A MODEL-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR SEMI-SUPERVISED CLUSTERING AND COMMUNITY DETECTION
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In model-based clustering, we aim to separate data samples into meaningful groups by optimizing the fit of some observed data to a mathematical model. The recent adoption of model-based clustering has allowed practitioners to model complex patterns in data and explore a wide range of applications. This thesis investigates model-driven approaches for community detection and semisupervised clustering by adopting a maximum-likelihood perspective. We first focus on exploiting constrained optimization techniques to present a new model for community detection with stochastic block models (SBMs). We show that the proposed constrained formulation reveals communities structurally different from those obtained with classical community detection models. We then study a setting where inaccurate annotations are provided as must-link and cannot-link relations, and propose a novel semi-supervised clustering model. Our experimental analysis shows that incorporating partial supervision and appropriately encoding prior user knowledge significantly enhance clustering performance. Finally, we examine the problem of semi-supervised clustering in the presence of unreliable class labels. We focus on the case where groups of untrustworthy annotators deliberately misclassify data samples and propose a model to handle such incorrect statements.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it