Paper improves clustering risk bounds for kernel k-means.
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The study proves the existence and properties of isoperimetric clusters in Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry.
New bounds for convex clustering under graph connectivity.
Convex clustering can only learn convex clusters, with significant gaps between clusters.
New bounds improve linkage methods for clustering, distinguishing complete-link from single-link.
We present a nonparametric method for selecting informative features in high-dimensional clustering problems. We start with a screening step that uses a test for multimodality. Then we apply kernel density estimation and mode clustering to the selected features. The output of the method consists of a list of relevant f…
We formulate weighted graph clustering as a prediction problem: given a subset of edge weights we analyze the ability of graph clustering to predict the remaining edge weights. This formulation enables practical and theoretical comparison of different approaches to graph clustering as well as comparison of graph cluste…
Study exact partition recovery with same-cluster oracle, bounded error.
Localized sum-of-norms clustering separates balls in data.
New computational lower bounds for clustering and related problems.
A new k-means algorithm using cover trees accelerates clustering.
Paper establishes universal lower bounds and optimal rates for clustering sub-exponential mixture models.
The paper introduces explainable -means with axis-parallel hyperplanes for -dimensional data.
New method speeds up k-means clustering using sketch-and-solve.
Beyond existing multi-view clustering, this paper studies a more realistic clustering scenario, referred to as incomplete multi-view clustering, where a number of data instances are missing in certain views. To tackle this problem, we explore spectral perturbation theory. In this work, we show a strong link between per…
Density mode clustering is a nonparametric clustering method. The clusters are the basins of attraction of the modes of a density estimator. We study the risk of mode-based clustering. We show that the clustering risk over the cluster cores --- the regions where the density is high --- is very small even in high dimens…
The classical -means algorithm for partitioning points in into clusters is one of the most popular and widely spread clustering methods. The need to respect prescribed lower bounds on the cluster sizes has been observed in many scientific and business applications. In this paper, we present an…
New clustering method for exponential family data.
Algorithm clusters mixtures with bounded covariances under specific separation conditions.
Paper bounds subspace estimator error from noisy projections.
Kernelized convex clustering handles non-linear and non-convex data.
We study the connections between spectral clustering and the problems of maximum margin clustering, and estimation of the components of level sets of a density function. Specifically, we obtain bounds on the eigenvectors of graph Laplacian matrices in terms of the between cluster separation, and within cluster connecti…
Overlapping clusters are common in models of many practical data-segmentation applications. Suppose we are given elements to be clustered into possibly overlapping clusters, and an oracle that can interactively answer queries of the form "do elements and belong to the same cluster?" The goal is to recov…
Study clusters distributions with known or unknown clusters using distribution testing.
Multilayer graphs are commonly used for representing different relations between entities and handling heterogeneous data processing tasks. New challenges arise in multilayer graph clustering for assigning clusters to a common multilayer node set and for combining information from each layer. This paper presents a theo…
New property identifies arithmetic lattices from nonuniform lattices.
New lower bounds show challenges in clustering in moderate dimensions.
Construct locally minimizing -clusters with prescribed asymptotic geometry.
Empty core found in max-loss non-centroid clustering.
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 performance guarantees for spectral clustering. This issue is partly due to the…
Biological and social systems consist of myriad interacting units. The interactions can be represented in the form of a graph or network. Measurements of these graphs can reveal the underlying structure of these interactions, which provides insight into the systems that generated the graphs. Moreover, in applications s…
Two new algorithms improve online clustering of bandits by accelerating cluster identification without strong assumptions.
In correlation clustering, we are given objects together with a binary similarity score between each pair of them. The goal is to partition the objects into clusters so to minimise the disagreements with the scores. In this work we investigate correlation clustering as an active learning problem: each similarity sc…
End-to-end deep learning for multi-view clustering improves accuracy across various data types.
In this paper we study the problem of correlation clustering under fairness constraints. In the classic correlation clustering problem, we are given a complete graph where each edge is labeled positive or negative. The goal is to obtain a clustering of the vertices that minimizes disagreements -- the number of negative…
New algorithm IAC recovers hidden communities in labeled SBM with optimal performance.
In many applications we want to find the number of clusters in a dataset. A common approach is to use the penalized k-means algorithm with an additive penalty term linear in the number of clusters. An open problem is estimating the value of the coefficient of the penalty term. Since estimating the value of the coeffici…
We study clustering algorithms based on neighborhood graphs on a random sample of data points. The question we ask is how such a graph should be constructed in order to obtain optimal clustering results. Which type of neighborhood graph should one choose, mutual k-nearest neighbor or symmetric k-nearest neighbor? What …
The paper analyzes the generalization performance of spectral clustering algorithms and proposes new methods to improve their effectiveness.
CDL index improves clustering validation for non-convex data.
Integrates VAEs into EM for deep clustering and generation.
We propose a general variational framework of fair clustering, which integrates an original Kullback-Leibler (KL) fairness term with a large class of clustering objectives, including prototype or graph based. Fundamentally different from the existing combinatorial and spectral solutions, our variational multi-term appr…
New method identifies cluster representatives with minimal pulls.
Spectral clustering is a widely studied problem, yet its complexity is prohibitive for dynamic graphs of even modest size. We claim that it is possible to reuse information of past cluster assignments to expedite computation. Our approach builds on a recent idea of sidestepping the main bottleneck of spectral clusterin…
Unified framework for differentiable graph partitioning with probabilistic cuts.
This paper introduces Bounded Fuzzy Possibilistic Method (BFPM) by addressing several issues that previous clustering/classification methods have not considered. In fuzzy clustering, object's membership values should sum to 1. Hence, any object may obtain full membership in at most one cluster. Possibilistic clustering…
Polynomial-time algorithm finds planted hypercube vectors in Gaussian mixtures.
The only input to attain the portfolio weights of global minimum variance portfolio (GMVP) is the covariance matrix of returns of assets being considered for investment. Since the population covariance matrix is not known, investors use historical data to estimate it. Even though sample covariance matrix is an unbiased…