Towards Robust and Scalable Density-based Clustering via Graph Propagation

arXiv:2605.00390 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-05-01

Updated: 2026-08-26

Code: https://github.com/lmcinnes/pynndescent

Terminology

• Clustering — 110× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 34× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Modularity — 33× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Core — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Graph Construction — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Density-Aware Neighborhood Expansion — 6× in this paper
• Spectral clustering — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Label Propagation Algorithm — 4× in this paper
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Density Peak Clustering — 3× in this paper
• Computational overhead — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Graph — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adjacency Matrix — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cluster expansion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Random Projection Trees — 1× in this paper
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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