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Clustering is a critical component of decision-making in todays data-driven environments. It has been widely used in a variety of fields such as bioinformatics, social network analysis, and image processing. However, clustering accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Krishnendu Das , Sumit Gupta , Awadhesh Kumar

Clustering analysis plays an important role in scientific research and commercial application. K-means algorithm is a widely used partition method in clustering. However, it is known that the K-means algorithm may get stuck at suboptimal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-26 M. H. Marghny , Rasha M. Abd El-Aziz , Ahmed I. Taloba

The $k$-means algorithm is one of the most widely used clustering heuristics. Despite its simplicity, analyzing its running time and quality of approximation is surprisingly difficult and can lead to deep insights that can be used to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Johannes Blömer , Christiane Lammersen , Melanie Schmidt , Christian Sohler

There has been much interest recently in developing fair clustering algorithms that seek to do justice to the representation of groups defined along sensitive attributes such as race and gender. We observe that clustering algorithms could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Stanley Simoes , Deepak P , Muiris MacCarthaigh

We consider a network of binary-valued sensors with a fusion center. The fusion center has to perform K-means clustering on the binary data transmitted by the sensors. In order to reduce the amount of data transmitted within the network,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Elsa Dupraz

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

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

With the advancement of technology and reduced storage costs, individuals and organizations are tending towards the usage of electronic media for storing textual information and documents. It is time consuming for readers to retrieve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-07-27 Yasir Safeer , Atika Mustafa , Anis Noor Ali

$K$-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 widely used and powerful machine learning technique, but its effectiveness is often limited by the need to specify the number of clusters, k, or by relying on thresholds that implicitly determine k. We introduce k*-means, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Louis Mahon , Mirella Lapata

Clustering is a usual unsupervised machine learning technique for grouping the data points into groups based upon similar features. We focus here on unsupervised clustering for contaminated data, i.e in the case where K-medians should be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Sobihan Surendran

This note introduces a novel clustering preserving transformation of cluster sets obtained from $k$-means algorithm. This transformation may be used to generate new labeled data{}sets from existent ones. It is more flexible that Kleinberg…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek

This paper investigates the following natural greedy procedure for clustering in the bi-criterion setting: iteratively grow a set of centers, in each round adding the center from a candidate set that maximally decreases clustering cost. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Daniel Hsu , Matus Telgarsky

The success of deep learning hinges on enormous data and large models, which require labor-intensive annotations and heavy computation costs. Subset selection is a fundamental problem that can play a key role in identifying smaller portions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Srikumar Ramalingam , Pranjal Awasthi , Sanjiv Kumar

Clustering stands as one of the most prominent challenges in unsupervised machine learning. Among centroid-based methods, the classic $k$-means algorithm, based on Lloyd's heuristic, is widely used. Nonetheless, it is a well-known fact that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-30 Supratik Basu , Jyotishka Ray Choudhury , Debolina Paul , Swagatam Das

We propose a new clustering algorithm that is robust to the presence of outliers in the dataset. We perform Lloyd-type iterations with robust estimates of the centroids. More precisely, we build on the idea of median-of-means statistics to…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-20 Camille Brunet-Saumard , Edouard Genetay , Adrien Saumard

The K-Means clustering using LLoyd's algorithm is an iterative approach to partition the given dataset into K different clusters. The algorithm assigns each point to the cluster based on the following objective function \[\ \min…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ashish Srivastava , Mohammed Nawfal

$k$-Clustering in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (e.g., $k$-median and $k$-means) is a fundamental machine learning problem. While near-linear time approximation algorithms were known in the classical setting for a dataset with cardinality $n$, it remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yecheng Xue , Xiaoyu Chen , Tongyang Li , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang

Clustering, a fundamental activity in unsupervised learning, is notoriously difficult when the feature space is high-dimensional. Fortunately, in many realistic scenarios, only a handful of features are relevant in distinguishing clusters.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Zhiyue Zhang , Kenneth Lange , Jason Xu

In this paper we target the class of modal clustering methods where clusters are defined in terms of the local modes of the probability density function which generates the data. The most well-known modal clustering method is the k-means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Gaël Beck , Tarn Duong , Mustapha Lebbah , Hanane Azzag , Christophe Cérin