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We examine the efficiency of clustering a set of points, when the encompassing metric space may be preprocessed in advance. In computational problems of this genre, there is a first stage of preprocessing, whose input is a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Tsvi Kopelowitz , Robert Krauthgamer

There has been considerable work on improving popular clustering algorithm `K-means' in terms of mean squared error (MSE) and speed, both. However, most of the k-means variants tend to compute distance of each data point to each cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Siddhesh Khandelwal , Amit Awekar

We study the problem of applying spectral clustering to cluster multi-scale data, which is data whose clusters are of various sizes and densities. Traditional spectral clustering techniques discover clusters by processing a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xiang Li , Ben Kao , Caihua Shan , Dawei Yin , Martin Ester

Although numerous clustering algorithms have been developed, many existing methods still leverage k-means technique to detect clusters of data points. However, the performance of k-means heavily depends on the estimation of centers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Quanxue Gao , Qianqian Wang , Han Lu , Wei Xia , Xinbo Gao

Kernel-based K-means clustering has gained popularity due to its simplicity and the power of its implicit non-linear representation of the data. A dominant concern is the memory requirement since memory scales as the square of the number of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-05 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki , Stephen Becker

Trajectory clustering is an important operation of knowledge discovery from mobility data. Especially nowadays, the need for performing advanced analytic operations over massively produced data, such as mobility traces, in efficient and…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Panagiotis Tampakis , Nikos Pelekis , Christos Doulkeridis , Yannis Theodoridis

K-means is one of the most widely used algorithms for clustering in Data Mining applications, which attempts to minimize the sum of the square of the Euclidean distance of the points in the clusters from the respective means of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sayantan Dasgupta

In the face of complex natural images, existing deep clustering algorithms fall significantly short in terms of clustering accuracy when compared to supervised classification methods, making them less practical. This paper introduces an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Qiuyu Zhu , Liheng Hu , Sijin Wang

Measuring similarity between two objects is the core operation in existing clustering algorithms in grouping similar objects into clusters. This paper introduces a new similarity measure called point-set kernel which computes the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Ye Zhu

In this paper, I will introduce a fast and novel clustering algorithm based on Gaussian distribution and it can guarantee the separation of each cluster centroid as a given parameter, $d_s$. The worst run time complexity of this algorithm…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Yuan-Yen Tai

In data summarization we want to choose $k$ prototypes in order to summarize a data set. We study a setting where the data set comprises several demographic groups and we are restricted to choose $k_i$ prototypes belonging to group $i$. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Matthäus Kleindessner , Pranjal Awasthi , Jamie Morgenstern

In this paper, we consider the problem of partitioning a small data sample drawn from a mixture of $k$ product distributions. We are interested in the case that individual features are of low average quality $\gamma$, and we want to use as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-17 Avrim Blum , Amin Coja-Oghlan , Alan Frieze , Shuheng Zhou

Clustering is a NP-hard problem. Thus, no optimal algorithm exists, heuristics are applied to cluster the data. Heuristics can be very resource-intensive, if not applied properly. For substantially large data sets computational efficiencies…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Mujahid Sultan

There is a long history of research into time series clustering using distance-based partitional clustering. Many of the most popular algorithms adapt k-means (also known as Lloyd's algorithm) to exploit time dependencies in the data by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Christopher Holder , Anthony Bagnall , Jason Lines

In this paper we initiate a systematic study of exact algorithms for well-known clustering problems, namely $k$-Median and $k$-Means. In $k$-Median, the input consists of a set $X$ of $n$ points belonging to a metric space, and the task is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Nidhi Purohit , Saket Saurabh

Clustering is a fundamental problem in machine learning where distance-based approaches have dominated the field for many decades. This set of problems is often tackled by partitioning the data into K clusters where the number of clusters…

Clustering large high-dimensional datasets with diverse variable is essential for extracting high-level latent information from these datasets. Here, we developed an unsupervised clustering algorithm, we call "Village-Net". Village-Net is…

We study the following distribution clustering problem: Given a hidden partition of $k$ distributions into two groups, such that the distributions within each group are the same, and the two distributions associated with the two clusters…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Gunjan Kumar , Yash Pote , Jonathan Scarlett

The problem of clustering noisy and incompletely observed high-dimensional data points into a union of low-dimensional subspaces and a set of outliers is considered. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-24 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

We consider the problem of clustering a set of high-dimensional data points into sets of low-dimensional linear subspaces. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are unknown. We propose a simple and low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei