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Many methods have been developed for data clustering, such as k-means, expectation maximization and algorithms based on graph theory. In this latter case, graphs are generally constructed by taking into account the Euclidian distance as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-27 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Although distance measures are used in many machine learning algorithms, the literature on the context-independent selection and evaluation of distance measures is limited in the sense that prior knowledge is used. In cluster analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Michael C. Thrun

Datasets in high-dimension do not typically form clusters in their original space; the issue is worse when the number of points in the dataset is small. We propose a low-computation method to find statistically significant clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-24 Alden Bradford , Tarun Yellamraju , Mireille Boutin

Clustering of high-dimensional data sets is a growing need in artificial intelligence, machine learning and pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose a new clustering method based on a combinatorial-topological approach applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mauricio Toledo-Acosta , Luis Ángel Ramos-García , Jorge Hermosillo-Valadez

The discrete distribution is often used to describe complex instances in machine learning, such as images, sequences, and documents. Traditionally, clustering of discrete distributions (D2C) has been approached using Wasserstein barycenter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zixiao Wang , Dong Qiao , Jicong Fan

Spectral clustering requires the time-consuming decomposition of the Laplacian matrix of the similarity graph, thus limiting its applicability to large datasets. To improve the efficiency of spectral clustering, a top-down approach was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zhichang Xu , Zhiguo Long , Hua Meng

We consider the problem of subspace clustering: given points that lie on or near the union of many low-dimensional linear subspaces, recover the subspaces. To this end, one first identifies sets of points close to the same subspace and uses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-03 Dohyung Park , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

In this work, the possibility of clustering correlated random variables was examined, both because of their mutual similarity and because of their similarity to the principal components. The k-means algorithm and spectral algorithms were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Zenon Gniazdowski , Dawid Kaliszewski

Spectral clustering is one of the most prominent clustering approaches. The distance-based similarity is the most widely used method for spectral clustering. However, people have already noticed that this is not suitable for multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hengrui Wang , Yubo Zhang , Mingzhi Chen , Tong Yang

Popular clustering algorithms based on usual distance functions (e.g., Euclidean distance) often suffer in high dimension, low sample size (HDLSS) situations, where concentration of pairwise distances has adverse effects on their…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-03 Soham Sarkar , Anil K. Ghosh

Spectral Method is a commonly used scheme to cluster data points lying close to Union of Subspaces by first constructing a Random Geometry Graph, called Subspace Clustering. This paper establishes a theory to analyze this method. Based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

This paper proposes a new distance metric between clusterings that incorporates information about the spatial distribution of points and clusters. Our approach builds on the idea of a Hilbert space-based representation of clusters as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Parasaran Raman , Jeff M. Phillips , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

In high-dimension, low-sample size (HDLSS) data, it is not always true that closeness of two objects reflects a hidden cluster structure. We point out the important fact that it is not the closeness, but the "values" of distance that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-30 Yoshikazu Terada

As a kind of basic machine learning method, clustering algorithms group data points into different categories based on their similarity or distribution. We present a clustering algorithm by finding hyper-planes to distinguish the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Luhong Diao , Jinying Gao1 , Manman Deng

Clustering is widely used in unsupervised learning to find homogeneous groups of observations within a dataset. However, clustering mixed-type data remains a challenge, as few existing approaches are suited for this task. This study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Badih Ghattas , Alvaro Sanchez San-Benito

In this paper we tackle the issue of clustering trajectories of geolocalized observations. Using clustering technics based on the choice of a distance between the observations, we first provide a comprehensive review of the different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-21 Philippe Besse , Brendan Guillouet , Jean-Michel Loubes , Royer François

Density-based clustering methods often surpass centroid-based counterparts, when addressing data with noise or arbitrary data distributions common in real-world problems. In this study, we reveal a key property intrinsic to density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Oron Nir , Jay Tenenbaum , Ariel Shamir

This paper studies the subspace clustering problem in which data points collected from high-dimensional ambient space lie in a union of linear subspaces. Subspace clustering becomes challenging when the dimension of intersection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Weiwei Li , Mostafa Rahmani , Ping Li

Several methods have been proposed to estimate the number of clusters in a dataset; the basic ideal behind all of them has been to study an index that measures inter-cluster separation and intra-cluster cohesion over a range of cluster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Bhaskar Mukhoty , Ruchir Gupta , Y. N. Singh

The two most extended density-based approaches to clustering are surely mixture model clustering and modal clustering. In the mixture model approach, the density is represented as a mixture and clusters are associated to the different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-16 José E. Chacón