Gates et al., "Element-centric clustering comparison unifies overlaps and hierarchy" (2019)

Alexander J. Gates, Ian B. Wood, William P. Hetrick, and Yong-Yeol Ahn, Scientific Reports 9(1), 8574 (2019)
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@article{gates2019element,
    author = {Alexander J. Gates and Ian B. Wood and William P. Hetrick and Yong-Yeol Ahn},
    title = {Element-centric clustering comparison unifies overlaps and hierarchy},
    journal = {Scientific Reports},
    volume = {9},
    number = {1},
    pages = {8574},
    doi = {10.1038/s41598-019-44892-y},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {1706.06136},
    primaryClass = {stat.ML},
    year = {2019},
}

Introduces an element-centric framework for comparing disjoint, overlapping, and hierarchical clusterings. It compares the relationships that each clustering induces around individual elements, avoiding biases in several standard cluster-centric measures.

Element centric clustering similarity, Clustering comparison, Community comparison