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We introduce K-tree in an information retrieval context. It is an efficient approximation of the k-means clustering algorithm. Unlike k-means it forms a hierarchy of clusters. It has been extended to address issues with sparse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-01-07 Christopher M. De Vries , Shlomo Geva

Clustering is an effective technique in data mining to generate groups that are the matter of interest. Among various clustering approaches, the family of k-means algorithms and min-cut algorithms gain most popularity due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang

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

In this work, we unify recent variable-clustering techniques within a common geometric framework which allows to extend clustering to variable-structures, i.e. variable-subsets within which links between variables are taken into…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-25 Xavier Bry , Lionel Cucala

The K-means algorithm is among the most commonly used data clustering methods. However, the regular K-means can only be applied in the input space and it is applicable when clusters are linearly separable. The kernel K-means, which extends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Amir Aradnia , Maryam Amir Haeri , Mohammad Mehdi Ebadzadeh

Comparison of three kind of the clustering and find cost function and loss function and calculate them. Error rate of the clustering methods and how to calculate the error percentage always be one on the important factor for evaluating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Kamran Kowsari

The Lloyd-Max algorithm is a classical approach to perform K-means clustering. Unfortunately, its cost becomes prohibitive as the training dataset grows large. We propose a compressive version of K-means (CKM), that estimates cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Nicolas Keriven , Nicolas Tremblay , Yann Traonmilin , Rémi Gribonval

We develop a new class of distances for objects including lines, hyperplanes, and trajectories, based on the distance to a set of landmarks. These distances easily and interpretably map objects to a Euclidean space, are simple to compute,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jeff M. Phillips , Pingfan Tang

K-means++ is an algorithm which is invented to improve the process of finding initial seeds in K-means algorithm. In this algorithm, initial seeds are chosen consecutively by a probability which is proportional to the distance to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Maliheh Heydarpour Shahrezaei , Reza Tavoli

We study how to learn multiple dictionaries from a dataset, and approximate any data point by the sum of the codewords each chosen from the corresponding dictionary. Although theoretically low approximation errors can be achieved by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Jianfeng Wang , Shuicheng Yan , Yi Yang , Mohan S Kankanhalli , Shipeng Li , Jingdong Wang

$K$-means clustering is one of the most widely-used partitioning algorithm in cluster analysis due to its simplicity and computational efficiency. However, $K$-means does not provide an appropriate clustering result when applying to data…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-18 Bingling Wang , Yinxing Li , Wolfgang Karl Härdle

Clustering is a long-standing problem area in data mining. The centroid-based classical approaches to clustering mainly face difficulty in the case of high dimensional inputs such as images. With the advent of deep neural networks, a common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Debapriya Roy

This paper introduces Geometric-k-means (or Gk-means for short), a novel approach that significantly enhances the efficiency and energy economy of the widely utilized k-means algorithm, which, despite its inception over five decades ago,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Parichit Sharma , Marcin Stanislaw , Hasan Kurban , Oguzhan Kulekci , Mehmet Dalkilic

In a standard cluster analysis, such as k-means, in addition to clusters locations and distances between them, it's important to know if they are connected or well separated from each other. The main focus of this paper is discovering the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-22 Evgeny Bauman , Konstantin Bauman

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised machine learning with many applications in data analysis. Popular clustering algorithms such as Lloyd's algorithm and $k$-means++ can take $\Omega(ndk)$ time when clustering $n$ points in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Moses Charikar , Monika Henzinger , Lunjia Hu , Maxmilian Vötsch , Erik Waingarten

The $K$-means algorithm is extended to allow for partitioning of skewed groups. Our algorithm is called TiK-Means and contributes a $K$-means type algorithm that assigns observations to groups while estimating their skewness-transformation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Nicholas S. Berry , Ranjan Maitra

Many methods have been developed for data clustering, such as k-means, expectation maximization and algorithms based on graph theory. In this latter case, graphs are generally constructed by taking into account the Euclidian distance as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-27 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Distributed data mining techniques and mainly distributed clustering are widely used in the last decade because they deal with very large and heterogeneous datasets which cannot be gathered centrally. Current distributed clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Malika Bendechache , M-Tahar Kechadi

K-means clustering is an unsupervised clustering method that requires an initial decision of number of clusters. One method to determine the number of clusters is the elbow method, a heuristic method that relies on visual representation.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-11 Indra Herdiana , M Alfin Kamal , Triyani , Mutia Nur Estri , Renny

Clustering is one of the most fundamental problems in data analysis and it has been studied extensively in the literature. Though many clustering algorithms have been proposed, clustering theories that justify the use of these clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Cheng-Shang Chang , Wanjiun Liao , Yu-Sheng Chen , Li-Heng Liou