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Subset selection is an important component in evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) algorithms. Clustering, as a classic method to group similar data points together, has been used for subset selection in some fields. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Weiyu Chen , Hisao Ishibuchi , Ke Shang

Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu

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

Bi-clustering is a useful approach in analyzing biological data when observations come from heterogeneous groups and have a large number of features. We outline a general Bayesian approach in tackling bi-clustering problems in moderate to…

Applications · Statistics 2021-02-11 Han Yan , Jiexing Wu , Yang Li , Jun S. Liu

Clustering functional data is a challenging task due to intrinsic infinite-dimensionality and the need for stable, data-adaptive partitioning. In this work, we propose a clustering framework based on Random Projections, which simultaneously…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-18 Matteo Mori , Laura Anderlucci

Clustering is a common technique for statistical data analysis, Clustering is the process of grouping the data into classes or clusters so that objects within a cluster have high similarity in comparison to one another, but are very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-12 T Soni Madhulatha

The clustering of a data set is one of the core tasks in data analytics. Many clustering algorithms exhibit a strong contrast between a favorable performance in practice and bad theoretical worst-cases. Prime examples are least-squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 S. Borgwardt , F. Happach

Categorical data clustering (CDC) and link clustering (LC) have been considered as separate research and application areas. The main focus of this paper is to investigate the commonalities between these two problems and the uses of these…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

Data mining focuses on discovering interesting, non-trivial and meaningful information from large datasets. Data clustering is one of the unsupervised and descriptive data mining task which group data based on similarity features and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Pitawelayalage Dasun Dileepa Pitawela , Gamage Upeksha Ganegoda

Mixed datasets consist of both numeric and categorical attributes. Various k-means-based clustering algorithms have been developed for these datasets. Generally, these algorithms use random partition as a starting point, which tends to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Amir Ahmad , Shehroz S. Khan

Fast and high quality document clustering is an important task in organizing information, search engine results obtaining from user query, enhancing web crawling and information retrieval. With the large amount of data available and with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-11 Alok Ranjan , Harish Verma , Eatesh Kandpal , Joydip Dhar

The data stream model has been defined for new classes of applications involving massive data being generated at a fast pace. Web click stream analysis and detection of network intrusions are two examples. Cluster analysis on data streams…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng , Joshua Zhexue Huang

Text Clustering is a text mining technique which divides the given set of text documents into significant clusters. It is used for organizing a huge number of text documents into a well-organized form. In the majority of the clustering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-12 G. Hannah Grace , Kalyani Desikan

We propose in this paper an exploratory analysis algorithm for functional data. The method partitions a set of functions into $K$ clusters and represents each cluster by a simple prototype (e.g., piecewise constant). The total number of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-04-06 Georges Hébrail , Bernard Hugueney , Yves Lechevallier , Fabrice Rossi

The K-Modes algorithm, developed for clustering categorical data, is of high algorithmic simplicity but suffers from unreliable performances in clustering quality and clustering efficiency, both heavily influenced by the choice of initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Bipana Thapaliya , Yu Zhuang

Clustering is a popular machine learning technique for data mining that can process and analyze datasets to automatically reveal sample distribution patterns. Since the ubiquitous categorical data naturally lack a well-defined metric space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yiqun Zhang , Mingjie Zhao , Hong Jia , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung

We present a technique for clustering categorical data by generating many dissimilarity matrices and averaging over them. We begin by demonstrating our technique on low dimensional categorical data and comparing it to several other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-20 Saeid Amiri , Bertrand Clarke , Jennifer Clarke

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

Clustering is an unsupervised technique of Data Mining. It means grouping similar objects together and separating the dissimilar ones. Each object in the data set is assigned a class label in the clustering process using a distance measure.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-10-13 Parul Agarwal , M. Afshar Alam , Ranjit Biswas

Clustering is a fundamental problem in data analysis. In differentially private clustering, the goal is to identify $k$ cluster centers without disclosing information on individual data points. Despite significant research progress, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Edith Cohen , Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour , Uri Stemmer , Eliad Tsfadia