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We propose a new method for Unsupervised clustering in particle physics named UCluster, where information in the embedding space created by a neural network is used to categorise collision events into different clusters that share similar…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-06-01 Vinicius Mikuni , Florencia Canelli

In spectral clustering and spectral image segmentation, the data is partioned starting from a given matrix of pairwise similarities S. the matrix S is constructed by hand, or learned on a separate training set. In this paper we show how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Susan Shortreed , Marina Meila

Unsupervised classification called clustering is a process of organizing objects into groups whose members are similar in some way. Clustering of uncertain data objects is a challenge in spatial data bases. In this paper we use Probability…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Ramachandra Rao Kurada

Unsupervised machine learning, and in particular data clustering, is a powerful approach for the analysis of datasets and identification of characteristic features occurring throughout a dataset. It is gaining popularity across scientific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Maria El Abbassi , Jan Overbeck , Oliver Braun , Michel Calame , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Mickael L. Perrin

Many applications from the financial industry successfully leverage clustering algorithms to reveal meaningful patterns among a vast amount of unstructured financial data. However, these algorithms suffer from a lack of interpretability…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-24 Enguerrand Horel , Kay Giesecke , Victor Storchan , Naren Chittar

Hierarchical clustering is an important technique to organize big data for exploratory data analysis. However, existing one-size-fits-all hierarchical clustering methods often fail to meet the diverse needs of different users. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Weikai Yang , Xiting Wang , Jie Lu , Wenwen Dou , Shixia Liu

We propose a new anytime hierarchical clustering method that iteratively transforms an arbitrary initial hierarchy on the configuration of measurements along a sequence of trees we prove for a fixed data set must terminate in a chain of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-15 Omur Arslan , Daniel E. Koditschek

Unsupervised clustering is one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning. A popular hypothesis is that data are generated from a union of low-dimensional nonlinear manifolds; thus an approach to clustering is identifying and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Dejiao Zhang , Yifan Sun , Brian Eriksson , Laura Balzano

Semi-supervised clustering is the task of clustering data points into clusters where only a fraction of the points are labelled. The true number of clusters in the data is often unknown and most models require this parameter as an input.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Amar Shah , Zoubin Ghahramani

Clustering is ubiquitous in data analysis, including analysis of time series. It is inherently subjective: different users may prefer different clusterings for a particular dataset. Semi-supervised clustering addresses this by allowing the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-03 Toon Van Craenendonck , Wannes Meert , Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

In the realm of precision medicine, effective patient stratification and disease subtyping demand innovative methodologies tailored for multi-omics data. Clustering techniques applied to multi-omics data have become instrumental in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Bastian Pfeifer , Christel Sirocchi , Marcus D. Bloice , Markus Kreuzthaler , Martin Urschler

We study clustering methods for binary data, first defining aggregation criteria that measure the compactness of clusters. Five new and original methods are introduced, using neighborhoods and population behavior combinatorial optimization…

We compare the performance of different clustering algorithms applied to the task of unsupervised text categorization. We consider agglomerative clustering algorithms, principal direction divisive partitioning and (for the first time)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Volk , M. G. Stepanov

Nowadays, data are generated massively and rapidly from scientific fields as bioinformatics, neuroscience and astronomy to business and engineering fields. Cluster analysis, as one of the major data analysis tools, is therefore more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-07 Teng Qiu , Yongjie Li

Explainable clustering by axis-aligned decision trees was introduced by Moshkovitz et al. (2020) and has gained considerable interest. Prior work has focused on minimizing the price of explainability for specific clustering objectives,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tal Argov , Tal Wagner

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

In this paper, we introduce a neural network framework for semi-supervised clustering (SSC) with pairwise (must-link or cannot-link) constraints. In contrast to existing approaches, we decompose SSC into two simpler classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Marek Śmieja , Łukasz Struski , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Exploratory data analysis is crucial for developing and understanding classification models from high-dimensional datasets. We explore the utility of a new unsupervised tree ensemble called uncharted forest for visualizing class…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-03 Casey Kneale , Steven D. Brown

Clustering analysis identifies samples as groups based on either their mutual closeness or homogeneity. In order to detect clusters in arbitrary shapes, a novel and generic solution based on boundary erosion is proposed. The clusters are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Cheng-Hao Deng , Wan-Lei Zhao

Many clustering methods, including k-means, require the user to specify the number of clusters as an input parameter. A variety of methods have been devised to choose the number of clusters automatically, but they often rely on strong…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-10 Wei Fu , Patrick O. Perry