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20162026
most citedUnifying Sparsest Cut, Cluster Deletion, and Modularity Clustering Objectives with Correlation Clustering

69 citations · 180 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

cs.DS2026

Query Complexity of Densest Sub(hyper)graph Problems

Sinan G. Aksoy, Eli Friedman, Nate Veldt +1

Rubinstein et al. introduce the study of connectivity and minimum cut problems in the cut query model, where an algorithm can only access the edges of a graph through CUT queries.…

cs.DS2026

An Improved Combinatorial Algorithm for Edge-Colored Clustering in Hypergraphs

Seongjune Han, Nate Veldt

Many complex systems and datasets are characterized by multiway interactions of different categories, and can be modeled as edge-colored hypergraphs. We focus on clustering such da…

cs.DS2026

Better Learning-Augmented Spanning Tree Algorithms via Metric Forest Completion

Nate Veldt, Thomas Stanley, Benjamin W. Priest +5

We present improved learning-augmented algorithms for finding an approximate minimum spanning tree (MST) for points in an arbitrary metric space. Our work follows a recent framewor…

cs.DS2025

A Simple and Fast -approximation for Constrained Correlation Clustering

Nate Veldt

In Constrained Correlation Clustering, the goal is to cluster a complete signed graph in a way that minimizes the number of negative edges inside clusters plus the number of positi…

cs.DS2025

The Densest SWAMP problem: subhypergraphs with arbitrary monotonic partial edge rewards

Vedangi Bengali, Nikolaj Tatti, Iiro Kumpulainen +2

We consider a generalization of the densest subhypergraph problem where nonnegative rewards are given for including partial hyperedges in a dense subhypergraph. Prior work addresse…

cs.DS2025

Edge-Colored Clustering in Hypergraphs: Beyond Minimizing Unsatisfied Edges

Alex Crane, Thomas Stanley, Blair D. Sullivan +1

We consider a framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, where the goal is to cluster (equivalently, to color) objects based on the primary type of multiway interactions th…

cs.DS2025

Approximate Tree Completion and Learning-Augmented Algorithms for Metric Minimum Spanning Trees

Nate Veldt, Thomas Stanley, Benjamin W. Priest +4

Finding a minimum spanning tree (MST) for points in an arbitrary metric space is a fundamental primitive for hierarchical clustering and many other ML tasks, but this takes $Ω(…

cs.DS2024

On the tractability and approximability of non-submodular cardinality-based - cut problems in hypergraphs

Vedangi Bengali, Nate Veldt

A minimum - cut in a hypergraph is a bipartition of vertices that separates two nodes and while minimizing a hypergraph cut function. The cardinality-based hypergraph…

cs.CC2024

Improved Hardness and Approximations for Cardinality-Based Minimum - Cuts Problems in Hypergraphs

Florian Adriaens, Vedangi Bengali, Iiro Kumpulainen +2

In hypergraphs, an edge that crosses a cut (i.e., a bipartition of nodes) can be split in several ways, depending on how many nodes are placed on each side of the cut. A cardinalit…

cs.DS2024★ 2 cited

Combinatorial Approximations for Cluster Deletion: Simpler, Faster, and Better

Vicente Balmaseda, Ying Xu, Yixin Cao +1

Cluster deletion is an NP-hard graph clustering objective with applications in computational biology and social network analysis, where the goal is to delete a minimum number of ed…

cs.DS2023★ 2 cited

Densest Subhypergraph: Negative Supermodular Functions and Strongly Localized Methods

Yufan Huang, David F. Gleich, Nate Veldt

Dense subgraph discovery is a fundamental primitive in graph and hypergraph analysis which among other applications has been used for real-time story detection on social media and…

cs.DS2023★ 1 cited

Faster Approximation Algorithms for Parameterized Graph Clustering and Edge Labeling

Vedangi Bengali, Nate Veldt

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis where the goal is to detect sets of nodes that are well-connected to each other but sparsely connected to the rest of the…

cs.LG2023

On the Optimal Recovery of Graph Signals

Simon Foucart, Chunyang Liao, Nate Veldt

Learning a smooth graph signal from partially observed data is a well-studied task in graph-based machine learning. We consider this task from the perspective of optimal recovery,…

cs.DS2023★ 1 cited

Overlapping and Robust Edge-Colored Clustering in Hypergraphs

Alex Crane, Brian Lavallee, Blair D. Sullivan +1

A recent trend in data mining has explored (hyper)graph clustering algorithms for data with categorical relationship types. Such algorithms have applications in the analysis of soc…

math.CO2023

Seven open problems in applied combinatorics

Sinan G. Aksoy, Ryan Bennink, Yuzhou Chen +10

We present and discuss seven different open problems in applied combinatorics. The application areas relevant to this compilation include quantum computing, algorithmic differentia…

cs.DS2023

Cut-matching Games for Generalized Hypergraph Ratio Cuts

Nate Veldt

Hypergraph clustering is a basic algorithmic primitive for analyzing complex datasets and systems characterized by multiway interactions, such as group email conversations, groups…

cs.DS2022

Growing a Random Maximal Independent Set Produces a 2-approximate Vertex Cover

Nate Veldt

This paper presents a fast and simple new 2-approximation algorithm for minimum weighted vertex cover. The unweighted version of this algorithm is equivalent to a well-known greedy…

cs.DS2022★ 1 cited

Optimal LP Rounding and Linear-Time Approximation Algorithms for Clustering Edge-Colored Hypergraphs

Nate Veldt

We study the approximability of an existing framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, which is closely related to chromatic correlation clustering and is motivated by mach…

cs.DS2021

Correlation Clustering via Strong Triadic Closure Labeling: Fast Approximation Algorithms and Practical Lower Bounds

Nate Veldt

Correlation clustering is a widely studied framework for clustering based on pairwise similarity and dissimilarity scores, but its best approximation algorithms rely on impractical…

cs.LG2021

Approximate Decomposable Submodular Function Minimization for Cardinality-Based Components

Nate Veldt, Austin R. Benson, Jon Kleinberg

Minimizing a sum of simple submodular functions of limited support is a special case of general submodular function minimization that has seen numerous applications in machine lear…

cs.SI2021

fauci-email: a json digest of Anthony Fauci's released emails

Austin R. Benson, Nate Veldt, David F. Gleich

A collection of over 3000 pages of emails sent by Anthony Fauci and his staff were released in an effort to understand the United States government response to the COVID-19 pandemi…

cs.DS2021

The Generalized Mean Densest Subgraph Problem

Nate Veldt, Austin R. Benson, Jon Kleinberg

Finding dense subgraphs of a large graph is a standard problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applicatio…

cs.SI2021★ 1 cited

Combinatorial Characterizations and Impossibilities for Higher-order Homophily

Nate Veldt, Austin R. Benson, Jon Kleinberg

Homophily is the seemingly ubiquitous tendency for people to connect and interact with other individuals who are similar to them. This is a well-documented principle and is fundame…

cs.SI2021

Generative hypergraph clustering: from blockmodels to modularity

Philip S. Chodrow, Nate Veldt, Austin R. Benson

Hypergraphs are a natural modeling paradigm for a wide range of complex relational systems. A standard analysis task is to identify clusters of closely related or densely interconn…