# unsupervised learning

## Graphon based Clustering and Testing of Networks - Algorithms and Theory

Network-valued data are encountered in a wide range of applications and pose challenges in learning due to their complex structure and absence of vertex correspondence. Typical examples of such problems include classification or grouping of protein …

## Recovery Guarantees for Kernel-based Clustering under Non-parametric Mixture Models

Despite the ubiquity of kernel-based clustering, surprisingly few statistical guarantees exist beyond settings that consider strong structural assumptions on the data generation process. In this work, we take a step towards bridging this gap by …

## Insights into Ordinal Embedding Algorithms - A Systematic Evaluation

The objective of ordinal embedding is to find a Euclidean representation of a set of abstract items, using only answers to triplet comparisons of the form Is item $i$ closer to the item $j$ or item $k$?''. In recent years, numerous algorithms have …

## On the optimality of kernels for high-dimensional clustering

This paper studies the optimality of kernel methods in high-dimensional data clustering. Recent works have studied the large sample performance of kernel clustering in the high-dimensional regime, where Euclidean distance becomes less informative. …