Abstract

We consider the following clustering problem: we have a complete graph on # vertices (items), where each edge ### ## is labeled either # or depending on whether # and # have been deemed to be similar or different. The goal is to produce a partition of the vertices (a clustering) that agrees as much as possible with the edge labels. That is, we want a clustering that maximizes the number of # edges within clusters, plus the number of edges between clusters (equivalently, minimizes the number of disagreements: the number of edges inside clusters plus the number of # edges between clusters). This formulation is motivated from a document clustering problem in which one has a pairwise similarity function # learned from past data, and the goal is to partition the current set of documents in a way that correlates with # as much as possible; it can also be viewed as a kind of "agnostic learning" problem. An interesting

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