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David Uminsky

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NeurIPS Conference 2013 Conference Paper

Multiclass Total Variation Clustering

Xavier Bresson
Thomas Laurent
David Uminsky
James von Brecht

Ideas from the image processing literature have recently motivated a new set of clustering algorithms that rely on the concept of total variation. While these algorithms perform well for bi-partitioning tasks, their recursive extensions yield unimpressive results for multiclass clustering tasks. This paper presents a general framework for multiclass total variation clustering that does not rely on recursion. The results greatly outperform previous total variation algorithms and compare well with state-of-the-art NMF approaches.

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NeurIPS Conference 2012 Conference Paper

Convergence and Energy Landscape for Cheeger Cut Clustering

Xavier Bresson
Thomas Laurent
David Uminsky
James Brecht

Unsupervised clustering of scattered, noisy and high-dimensional data points is an important and difficult problem. Continuous relaxations of balanced cut problems yield excellent clustering results. This paper provides rigorous convergence results for two algorithms that solve the relaxed Cheeger Cut minimization. The first algorithm is a new steepest descent algorithm and the second one is a slight modification of the Inverse Power Method algorithm \cite{pro: HeinBuhler10OneSpec}. While the steepest descent algorithm has better theoretical convergence properties, in practice both algorithm perform equally. We also completely characterize the local minima of the relaxed problem in terms of the original balanced cut problem, and relate this characterization to the convergence of the algorithms.

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