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Finding a maximum clique in a given graph is one of the fundamental NP-hard problems. We compare two multi-core thread-parallel adaptations of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for the maximum clique problem, and provide a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

Graph clustering problems typically aim to partition the graph nodes such that two nodes belong to the same partition set if and only if they are similar. Correlation Clustering is a graph clustering formulation which: (1) takes as input a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

In this paper, we propose and study a semi-random model for the Correlation Clustering problem on arbitrary graphs G. We give two approximation algorithms for Correlation Clustering instances from this model. The first algorithm finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We study streaming algorithms for Correlation Clustering. Given a graph as an arbitrary-order stream of edges, with each edge labeled as positive or negative, the goal is to partition the vertices into disjoint clusters, such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yinhao Dong , Shan Jiang , Shi Li , Pan Peng

Correlation clustering seeks a partition of the vertex set of a given graph/network into groups of closely related, or just close enough, vertices so that elements of different groups are not close to each other. The problem has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Lucas Isenmann , Sergio Thoumi

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

Given a complete graph $G = (V, E)$ where each edge is labeled $+$ or $-$, the Correlation Clustering problem asks to partition $V$ into clusters to minimize the number of $+$edges between different clusters plus the number of $-$edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Alantha Newman

Correlation clustering is a ubiquitous paradigm in unsupervised machine learning where addressing unfairness is a major challenge. Motivated by this, we study Fair Correlation Clustering where the data points may belong to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Sara Ahmadian , Maryam Negahbani

We present an efficient algorithm for the min-max correlation clustering problem. The input is a complete graph where edges are labeled as either positive $(+)$ or negative $(-)$, and the objective is to find a clustering that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nairen Cao , Steven Roche , Hsin-Hao Su

Overlapping clusters are common in models of many practical data-segmentation applications. Suppose we are given $n$ elements to be clustered into $k$ possibly overlapping clusters, and an oracle that can interactively answer queries of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Wasim Huleihel , Arya Mazumdar , Muriel Médard , Soumyabrata Pal

Modern graph or network datasets often contain rich structure that goes beyond simple pairwise connections between nodes. This calls for complex representations that can capture, for instance, edges of different types as well as so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson

We study parallel algorithms for correlation clustering. Each pair among $n$ objects is labeled as either "similar" or "dissimilar". The goal is to partition the objects into arbitrarily many clusters while minimizing the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Soheil Behnezhad , Moses Charikar , Weiyun Ma , Li-Yang Tan

We consider the problem of testing graph cluster structure: given access to a graph $G=(V, E)$, can we quickly determine whether the graph can be partitioned into a few clusters with good inner conductance, or is far from any such graph?…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Ashish Chiplunkar , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna , Aida Mousavifar , Yuval Peres

We study sublinear algorithms for two fundamental graph problems, MAXCUT and correlation clustering. Our focus is on constructing core-sets as well as developing streaming algorithms for these problems. Constant space algorithms are known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Aditya Bhaskara , Samira Daruki , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a set of objects with pairwise similarity information. Our aim is to partition these objects into clusters that match this information as closely as possible. More specifically, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jafar Jafarov

In the Correlation Clustering problem we are given $n$ nodes, and a preference for each pair of nodes indicating whether we prefer the two endpoints to be in the same cluster or not. The output is a clustering inducing the minimum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Nick Fischer , Evangelos Kipouridis , Jonas Klausen , Mikkel Thorup

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a complete weighted graph $G$ with its edges labeled as "similar" and "dissimilar" by a noisy binary classifier. For a clustering $\mathcal{C}$ of graph $G$, a similar edge is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jafar Jafarov , Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev

We study the online clustering problem where data items arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm maintains a clustering of data items into similarity classes. Upon arrival of v, the relation between v and previously arrived items is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Claire Mathieu , Ocan Sankur , Warren Schudy

The higher-order correlation clustering problem is an expressive model, and recently, local search heuristics have been proposed for several applications. Certifying optimality, however, is NP-hard and practically hampered already by the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 David Stein , Silvia Di Gregorio , Bjoern Andres

Multi-relational clustering is a challenging task due to the fact that diverse semantic information conveyed in multi-layer graphs is difficult to extract and fuse. Recent methods integrate topology structure and node attribute information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xiaowei Qian , Bingheng Li , Zhao Kang