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The most widely used internal measure for clustering evaluation is the silhouette coefficient, whose naive computation requires a quadratic number of distance calculations, which is clearly unfeasible for massive datasets. Surprisingly,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Federico Altieri , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Fabio Vandin

We propose a novel perspective on varied-density clustering for high-dimensional data by framing it as a label propagation process in neighborhood graphs that adapt to local density variations. Our method formally connects density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ninh Pham , Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs

We develop a novel parallel decomposition strategy for unweighted, undirected graphs, based on growing disjoint connected clusters from batches of centers progressively selected from yet uncovered nodes. With respect to similar previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

Dasgupta recently introduced a cost function for the hierarchical clustering of a set of points given pairwise similarities between them. He showed that this function is NP-hard to optimize, but a top-down recursive partitioning heuristic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Moses Charikar , Vaggos Chatziafratis

Discovering and clustering subspaces in high-dimensional data is a fundamental problem of machine learning with a wide range of applications in data mining, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Earlier methods divided the problem into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-30 Maryam Jaberi , Marianna Pensky , Hassan Foroosh

This work aims to improve the sample efficiency of parallel large-scale ranking and selection (R&S) problems by leveraging correlation information. We modify the commonly used "divide and conquer" framework in parallel computing by adding a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-16 Zishi Zhang , Yijie Peng

Subspace clustering algorithms are notorious for their scalability issues because building and processing large affinity matrices are demanding. In this paper, we introduce a method that simultaneously learns an embedding space along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Tong Zhang , Pan Ji , Mehrtash Harandi , Richard Hartley , Ian Reid

Attributed graphs model real networks by enriching their nodes with attributes accounting for properties. Several techniques have been proposed for partitioning these graphs into clusters that are homogeneous with respect to both semantic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Alessandro Baroni , Alessio Conte , Maurizio Patrignani , Salvatore Ruggieri

Divide-and-conquer is a general strategy to deal with large scale problems. It is typically applied to generate ensemble instances, which potentially limits the problem size it can handle. Additionally, the data are often divided by random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Ke Alexander Wang , Xinran Bian , Pan Liu , Donghui Yan

The well-known clustering algorithm of Miller, Peng, and Xu (SPAA 2013) is useful for many applications, including low-diameter decomposition and low-energy distributed algorithms. One nice property of their clustering, shown in previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yi-Jun Chang , Varsha Dani , Thomas P. Hayes

Feature hashing, also known as {\em the hashing trick}, introduced by Weinberger et al. (2009), is one of the key techniques used in scaling-up machine learning algorithms. Loosely speaking, feature hashing uses a random sparse projection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Casper Benjamin Freksen , Lior Kamma , Kasper Green Larsen

The discrete distribution clustering algorithm, namely D2-clustering, has demonstrated its usefulness in image classification and annotation where each object is represented by a bag of weighed vectors. The high computational complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Yu Zhang , James Z. Wang , Jia Li

This paper investigates graph clustering in the planted cluster model in the presence of {\em small clusters}. Traditional results dictate that for an algorithm to provably correctly recover the clusters, {\em all} clusters must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Nir Ailon , Yudong Chen , Xu Huan

Clustering is indispensable for data analysis in many scientific disciplines. Detecting clusters from heavy noise remains challenging, particularly for high-dimensional sparse data. Based on graph-theoretic framework, the present paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Deli Zhao , Xiaoou Tang

We propose a method to reconstruct and cluster incomplete high-dimensional data lying in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Exploring the sparse representation model, we jointly estimate the missing data while imposing the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 João Carvalho , Manuel Marques , João P. Costeira

Federated Clustering (FC) is an emerging and promising solution in exploring data distribution patterns from distributed and privacy-protected data in an unsupervised manner. Existing FC methods implicitly rely on the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yue Zhang , Chuanlong Qiu , Xinfa Liao , Yiqun Zhang

In this article, we advance divide-and-conquer strategies for solving the community detection problem in networks. We propose two algorithms which perform clustering on a number of small subgraphs and finally patches the results into a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-21 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Peter J. Bickel

As one type of efficient unsupervised learning methods, clustering algorithms have been widely used in data mining and knowledge discovery with noticeable advantages. However, clustering algorithms based on density peak have limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jianguo Chen , Philip S. Yu

We study a heterogeneous two-tier wireless sensor network in which N heterogeneous access points (APs) collect sensing data from densely distributed sensors and then forward the data to M heterogeneous fusion centers (FCs). This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi , Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

Hashing method maps similar data to binary hashcodes with smaller hamming distance, and it has received a broad attention due to its low storage cost and fast retrieval speed. However, the existing limitations make the present algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Shifeng Zhang , Jianmin Li , Jinma Guo , Bo Zhang