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Clustering is one of the main tasks in exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics where the main objective is partitioning observations in groups. Clustering has a broad range of application in varied domains like climate,…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Saptarsi Goswami , Amlan Chakrabarti

The high dimensionality of hyperspectral images often results in the degradation of clustering performance. Due to the powerful ability of deep feature extraction and non-linear feature representation, the clustering algorithm based on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jinguang Sun , Wanli Wang , Xian Wei , Li Fang , Xiaoliang Tang , Yusheng Xu , Hui Yu , Wei Yao

One of the main challenges in data mining is choosing the optimal number of clusters without prior information. Notably, existing methods are usually in the philosophy of cluster validation and hence have underlying assumptions on data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruilin Zhang , Haiyang Zheng , Hongpeng Wang

Cluster analysis plays a very important role in data analysis. In these years, cluster ensemble, as a cluster analysis tool, has drawn much attention for its robustness, stability, and accuracy. Many efforts have been done to combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Xuelong Li , Quanmao Lu , Yongsheng Dong , Dacheng Tao

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular clustering methods. However, how to balance the efficiency and effectiveness of the large-scale spectral clustering with limited computing resources has not been properly solved for a long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hongmin Li , Xiucai Ye , Akira Imakura , Tetsuya Sakurai

In stochastic optimisation, the large number of scenarios required to faithfully represent the underlying uncertainty is often a barrier to finding efficient numerical solutions. This motivates the scenario reduction problem: by find a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Julien Keutchayan , Janosch Ortmann , Walter Rei

In online clustering problems, there is often a large amount of uncertainty over possible cluster assignments that cannot be resolved until more data are observed. This difficulty is compounded when clusters follow complex distributions, as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-17 Connie Trojan , Pavel Myshkov , Paul Fearnhead , James Hensman , Tom Minka , Christopher Nemeth

Numerous papers ask how difficult it is to cluster data. We suggest that the more relevant and interesting question is how difficult it is to cluster data sets {\em that can be clustered well}. More generally, despite the ubiquity and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Amit Daniely , Nati Linial , Michael Saks

Clustering is a standard approach for achieving efficient and scalable performance in wireless sensor networks. Traditionally, clustering algorithms aim at generating a number of disjoint clusters that satisfy some criteria. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Moustafa Youssef , Adel Youssef , Mohamed Younis

Roughly speaking, clustering evolving networks aims at detecting structurally dense subgroups in networks that evolve over time. This implies that the subgroups we seek for also evolve, which results in many additional tasks compared to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Tanja Hartmann , Andrea Kappes , Dorothea Wagner

Many scientific problems involve data that is embedded in a space with periodic boundary conditions. This can for instance be related to an inherent cyclic or rotational symmetry in the data or a spatially extended periodicity. When…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xander M. de Wit , Alessandro Gabbana

The advent of the big data paradigm has transformed how industries manage and analyze information, ushering in an era of unprecedented data volume, velocity, and variety. Within this landscape, mixed-data clustering has become a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Guillaume Guerard , Sonia Djebali

We propose an algorithm for clustering high dimensional data. If $P$ features for $N$ objects are represented in an $N\times P$ matrix ${\bf X}$, where $N\ll P$, the method is based on exploiting the cluster-dependent structure of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-05 Shahina Rahman , Valen E. Johnson

Clustering algorithms became an essential part of the neurophysiological data analysis toolbox in the last twenty five years. Many problems, from the definition of cell types/groups based on morphological, molecular and physiological data…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-23 Louise Martineau , Christophe Pouzat , Ségolen Geffray

This work proposes a hierarchical clustering algorithm for high-dimensional datasets using the cyclic space of reversible finite cellular automata. In cellular automaton (CA) based clustering, if two objects belong to the same cycle, they…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Baby C. J. , Kamalika Bhattacharjee

Online deep clustering refers to the joint use of a feature extraction network and a clustering model to assign cluster labels to each new data point or batch as it is processed. While faster and more versatile than offline methods, online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Cluster analysis which focuses on the grouping and categorization of similar elements is widely used in various fields of research. Inspired by the phenomenon of atomic fission, a novel density-based clustering algorithm is proposed in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Shizhan Lu

We present CPO, a fast and robust algorithm that localizes a 2D panorama with respect to a 3D point cloud of a scene possibly containing changes. To robustly handle scene changes, our approach deviates from conventional feature point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Junho Kim , Hojun Jang , Changwoon Choi , Young Min Kim

Clustering is a fundamental analysis tool aiming at classifying data points into groups based on their similarity or distance. It has found successful applications in all natural and social sciences, including biology, physics, economics,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Wen-Bo Xie , Yan-Li Lee , Cong Wang , Duan-Bing Chen , Tao Zhou

Given a point set S and an unknown metric d on S, we study the problem of efficiently partitioning S into k clusters while querying few distances between the points. In our model we assume that we have access to one versus all queries that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Konstantin Voevodski , Maria-Florina Balcan , Heiko Roglin , Shang-Hua Teng , Yu Xia