##  [Spectral Clustering](/spectral-clustering) 

  ##  [Spectral Clustering](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/spectral-clustering-0) 

  

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Definition

A clustering method that builds a similarity matrix from pairwise affinities, computes a low-dimensional embedding from the low-frequency orthogonal modes of that matrix, and then applies a standard partitioning algorithm in the embedded space.