has been a steady stream of better and better classical algorithms for approximating this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron Putterman

Correlation Clustering is a powerful graph partitioning model that aims to cluster items based on the notion of similarity between items. An instance of the Correlation Clustering problem consists of a graph $G$ (not necessarily complete)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Timothy Zhou

Correlation Clustering is an elegant model that captures fundamental graph cut problems such as Min $s-t$ Cut, Multiway Cut, and Multicut, extensively studied in combinatorial optimization. Here, we are given a graph with edges labeled $+$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Moses Charikar , Neha Gupta , Roy Schwartz

We study parallel algorithms for correlation clustering. Each pair among $n$ objects is labeled as either "similar" or "dissimilar". The goal is to partition the objects into arbitrarily many clusters while minimizing the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Soheil Behnezhad , Moses Charikar , Weiyun Ma , Li-Yang Tan

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

Automatic colorization of gray images with objects of different colors and sizes is challenging due to inter- and intra-object color variation and the small area of the main objects due to extensive backgrounds. The learning process often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Mrityunjoy Gain , Avi Deb Raha , Rameswar Debnath

Correlation Clustering is a fundamental and widely-studied problem in unsupervised learning and data mining. The input is a graph and the goal is to construct a clustering minimizing the number of inter-cluster edges plus the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Shi Li , Euiwoong Lee , David Rasmussen Lolck , Alantha Newman , Mikkel Thorup , Lukas Vogl , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

In order to study real-world systems, many applied works model them through signed graphs, i.e. graphs whose edges are labeled as either positive or negative. Such a graph is considered as structurally balanced when it can be partitioned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Nejat Arinik , Rosa Figueiredo , Vincent Labatut

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

Clustering is a long-standing research problem and a fundamental tool in AI and data analysis. The traditional k-center problem, a fundamental theoretical challenge in clustering, has a best possible approximation ratio of 2, and any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chaoqi Jia , Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao , Zhigang Lu , Chao Chen , Jason Xue

In the classic Correlation Clustering problem introduced by Bansal, Blum, and Chawla (FOCS 2002), the input is a complete graph where edges are labeled either $+$ or $-$, and the goal is to find a partition of the vertices that minimizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Nairen Cao , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Shi Li , Alantha Newman , Lukas Vogl

We consider the classic correlation clustering problem in the hierarchical setting. Given a complete graph $G=(V,E)$ and $\ell$ layers of input information, where the input of each layer consists of a nonnegative weight and a labeling of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Hyung-Chan An , Mong-Jen Kao , Changyeol Lee , Mu-Ting Lee

We give new rounding schemes for the standard linear programming relaxation of the correlation clustering problem, achieving approximation factors almost matching the integrality gaps: - For complete graphs our appoximation is $2.06 -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Shuchi Chawla , Konstantin Makarychev , Tselil Schramm , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

In this paper, we study parallel algorithms for the correlation clustering problem, where every pair of two different entities is labeled with similar or dissimilar. The goal is to partition the entities into clusters to minimize the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Nairen Cao , Shang-En Huang , Hsin-Hao Su

Several clustering frameworks with interactive (semi-supervised) queries have been studied in the past. Recently, clustering with same-cluster queries has become popular. An algorithm in this setting has access to an oracle with full…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Barna Saha , Sanjay Subramanian

In Constrained Correlation Clustering, the goal is to cluster a complete signed graph in a way that minimizes the number of negative edges inside clusters plus the number of positive edges between clusters, while respecting hard constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nate Veldt

Given a graph with positive and negative edge labels, the correlation clustering problem aims to cluster the nodes so to minimize the total number of between-cluster positive and within-cluster negative edges. This problem has many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Konstantin Makarychev , Slobodan Mitrović