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One of the fundamental problems in network analysis is detecting community structure in multi-layer networks, of which each layer represents one type of edge information among the nodes. We propose integrative spectral clustering approaches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Sihan Huang , Haolei Weng , Yang Feng

The performance of spectral clustering heavily relies on the quality of affinity matrix. A variety of affinity-matrix-construction (AMC) methods have been proposed but they have hyperparameters to determine beforehand, which requires strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jicong Fan , Yiheng Tu , Zhao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Haijun Zhang

Dimensionality reduction, cluster analysis, and sparse representation are basic components in machine learning. However, their relationships have not yet been fully investigated. In this paper, we find that the spectral graph theory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Zhenfang Hu , Gang Pan , Yueming Wang , Zhaohui Wu

Spectral clustering requires the time-consuming decomposition of the Laplacian matrix of the similarity graph, thus limiting its applicability to large datasets. To improve the efficiency of spectral clustering, a top-down approach was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zhichang Xu , Zhiguo Long , Hua Meng

Constrained clustering has been well-studied for algorithms such as $K$-means and hierarchical clustering. However, how to satisfy many constraints in these algorithmic settings has been shown to be intractable. One alternative to encode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Xiang Wang , Buyue Qian , Ian Davidson

In mixture models, anisotropic noise within each cluster is widely present in real-world data. This work investigates both computationally efficient procedures and fundamental statistical limits for clustering in high-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Chengzhu Huang , Yuqi Gu

The cost of computing the spectrum of Laplacian matrices hinders the application of spectral clustering to large data sets. While approximations recover computational tractability, they can potentially affect clustering performance. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-15 Yufei Han , Maurizio Filippone

Spectral Clustering(SC) is a prominent data clustering technique of recent times which has attracted much attention from researchers. It is a highly data-driven method and makes no strict assumptions on the structure of the data to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Lalith Srikanth Chintalapati , Raghunatha Sarma Rachakonda

Clustering is a fundamental task for analyzing unlabeled data based solely on its underlying distribution. Spectral clustering is a clustering method that represents a dataset as a graph and uses the relationships between data points.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Hyeong-Gyu Kim , Siheon Park , June-Koo Kevin Rhee

Spectral clustering is a popular method for community detection in network graphs: starting from a matrix representation of the graph, the nodes are clustered on a low dimensional projection obtained from a truncated spectral decomposition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-10 Francesco Sanna Passino , Nicholas A. Heard , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Spectral clustering is one of the most widely used techniques for extracting the underlying global structure of a data set. Compressed sensing and matrix completion have emerged as prevailing methods for efficiently recovering sparse and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-05 Blake Hunter , Thomas Strohmer

Spectral Clustering (SC) is one of the most widely used methods for data clustering. It first finds a low-dimensonal embedding $U$ of data by computing the eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian matrix, and then performs k-means on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Canyi Lu , Shuicheng Yan , Zhouchen Lin

Spectral clustering is a powerful method for finding structure in a dataset through the eigenvectors of a similarity matrix. It often outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as $k$-means when the structure of the individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Paola Favati , Grazia Lotti , Ornella Menchi , Francesco Romani

Accurate land cover segmentation of spectral images is challenging and has drawn widespread attention in remote sensing due to its inherent complexity. Although significant efforts have been made for developing a variety of methods, most of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Carlos Hinojosa , Esteban Vera , Henry Arguello

Spectral clustering is one of the most effective clustering approaches that capture hidden cluster structures in the data. However, it does not scale well to large-scale problems due to its quadratic complexity in constructing similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Lingfei Wu , Pin-Yu Chen , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Fangli Xu , Yinglong Xia , Charu Aggarwal

Spectral clustering has found extensive use in many areas. Most traditional spectral clustering algorithms work in three separate steps: similarity graph construction; continuous labels learning; discretizing the learned labels by k-means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Qiang Cheng , Zenglin Xu

Clustering is the problem of separating a set of objects into groups (called clusters) so that objects within the same cluster are more similar to each other than to those in different clusters. Spectral clustering is a now well-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-11-16 B. Cung , T. Jin , J. Ramirez , A. Thompson , C. Boutsidis , D. Needell

We build upon recent advances in graph signal processing to propose a faster spectral clustering algorithm. Indeed, classical spectral clustering is based on the computation of the first k eigenvectors of the similarity matrix' Laplacian,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Nicolas Tremblay , Gilles Puy , Pierre Borgnat , Remi Gribonval , Pierre Vandergheynst

This paper focuses on scalability and robustness of spectral clustering for extremely large-scale datasets with limited resources. Two novel algorithms are proposed, namely, ultra-scalable spectral clustering (U-SPEC) and ultra-scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Dong Huang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Sheng Wu , Jian-Huang Lai , Chee-Keong Kwoh

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular clustering methods. However, the high computational cost due to the involved eigen-decomposition procedure can immediately hinder its applications in large-scale tasks. In this paper we use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Yongyu Wang