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Correlation Clustering in Constant Many Parallel Rounds
Vincent Cohen-Addad · Silvio Lattanzi · Slobodan Mitrović · Ashkan Norouzi-Fard · Nikos Parotsidis · Jakub Tarnawski

Thu Jul 22 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PDT) @
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Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of disagreements. In this work we propose a massively parallel computation (MPC) algorithm for this problem that is considerably faster than prior work. In particular, our algorithm uses machines with memory sublinear in the number of nodes in the graph and returns a constant approximation while running only for a constant number of rounds. To the best of our knowledge, our algorithm is the first that can provably approximate a clustering problem using only a constant number of MPC rounds in the sublinear memory regime. We complement our analysis with an experimental scalability evaluation of our techniques.

Keywords: Clustering · Algorithms

Author Information

Vincent Cohen-Addad (Google)
Silvio Lattanzi (Google)
Slobodan Mitrović (MIT)
Ashkan Norouzi-Fard (Google)
Nikos Parotsidis (Google)
Jakub Tarnawski (Microsoft Research)

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