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Clique clustering is the problem of partitioning the vertices of a graph into disjoint clusters, where each cluster forms a clique in the graph, while optimizing some objective function. In online clustering, the input graph is given one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Marek Chrobak , Christoph Durr , Aleksander Fabijan , Bengt Nilsson

We study how to sparsify connectivity in graphs under a tight deletion budget. Given a graph $G$ and integers $k,x \ge 0$, Critical Node Cut (CNC) asks whether we can delete at most $k$ vertices so that the number of remaining unordered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Dušan Knop , Nikolaos Melissinos , Manolis Vasilakis

In this paper we consider graphs whose edges are associated with a degree of {\em importance}, which may depend on the type of connections they represent or on how recently they appeared in the scene, in a streaming setting. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Patrizio Angelini , Michael A. Bekos

The Bad Triangle Transversal (BTT) problem asks for the smallest set of edges that need to be removed from a given signed graph, so that the resulting graph does not have a bad triangle. Here, a bad triangle is a triangle with exactly one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Florian Adriaens , Nikolaj tatti

An effective way to reduce clutter in a graph drawing that has (many) crossings is to group edges that travel in parallel into \emph{bundles}. Each edge can participate in many such bundles. Any crossing in this bundled graph occurs between…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Steven Chaplick , Thomas C. van Dijk , Myroslav Kryven , Ji-won Park , Alexander Ravsky , Alexander Wolff

Spectral clustering is sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data particularly when proximal and imbalanced clusters are present. We show that Ratio-Cut (RCut) or normalized cut (NCut) objectives are not tailored to imbalanced data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-11 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama

We establish Multilayer Correlation Clustering, a novel generalization of Correlation Clustering to the multilayer setting. In this model, we are given a series of inputs of Correlation Clustering (called layers) over the common set $V$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Atsushi Miyauchi , Florian Adriaens , Francesco Bonchi , Nikolaj Tatti

Clustering is an important facet of explorative data mining and finds extensive use in several fields. In this paper, we propose an extension of the classical Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm. The proposed algorithm, abbreviated as VFC,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Srinjoy Ganguly , Digbalay Bose , Amit Konar

Pixel intensity is a widely used feature for clustering and segmentation algorithms, the resulting segmentation using only intensity values might suffer from noises and lack of spatial context information. Wavelet transform is often used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Junyu Chen , Eric C. Frey

A connected partition is a partition of the vertices of a graph into sets that induce connected subgraphs. Such partitions naturally occur in many application areas such as road networks, and image processing. We consider Balanced Connected…

Correlation Clustering (CC) is a fundamental unsupervised learning primitive whose strongest LP-based approximation guarantees require $\Theta(n^3)$ triangle inequality constraints and are prohibitive at scale. We initiate the study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

Hypergraph partitioning is an important problem in machine learning, computer vision and network analytics. A widely used method for hypergraph partitioning relies on minimizing a normalized sum of the costs of partitioning hyperedges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Pan Li , Olgica Milenkovic

The balanced connected $k$-partition problem (\textsc{bcp}) is a classic problem, which consists in partitioning the set of vertices of a vertex-weighted connected graph into a collection of~$k$ classes such that each class induces a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Morteza Davari , Phablo F. S. Moura , Hande Yaman

In the framework of graph property testing, we study the problem of determining if a graph admits a cluster structure. We say that a graph is $(k, \phi)$-clusterable if it can be partitioned into at most $k$ parts such that each part has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Sandeep Silwal , Jonathan Tidor

Cluster Editing, also known as Correlation Clustering, is a well-studied graph modification problem. In this problem, one is given a graph and the task is to perform up to $k$ edge additions or deletions to transform it into a cluster…

Editing a graph into a disjoint union of clusters is a standard optimization task in graph-based data clustering. Here, complementing classic work where the clusters shall be cliques, we focus on clusters that shall be 2-clubs, that is,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Aleksander Figiel , Anne-Sophie Himmel , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

Bayesian clustering typically relies on mixture models, with each component interpreted as a different cluster. After defining a prior for the component parameters and weights, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are commonly used to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-30 Alexander Dombowsky , David B. Dunson

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Deep learning methods achieve the state-of-the-art results in recent years, but they still cannot work without predefined cluster numbers. Such limitation motivates us to pose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Li Sun , Zhenhao Huang , Hao Peng , Yujie Wang , Chunyang Liu , Philip S. Yu

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

In this work, a graph partitioning problem in a fixed number of connected components is considered. Given an undirected graph with costs on the edges, the problem consists of partitioning the set of nodes into a fixed number of subsets with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Mishelle Cordero , Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo , Diego Recalde , Ramiro Torres , Polo Vaca