The current (September, 2017) issue of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) contains:
- "Clustering with Hypergraphs: The case for large hyperedges," by P. Purkait, T.-J. Chin, A. Sadri and D. Suter, 39(9):1697–1711 (2017)
on the use of hypergraphs for pattern clustering (and pattern classification).