arXiv Machine Learning

Exact Recovery by Neighborhood Smoothing in Directed Stochastic Block Models

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

Provably Finding a Hidden Dense Submatrix among Many Planted Dense Submatrices via Convex Programming

arXiv:2601. 03946v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider the densest submatrix problem, which seeks the submatrix of fixed size of a given binary matrix that contains the most nonzero entries.

By Valentine Olanubi (University of Alabama, Department of Mathematics), Phineas Agar (University of Alabama, Department of Mathematics), Brendan Ames (University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Doubly Stochastic Adaptive Neighbors Clustering via the Marcus Mapping

The paper introduces the Marcus mapping, an extension of Marcus theorem that allows certain sparse symmetric matrices to be transformed into doubly stochastic symmetric matrices via diagonal matrices. Leveraging this mapping, the authors propose the Doubly Stochastic Adaptive Neighbors Clustering algorithm (ANCMM), which incorporates rank constraints to ensure the learned similarity graph naturally partitions into the desired number of clusters. Experiments demonstrate ANCMM’s effectiveness compared to state‑of‑the‑art methods, and the authors also establish a connection between the Marcus mapping and a specific optimal transport problem.

By Jinghui Yuan, Chusheng Zeng, Fangyuan Xie, Zhe Cao, Mulin Chen, Rong Wang, Feiping Nie, Yuan Yuan