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In this paper, we present an approach to search result clustering, using partitioning of underlying link graph. We define the notion of "query-induced subgraph" and formulate the problem of search result clustering as a problem of efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-11-27 Aleksandar Bradic

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

Clustering has long been a popular unsupervised learning approach to identify groups of similar objects and discover patterns from unlabeled data in many applications. Yet, coming up with meaningful interpretations of the estimated clusters…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-26 Minjie Wang , Tianyi Yao , Genevera I. Allen

Unsupervised classification is a fundamental machine learning problem. Real-world data often contain imperfections, characterized by uncertainty and imprecision, which are not well handled by traditional methods. Evidential clustering,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Victor F. Lopes de Souza , Karima Bakhti , Sofiane Ramdani , Denis Mottet , Abdelhak Imoussaten

Document clustering is an unsupervised approach in which a large collection of documents (corpus) is subdivided into smaller, meaningful, identifiable, and verifiable sub-groups (clusters). Meaningful representation of documents and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Muhammad Rafi , Farnaz Amin , Mohammad Shahid Shaikh

Neural network-based clustering has recently gained popularity, and in particular a constrained clustering formulation has been proposed to perform transfer learning and image category discovery using deep learning. The core idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zhaoyang Lv , Joel Schlosser , Phillip Odom , Zsolt Kira

We introduce two different approaches for clustering semantically similar words. We accommodate ambiguity by allowing a word to belong to several clusters. Both methods use a graph-theoretic representation of words and their paradigmatic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 Beate Dorow , Dominic Widdows , Katarina Ling , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Danilo Sergi , Elisha Moses

In recent years, spectral clustering has become a standard method for data analysis used in a broad range of applications. In this paper we propose a new class of algorithms for multiway spectral clustering based on optimization of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-05 James Voss , Mikhail Belkin , Luis Rademacher

We consider the problem of spectral clustering under group fairness constraints, where samples from each sensitive group are approximately proportionally represented in each cluster. Traditional fair spectral clustering (FSC) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xiang Zhang , Qiao Wang

A scalable graphical method is presented for selecting, and partitioning datasets for the training phase of a classification task. For the heuristic, a clustering algorithm is required to get its computation cost in a reasonable proportion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Sumedh Yadav , Mathis Bode

We present a parallelized bijective graph matching algorithm that leverages seeds and is designed to match very large graphs. Our algorithm combines spectral graph embedding with existing state-of-the-art seeded graph matching procedures.…

Graph-based clustering plays an important role in the clustering area. Recent studies about graph convolution neural networks have achieved impressive success on graph type data. However, in general clustering tasks, the graph structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Xuelong Li , Hongyuan Zhang , Rui Zhang

We address the problem of un-supervised soft-clustering called micro-clustering. The aim of the problem is to enumerate all groups composed of records strongly related to each other, while standard clustering methods separate records at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Takeaki Uno , Hiroki Maegawa , Takanobu Nakahara , Yukinobu Hamuro , Ryo Yoshinaka , Makoto Tatsuta

Despite the popularity of explainable AI, there is limited work on effective methods for unsupervised learning. We study algorithms for $k$-means clustering, focusing on a trade-off between explainability and accuracy. Following prior work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

Spectral clustering is a popular method for effectively clustering nonlinearly separable data. However, computational limitations, memory requirements, and the inability to perform incremental learning challenge its widespread application.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jo-Chun Chen , Hung-Hsuan Chen

In a previous paper, we proposed an introduction to the explainability of Graph Spectral Clustering results for textual documents, given that document similarity is computed as cosine similarity in term vector space. In this paper, we…

Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu

When it comes to clustering nonconvex shapes, two paradigms are used to find the most suitable clustering: minimum cut and maximum density. The most popular algorithms incorporating these paradigms are Spectral Clustering and DBSCAN. Both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Sibylle Hess , Wouter Duivesteijn , Philipp Honysz , Katharina Morik

Ensemble trees are a popular machine learning model which often yields high prediction performance when analysing structured data. Although individual small decision trees are deemed explainable by nature, an ensemble of large trees is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Gelin Zhang , Zhe Hou , Yanhong Huang , Jianqi Shi , Hadrien Bride , Jin Song Dong , Yongsheng Gao

We revisit the theoretical performances of Spectral Clustering, a classical algorithm for graph partitioning that relies on the eigenvectors of a matrix representation of the graph. Informally, we show that Spectral Clustering works well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 George Tyler , Luca Zanetti