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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

A recent trend in data mining has explored (hyper)graph clustering algorithms for data with categorical relationship types. Such algorithms have applications in the analysis of social, co-authorship, and protein interaction networks, to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Alex Crane , Brian Lavallee , Blair D. Sullivan , Nate Veldt

We consider a framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, where the goal is to cluster (equivalently, to color) objects based on the primary type of multiway interactions they participate in. One well-studied objective is to color…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Alex Crane , Thomas Stanley , Blair D. Sullivan , Nate Veldt

This study introduces the Multi-Scale Weight-Based Pairwise Coarsening and Contrastive Learning (MPCCL) model, a novel approach for attributed graph clustering that effectively bridges critical gaps in existing methods, including long-range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Binxiong Li , Yuefei Wang , Binyu Zhao , Heyang Gao , Benhan Yang , Quanzhou Luo , Xue Li , Xu Xiang , Yujie Liu , Huijie Tang

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

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 consider the problem of correlation clustering on graphs with constraints on both the cluster sizes and the positive and negative weights of edges. Our contributions are twofold: First, we introduce the problem of correlation clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

The paper considers the NP-hard graph vertex coloring problem, which differs from traditional problems in which it is required to color vertices with a given (or minimal) number of colors so that adjacent vertices have different colors. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Adil Erzin , Roman Plotnikov , Georgii Zhukov

In Bipartite Correlation Clustering (BCC) we are given a complete bipartite graph $G$ with `+' and `-' edges, and we seek a vertex clustering that maximizes the number of agreements: the number of all `+' edges within clusters plus all `-'…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Megasthenis Asteris , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We propose a novel approach for optimizing the graph ratio-cut by modeling the binary assignments as random variables. We provide an upper bound on the expected ratio-cut, as well as an unbiased estimate of its gradient, to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ayoub Ghriss , Claire Monteleoni

This paper studies the problem of graph-level clustering, which is a novel yet challenging task. This problem is critical in a variety of real-world applications such as protein clustering and genome analysis in bioinformatics. Recent years…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Wei Ju , Yiyang Gu , Binqi Chen , Gongbo Sun , Yifang Qin , Xingyuming Liu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

Correlation clustering is a ubiquitous paradigm in unsupervised machine learning where addressing unfairness is a major challenge. Motivated by this, we study Fair Correlation Clustering where the data points may belong to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Sara Ahmadian , Maryam Negahbani

Correlation clustering is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem arising in many contexts and applications that has been the subject of dozens of papers in the literature. In this problem we are given a general weighted graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Saba Ahmadi , Sainyam Galhotra , Samir Khuller , Barna Saha , Roy Schwartz

Clustering is the task of gathering similar data samples into clusters without using any predefined labels. It has been widely studied in machine learning literature, and recent advancements in deep learning have revived interest in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

In the Correlation Clustering problem we are given $n$ nodes, and a preference for each pair of nodes indicating whether we prefer the two endpoints to be in the same cluster or not. The output is a clustering inducing the minimum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Nick Fischer , Evangelos Kipouridis , Jonas Klausen , Mikkel Thorup

Motivated by applications in social and biological network analysis, we introduce a new form of agnostic clustering termed~\emph{motif correlation clustering}, which aims to minimize the cost of clustering errors associated with both edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Pan Li , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

In this paper, a new variant of an algorithm for normalized cross-correlation (NCC) is proposed in the context of template matching in images. The proposed algorithm is based on the precomputation of a template image approximation, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Davor Marušić , Siniša Popović , Zoran Kalafatić

In this paper, we propose and study a semi-random model for the Correlation Clustering problem on arbitrary graphs G. We give two approximation algorithms for Correlation Clustering instances from this model. The first algorithm finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We study here the semi-supervised $k$-clustering problem where information is available on whether pairs of objects are in the same or in different clusters. This information is either available with certainty or with a limited level of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Philipp Baumann , Dorit S. Hochbaum

Motivated by applications in community detection and dense subgraph discovery, we consider new clustering objectives in hypergraphs and bipartite graphs. These objectives are parameterized by one or more resolution parameters in order to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Nate Veldt , Anthony Wirth , David F. Gleich