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Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) has achieved state-of-the-art clustering quality by performing spectral clustering over a $\ell^{1}$-norm based similarity graph. However, SSC is a transductive method which does not handle with the data not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Xi Peng , Lei Zhang , Zhang Yi

In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for performing spectral clustering efficiently. Spectral clustering is a powerful clustering algorithm that suffers from high computational complexity, due to eigen decomposition. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Ershad Banijamali , Ali Ghodsi

This paper establishes the theoretical limits of graph clustering under the Popularity-Adjusted Block Model (PABM), addressing limitations of existing models. In contrast to the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), which assumes uniform vertex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Maximilien Dreveton , Elaine Siyu Liu , Matthias Grossglauser , Patrick Thiran

Learning meaningful graphs from data plays important roles in many data mining and machine learning tasks, such as data representation and analysis, dimension reduction, data clustering, and visualization, etc. In this work, for the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Yongyu Wang , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

We present a procedure to sample uniformly from the set of combinatorial isomorphism types of balanced triangulations of surfaces - also known as graph-encoded surfaces. For a given number $n$, the sample is a weighted set of graph-encoded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Rajan Shankar , Jonathan Spreer

Spectral clustering approaches have led to well-accepted algorithms for finding accurate clusters in a given dataset. However, their application to large-scale datasets has been hindered by computational complexity of eigenvalue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Shahzad Bhatti , Carolyn Beck , Angelia Nedic

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is one of the current state-of-the-art methods for partitioning data points into the union of subspaces, with strong theoretical guarantees. However, it is not practical for large data sets as it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Maryam Abdolali , Nicolas Gillis , Mohammad Rahmati

Spectral-type subspace clustering algorithms have shown excellent performance in many subspace clustering applications. The existing spectral-type subspace clustering algorithms either focus on designing constraints for the reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Lai Wei , Zhengwei Chen , Jun Yin , Changming Zhu , Rigui Zhou , Jin Liu

Spectral clustering is a technique that clusters elements using the top few eigenvectors of their (possibly normalized) similarity matrix. The quality of spectral clustering is closely tied to the convergence properties of these principal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-05 Purnamrita Sarkar , Peter J. Bickel

Neighborhood graphs are a critical but often fragile step in spectral clustering of text embeddings. On realistic text datasets, standard $k$-NN graphs can contain many disconnected components at practical sparsity levels (small $k$),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Marko Pranjić , Boshko Koloski , Nada Lavrač , Senja Pollak , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

We pose video object segmentation as spectral graph clustering in space and time, with one graph node for each pixel and edges forming local space-time neighborhoods. We claim that the strongest cluster in this video graph represents the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Elena Burceanu , Marius Leordeanu

Spectral Clustering is a popular technique to split data points into groups, especially for complex datasets. The algorithms in the Spectral Clustering family typically consist of multiple separate stages (such as similarity matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Yifei Wang , Rui Liu , Yong Chen , Hui Zhangs , Zhiwen Ye

Spectral clustering is a popular clustering method. It first maps data into the spectral embedding space and then uses Kmeans to find clusters. However, the two decoupled steps prohibit joint optimization for the optimal solution. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wengang Guo , Wei Ye

We present a structural clustering algorithm for large-scale datasets of small labeled graphs, utilizing a frequent subgraph sampling strategy. A set of representatives provides an intuitive description of each cluster, supports the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Till Schäfer , Petra Mutzel

Spectral clustering (SC) is a popular clustering technique to find strongly connected communities on a graph. SC can be used in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to implement pooling operations that aggregate nodes belonging to the same cluster.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Daniele Grattarola , Cesare Alippi

Sparsification reduces the size of networks while preserving structural and statistical properties of interest. Various sparsifying algorithms have been proposed in different contexts. We contribute the first systematic conceptual and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Gerd Lindner , Christian L. Staudt , Michael Hamann , Henning Meyerhenke , Dorothea Wagner

The coexistence of sparsity and clustering (non-vanishing average fraction of triangles per node) is one of the few structural features that, irrespective of finer details, are ubiquitously observed across large real-world networks. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alessio Catanzaro , Remco van der Hofstad , Diego Garlaschelli

Laplacian Eigenvectors of the graph constructed from a data set are used in many spectral manifold learning algorithms such as diffusion maps and spectral clustering. Given a graph constructed from a random sample of a $d$-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-29 Xu Wang

Sampling of signals defined over the nodes of a graph is one of the crucial problems in graph signal processing. While in classical signal processing sampling is a well defined operation, when we consider a graph signal many new challenges…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

We study vertex sparsification for preserving distances in planar graphs. Given an edge-weighted planar graph with $k$ terminals, the goal is to construct an emulator, which is a smaller edge-weighted planar graph that contains the…

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