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Spectral clustering has been one of the widely used methods for community detection in networks. However, large-scale networks bring computational challenges to the eigenvalue decomposition therein. In this paper, we study the spectral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Hai Zhang , Xiao Guo , Xiangyu Chang

Spectral clustering is known as a powerful technique in unsupervised data analysis. The vast majority of approaches to spectral clustering are driven by a single modality, leaving the rich information in multi-modal representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bo Peng , Yuanwei Hu , Bo Liu , Ling Chen , Jie Lu , Zhen Fang

Hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering is a challenging task due to the high complexity of HSI data. Subspace clustering has been proven to be powerful for exploiting the intrinsic relationship between data points. Despite the impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yaoming Cai , Zijia Zhang , Zhihua Cai , Xiaobo Liu , Xinwei Jiang , Qin Yan

Graph-Laplacians and their spectral embeddings play an important role in multiple areas of machine learning. This paper is focused on graph-Laplacian dimension reduction for the spectral clustering of data as a primary application. Spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky

We revisit the problem of spectral clustering in multimodal settings, where each data modality is encoded as a graph Laplacian. While classical approaches--including joint diagonalization, spectral co-regularization, and multiview…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Haoze He , Artemis Pados , Daniel Kressner

Color and intensity are two important components in an image. Usually, groups of image pixels, which are similar in color or intensity, are an informative representation for an object. They are therefore particularly suitable for computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Guanjun Guo , Hanzi Wang , Wan-Lei Zhao , Yan Yan , Xuelong Li

Clustering algorithms have long been the topic of research, representing the more popular side of unsupervised learning. Since clustering analysis is one of the best ways to find some clarity and structure within raw data, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Naitik Gada

While clustering is ubiquitously used across science and industry, uncertainty in cluster assignments is rarely quantified with rigorous guarantees. We propose a novel conformal inference framework for clustering that returns confidence…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-13 YoonHaeng Hur , Anirban Nath , Genevera Allen

We propose a new model-independent method for new physics searches called Cluster Scanning. It uses the k-means algorithm to perform clustering in the space of low-level event or jet observables, and separates potentially anomalous clusters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Ivan Oleksiyuk , John Andrew Raine , Michael Krämer , Svyatoslav Voloshynovskiy , Tobias Golling

This paper presents a co-clustering technique that, given a collection of images and their hierarchies, clusters nodes from these hierarchies to obtain a coherent multiresolution representation of the image collection. We formalize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-19 David Varas , Mónica Alfaro , Ferran Marques

Clustering is a popular form of unsupervised learning for geometric data. Unfortunately, many clustering algorithms lead to cluster assignments that are hard to explain, partially because they depend on all the features of the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

Subspace clustering algorithms are notorious for their scalability issues because building and processing large affinity matrices are demanding. In this paper, we introduce a method that simultaneously learns an embedding space along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Tong Zhang , Pan Ji , Mehrtash Harandi , Richard Hartley , Ian Reid

In modern data analysis, statistical efficiency improvement is expected via effective collaboration among multiple data holders with non-shared data. In this article, we propose a collaborative score-type test (CST) for testing linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-30 Yifan Gu , Hanfang Yang , Songshan Yang , Hui Zou

While several feature embedding models have been developed in the literature, comparisons of these embeddings have largely focused on their numerical performance in classification-related downstream applications. However, an interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Mohammad Jalali , Bahar Dibaei Nia , Farzan Farnia

Clustering, as an unsupervised technique, plays a pivotal role in various data analysis applications. Among clustering algorithms, Spectral Clustering on Euclidean Spaces has been extensively studied. However, with the rapid evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Sagar Ghosh , Swagatam Das

The Soft Happy Colouring (SHC) problem, a mathematical framework for identifying homophilic network structures, seeks to maximise the number of $\rho$-happy vertices, i.e. vertices with at least a proportion $\rho$ of neighbours that share…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz , Asef Nazari , Dhananjay Thiruvady

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

Recently, a number of works have studied clustering strategies that combine classical clustering algorithms and deep learning methods. These approaches follow either a sequential way, where a deep representation is learned using a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Severine Affeldt , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif

We study the problem of non-parametric clustering of data sequences, where each data sequence comprises independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples generated from an unknown distribution. The true clusters are the clusters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 G Dhinesh Chandran , Kota Srinivas Reddy , Srikrishna Bhashyam

Estimating the number of clusters (K) is a critical and often difficult task in cluster analysis. Many methods have been proposed to estimate K, including some top performers using resampling approach. When performing cluster analysis in…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-05 Yujia Li , Xiangrui Zeng , Chien-Wei Lin , George Tseng