arXiv Machine Learning

GPU-Accelerated Construction of the Gabriel Graph: Parallelization Strategies and Applications to Large-Margin Classification and Graph-Based Clustering

The paper introduces GPU-based parallelization techniques for constructing the Gabriel graph, a proximity graph used in computational geometry and machine learning. By mapping thread indices to vertex pairs, employing a bitmask-based edge-list construction, and using thread coarsening, the authors achieve up to 8484× speedups over a CPU baseline without sacrificing accuracy. The accelerated graph enables efficient large‑margin classification and a new density‑aware clustering method that competes with DBSCAN while eliminating the need for a density radius parameter.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Inductive Correlation Clustering with Graph Neural Networks

The paper introduces Inductive Correlation Clustering, a new framework that uses Graph Neural Networks to solve the Correlation Clustering problem on unseen graph instances. By learning common structural patterns and node features, the method generalizes to new graphs with minimal computational overhead, achieving inference times up to five orders of magnitude faster while maintaining an approximation ratio within about 10% of the best baseline. It also demonstrates competitive performance on standard transductive benchmarks and serves as an efficient learnable pooling layer for graph classification tasks.

By Francesco Paolo Nerini, Francesco Bonchi, Arijit Khan, Andr\'e Panisson
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Geometric Flow enhanced Graph Coarsening

The paper introduces RicciPool, a graph pooling method that incorporates higher‑order connectivity via Ollivier‑Ricci curvature to reweight edges before spectral clustering. Unlike traditional pooling approaches that focus only on rough topology, RicciPool leverages local connection information to improve cluster assignment. Experiments on protein and social network datasets demonstrate its effectiveness.

By Chaoqun Fei, Guoxuan Li, Tinglve Zhou, Chuanqing Wang, Yangyang Li
arXiv AI
Oct 7

Towards One-for-All Foundation Model for Attributed Graph Clustering

The paper introduces OFAG, a foundation model designed for attributed graph clustering that can be trained once and applied to diverse graphs without graph‑specific tuning. It learns a reusable clustering strategy from synthetic graphs and uses a dimension‑agnostic encoder to handle varying feature spaces, producing clustering‑friendly node representations in a single forward pass. Across ten datasets, a frozen OFAG model outperforms baselines in both speed and clustering quality, and the authors provide code and pretrained checkpoints for easy adoption.

By Yunhui Liu, Xudong Jin, Kang Zhang, Danshuo An, Yu Xing, Te Song, Jia Liu, Tieke He
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

Accelerating Dynamic Graph Clustering on GPU Architectures with cuGraph

This work addresses community detection in temporal networks through GPU-accelerated extensions of spectral clustering and modularity-based algorithms originally designed for static graphs. Built on the NVIDIA RAPIDS ecosystem, the framework enables the characterization and tracking of communities in snapshot-based dynamic graphs, either by Leiden greedy optimization with multi-GPU support via Dask-based workload distribution, or eigendecomposition of a symmetric Bethe-Hessian operator.

arXiv AI
Sep 17

Universal NP-Hardness of Clustering under General Utilities

The paper introduces the Universal Clustering Problem (UCP), a framework that captures the optimisation core common to many clustering methods by maximizing a polynomial‑time computable partition utility over a finite metric space. It proves UCP is NP‑hard through reductions from graph colouring and exact cover by 3‑sets, showing that popular algorithms such as k‑means, GMMs, DBSCAN, spectral clustering, and affinity propagation inherit this intractability. The authors argue that this unified hardness explains typical failure modes—like local optima and greedy merge traps—and suggest moving toward stability‑aware objectives and interaction‑driven formulations with explicit guarantees.

By Angshul Majumdar