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Many state-of-the-art subspace clustering methods follow a two-step process by first constructing an affinity matrix between data points and then applying spectral clustering to this affinity. Most of the research into these methods focuses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Derek Lim , René Vidal , Benjamin D. Haeffele

Spectral clustering has become one of the most widely used clustering techniques when the structure of the individual clusters is non-convex or highly anisotropic. Yet, despite its immense popularity, there exists fairly little theory about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-16 Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

Consistency is a key property of all statistical procedures analyzing randomly sampled data. Surprisingly, despite decades of work, little is known about consistency of most clustering algorithms. In this paper we investigate consistency of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Ulrike von Luxburg , Mikhail Belkin , Olivier Bousquet

Clustering multivariate time series data is a crucial task in many domains, as it enables the identification of meaningful patterns and groups in time-evolving data. Traditional approaches, such as crisp clustering, rely on the assumption…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-05 Ziling Ma , Ángel López-Oriona , Hernando Ombao , Ying Sun

Spectral clustering, as a popular tool for data clustering, requires an eigen-decomposition step on a given affinity to obtain the spectral embedding. Nevertheless, such a step suffers from the lack of generalizability and scalability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Wei He , Shangzhi Zhang , Chun-Guang Li , Xianbiao Qi , Rong Xiao , Jun Guo

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

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

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

Clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis, and spectral clustering has been recognized as a promising approach to it. Given a graph describing the relationship between data, spectral clustering explores the underlying cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Tomohiko Mizutani

Subspace clustering is to find underlying low-dimensional subspaces and cluster the data points correctly. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-view subspace clustering method. Most existing methods suffer from two critical issues.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mengyuan Zhang , Kai Liu

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular methods for community detection in graphs. A key step in spectral clustering algorithms is the eigen decomposition of the $n{\times}n$ graph Laplacian matrix to extract its $k$ leading…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-10 Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Ambedkar Dukkipati

This paper introduces the equiwide clustering problem, where valid partitions must satisfy intra-cluster dissimilarity constraints. Unlike most existing clustering algorithms, equiwide clustering relies neither on density nor on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jennie Andersen , Brice Chardin , Mohamed Tribak

Multi-view data clustering refers to categorizing a data set by making good use of related information from multiple representations of the data. It becomes important nowadays because more and more data can be collected in a variety of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Yangtao Wang , Lihui Chen

Clustering is a widely used unsupervised learning method for finding structure in the data. However, the resulting clusters are typically presented without any guarantees on their robustness; slightly changing the used data sample or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-02 Andreas Henelius , Kai Puolamäki , Henrik Boström , Panagiotis Papapetrou

Deep clustering outperforms conventional clustering by mutually promoting representation learning and cluster assignment. However, most existing deep clustering methods suffer from two major drawbacks. First, most cluster assignment methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Hanxuan Wang , Na Lu , Qinyang Liu

Clustering multivariate time series (MTS) is challenging due to non-stationary cross-dependencies, noise contamination, and gradual or overlapping state boundaries. We introduce a robust fuzzy clustering framework in the spectral domain…

Applications · Statistics 2025-11-03 Ziling Ma , Mara Sherlin Talento , Ying Sun , Hernando Ombao

The spectral clustering algorithm is often used as a binary clustering method for unclassified data by applying the principal component analysis. To study theoretical properties of the algorithm, the assumption of conditional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Kohei Kawamoto , Yuichi Goto , Koji Tsukuda

Spectral clustering is a popular and effective algorithm designed to find $k$ clusters in a graph $G$. In the classical spectral clustering algorithm, the vertices of $G$ are embedded into $\mathbb{R}^k$ using $k$ eigenvectors of the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peter Macgregor

The present paper is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. While the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs, we present an effective generalization, which we call higher-order spectral clustering. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Andrei Bobu , Maximilien Dreveton