Roberto Fern ndez and Aldo Procacci Cluster expansion for abstract polymer models. New bounds from an old approach (44K, LaTeX) ABSTRACT. We revisit the classical approach to cluster expansions, based on tree graphs, and establish a new convergence condition that improves those by Koteck\'y-Preiss and Dobrushin, as we show in some examples. The strategy is to better exploit a well known tree-graph expression, due to Penrose.