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Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental machine-learning technique for grouping data points into dendrograms. However, existing hierarchical clustering methods encounter two primary challenges: 1) Most methods specify dendrograms without a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Guangjie Zeng , Hao Peng , Angsheng Li , Li Sun , Chunyang Liu , Shengze Li , Yicheng Pan , Philip S. Yu

Identifying possible clusters in datasets and estimating their overall modularity are central tasks in pattern recognition. In the present work, concepts and methodologies are described for performing these tasks while considering only the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-27 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

Many networks can be characterised by the presence of communities, which are groups of units that are closely linked. Identifying these communities can be crucial for understanding the system's overall function. Recently, hypergraphs have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

Hierarchical clustering is a class of algorithms that seeks to build a hierarchy of clusters. It has been the dominant approach to constructing embedded classification schemes since it outputs dendrograms, which capture the hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-28 Xiaofei Ma , Satya Dhavala

Hierarchical clustering of networks consists in finding a tree of communities, such that lower levels of the hierarchy reveal finer-grained community structures. There are two main classes of algorithms tackling this problem. Divisive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Maximilien Dreveton , Daichi Kuroda , Matthias Grossglauser , Patrick Thiran

Community detection is a critical task in graph theory, social network analysis, and bioinformatics, where communities are defined as clusters of densely interconnected nodes. However, detecting communities in large-scale networks with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yantuan Xian , Pu Li , Hao Peng , Zhengtao Yu , Yan Xiang , Philip S. Yu

Modular and hierarchical community structures are pervasive in real-world complex systems. A great deal of effort has gone into trying to detect and study these structures. Important theoretical advances in the detection of modular have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Michael T. Schaub , Jiaze Li , Leto Peel

Clustering and community structure is crucial for many network systems and the related dynamic processes. It has been shown that communities are usually overlapping and hierarchical. However, previous methods investigate these two…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2009-02-20 Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng , Kai Cai , Mao-Bin Hu

We derive a statistical model for estimation of a dendrogram from single linkage hierarchical clustering (SLHC) that takes account of uncertainty through noise or corruption in the measurements of separation of data. Our focus is on just…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-26 Dekang Zhu , Dan P. Guralnik , Xuezhi Wang , Xiang Li , Bill Moran

The problem of community detection in networks is usually formulated as finding a single partition of the network into some "correct" number of communities. We argue that it is more interpretable and in some regimes more accurate to…

Hypergraphs, describing networks where interactions take place among any number of units, are a natural tool to model many real-world social and biological systems. In this work we propose a principled framework to model the organization of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Nicolò Ruggeri , Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Hierarchical graph clustering is a common technique to reveal the multi-scale structure of complex networks. We propose a novel metric for assessing the quality of a hierarchical clustering. This metric reflects the ability to reconstruct…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Thomas Bonald , Bertrand Charpentier

Many real world networks consist of multiple types of nodes with edges that are heterogeneous in nature. However, most of the existing work for community detection only focused on homogeneous network consisting of a single layer. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-19 Fan Yang , Fengshuo Zhang

Hierarchical clustering is a common algorithm in data analysis. It is unique among many clustering algorithms in that it draws dendrograms based on the distance of data under a certain metric, and group them. It is widely used in all areas…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 Heng Yu , Xiaolan Hou

Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge

Many networks in nature, society and technology are characterized by a mesoscopic level of organization, with groups of nodes forming tightly connected units, called communities or modules, that are only weakly linked to each other.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-11 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato , Janos Kertesz

Hierarchical clustering is one of the most powerful solutions to the problem of clustering, on the grounds that it performs a multi scale organization of the data. In recent years, research on hierarchical clustering methods has attracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Antonia Korba

One of the main challenges for hierarchical clustering is how to appropriately identify the representative points in the lower level of the cluster tree, which are going to be utilized as the roots in the higher level of the cluster tree…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Wen-Bo Xie , Zhen Liu , Jaideep Srivastava

Using the maximum entropy method, we derive the "adaptive cluster expansion" (ACE), which can be trained to estimate probability density functions in high dimensional spaces. The main advantage of ACE over other Bayesian networks is its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stephen Luttrell

Community detection algorithms have been widely used to study the organization of complex systems like the brain. A principal appeal of these techniques is their ability to identify a partition of brain regions (or nodes) into communities,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-20 Arian Ashourvan , Qawi K. Telesford , Timothy Verstynen , Jean M. Vettel , Danielle S. Bassett
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