The Mathematics and Foundations behind Spectral Clustering

Jack Ka-Chun, Yu
Towards AI
Published in
13 min readMar 17, 2024

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Spectral clustering is a graph-theoretic clustering technique that utilizes the connectivity of data points to perform clustering and is a technique of unsupervised learning.

Clustering

There are 2 main types algorithms for clustering:

  • Compactness Clustering Algorithm
  • Connectivity Clustering Algorithm

Compactness

Data points that lie close to each other are divided into the same cluster and…

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M.S., Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan; A data science enthusiast; Hope to make a name for myself in DS