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Hierarchical clustering is one of the most powerful solutions to the problem of clustering, on the grounds that it performs a multi scale organization of the data. In recent years, research on hierarchical clustering methods has attracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Antonia Korba

Data clustering is the process of identifying natural groupings or clusters within multidimensional data based on some similarity measure. Clustering is a fundamental process in many different disciplines. Hence, researchers from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Sibei Yang , Liangde Tao , Bingchen Gong

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

Mixed data comprises both numeric and categorical features, and mixed datasets occur frequently in many domains, such as health, finance, and marketing. Clustering is often applied to mixed datasets to find structures and to group similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Amir Ahmad , Shehroz S. Khan

Clustering is a widely used technique in data mining applications for discovering patterns in underlying data. Most traditional clustering algorithms are limited to handling datasets that contain either numeric or categorical attributes.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

This paper introduces {\em fusion subspace clustering}, a novel method to learn low-dimensional structures that approximate large scale yet highly incomplete data. The main idea is to assign each datum to a subspace of its own, and minimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Usman Mahmood , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Recent advances in large language models enable documents to be represented as dense semantic embeddings, supporting similarity-based operations over large text collections. However, many web-scale systems still rely on flat clustering or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Thomas Haschka , Joseph Bakarji

Clustering is a fundamental machine learning task which has been widely studied in the literature. Classic clustering methods follow the assumption that data are represented as features in a vectorized form through various representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Sheng Zhou , Hongjia Xu , Zhuonan Zheng , Jiawei Chen , Zhao li , Jiajun Bu , Jia Wu , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu , Martin Ester

Network clustering reveals the organization of a network or corresponding complex system with elements represented as vertices and interactions as edges in a (directed, weighted) graph. Although the notion of clustering can be somewhat…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Yongjin Park , Joel S. Bader

Clustering algorithms aim to organize data into groups or clusters based on the inherent patterns and similarities within the data. They play an important role in today's life, such as in marketing and e-commerce, healthcare, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hui Yin , Amir Aryani , Stephen Petrie , Aishwarya Nambissan , Aland Astudillo , Shengyuan Cao

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 can be used to extract insights from data or to verify some of the assumptions held by the domain experts, namely data segmentation. In the literature, few methods can be applied in clustering qualitative values using the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Diogo Seca , João Mendes-Moreira , Tiago Mendes-Neves , Ricardo Sousa

Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental task often used to discover meaningful structures in data, such as phylogenetic trees, taxonomies of concepts, subtypes of cancer, and cascades of particle decays in particle physics. Typically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Craig S. Greenberg , Sebastian Macaluso , Nicholas Monath , Ji-Ah Lee , Patrick Flaherty , Kyle Cranmer , Andrew McGregor , Andrew McCallum

While the majority of approaches to the characterization of complex networks has relied on measurements considering only the immediate neighborhood of each network node, valuable information about the network topological properties can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Filipi Nascimento Silva

We show that specific higher dimensional shape information of point cloud data can be recovered by observing lower dimensional hierarchical clustering dynamics. We generate multiple point samples from point clouds and perform hierarchical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Paul Samuel P. Ignacio

This paper explores the critical role of data clustering in data science, emphasizing its methodologies, tools, and diverse applications. Traditional techniques, such as partitional and hierarchical clustering, are analyzed alongside…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tai Dinh , Wong Hauchi , Daniil Lisik , Michal Koren , Dat Tran , Philip S. Yu , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra

It has long been noticed that high dimension data exhibits strange patterns. This has been variously interpreted as either a "blessing" or a "curse", causing uncomfortable inconsistencies in the literature. We propose that these patterns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Wen-Yan Lin

Matrices are two-dimensional data structures allowing one to conceptually organize information. For example, adjacency matrices are useful to store the links of a network; correlation matrices are simple ways to arrange gene co-expression…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-09-29 Flaviano Morone

We survey agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithms and discuss efficient implementations that are available in R and other software environments. We look at hierarchical self-organizing maps, and mixture models. We review grid-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Fionn Murtagh , Pedro Contreras

Given a large-scale graph with millions of nodes and edges, how to reveal macro patterns of interest, like cliques, bi-partite cores, stars, and chains? Furthermore, how to visualize such patterns altogether getting insights from the graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hugo Gualdron , Robson Cordeiro , Jose Rodrigues