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Clustering large, mixed data is a central problem in data mining. Many approaches adopt the idea of k-means, and hence are sensitive to initialisation, detect only spherical clusters, and require a priori the unknown number of clusters. We…

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Safe artificial intelligence for perception tasks remains a major challenge, partly due to the lack of data with high-quality labels. Annotations themselves are subject to aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty, which is typically ignored…

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Distributed signal processing for wireless sensor networks enables that different devices cooperate to solve different signal processing tasks. A crucial first step is to answer the question: who observes what? Recently, several distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Patricia Binder , Michael Muma , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

We introduce a novel algorithm to perform graph clustering in the edge streaming setting. In this model, the graph is presented as a sequence of edges that can be processed strictly once. Our streaming algorithm has an extremely low memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Alexandre Hollocou , Julien Maudet , Thomas Bonald , Marc Lelarge

In this paper, we present distributed generalized clustering algorithms that can handle large scale data across multiple machines in spite of straggling or unreliable machines. We propose a novel data assignment scheme that enables us to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Venkata Gandikota , Arya Mazumdar , Ankit Singh Rawat

Many methods have been developed for data clustering, such as k-means, expectation maximization and algorithms based on graph theory. In this latter case, graphs are generally constructed by taking into account the Euclidian distance as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-27 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

An increasingly important challenge in network analysis is efficient detection and tracking of communities in dynamic networks for which changes arrive as a stream. There is a need for algorithms that can incrementally update and monitor…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Mingming Chen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

We consider the problem of clustering graph nodes over large-scale dynamic graphs, such as citation networks, images and web networks, when graph updates such as node/edge insertions/deletions are observed distributively. We propose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Chun Jiang Zhu , Tan Zhu , Kam-Yiu Lam , Song Han , Jinbo Bi

Graph clustering is crucial for unraveling intricate data structures, yet it presents significant challenges due to its unsupervised nature. Recently, goal-directed clustering techniques have yielded impressive results, with contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Enhao Cheng , Shoujia Zhang , Jianhua Yin , Li Jin , Liqiang Nie

Higher-order connectivity patterns such as small induced sub-graphs called graphlets (network motifs) are vital to understand the important components (modules/functional units) governing the configuration and behavior of complex networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aldo G. Carranza , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Eunyee Koh

A novel nonparametric clustering algorithm is proposed using the interpoint distances between the members of the data to reveal the inherent clustering structure existing in the given set of data, where we apply the classical nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-02 Soumita Modak

The structure of many complex networks includes edge directionality and weights on top of their topology. Network analysis that can seamlessly consider combination of these properties are desirable. In this paper, we study two important…

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Unsupervised domain adaptation aiming to learn a specific task for one domain using another domain data has emerged to address the labeling issue in supervised learning, especially because it is difficult to obtain massive amounts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Jaeyoon Yoo , Changhwa Park , Yongjun Hong , Sungroh Yoon

Graph sampling via crawling has become increasingly popular and important in the study of measuring various characteristics of large scale complex networks. While powerful, it is known to be challenging when the graph is loosely connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Junzhou Zhao , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Pinghui Wang , Xiaohong Guan

Clustering a graph, i.e., assigning its nodes to groups, is an important operation whose best known application is the discovery of communities in social networks. Graph clustering and community detection have traditionally focused on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Cecile Bothorel , Juan David Cruz , Matteo Magnani , Barbora Micenkova

Local graph clustering is an important algorithmic technique for analysing massive graphs, and has been widely applied in many research fields of data science. While the objective of most (local) graph clustering algorithms is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Peter Macgregor , He Sun

In high-dimension, low-sample size (HDLSS) data, it is not always true that closeness of two objects reflects a hidden cluster structure. We point out the important fact that it is not the closeness, but the "values" of distance that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-30 Yoshikazu Terada

Clustering is an essential technique for network analysis, with applications in a diverse range of fields. Although spectral clustering is a popular and effective method, it fails to consider higher-order structure and can perform poorly on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-14 William George Underwood , Andrew Elliott , Mihai Cucuringu

Spectral clustering is one of the most prominent clustering approaches. The distance-based similarity is the most widely used method for spectral clustering. However, people have already noticed that this is not suitable for multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hengrui Wang , Yubo Zhang , Mingzhi Chen , Tong Yang

In this paper we are going to introduce a new nearest neighbours based approach to clustering, and compare it with previous solutions; the resulting algorithm, which takes inspiration from both DBscan and minimum spanning tree approaches,…

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