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Spatiotemporal data is increasingly available due to emerging sensor and data acquisition technologies that track moving objects. Spatiotemporal clustering addresses the need to efficiently discover patterns and trends in moving object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Olga Dorabiala , Devavrat Vivek Dabke , Jennifer Webster , Nathan Kutz , Aleksandr Aravkin

We revisit Pollard's classical result on consistency for $k$-means clustering in Euclidean space, with a focus on extensions in two directions: first, to problems where the data may come from interesting geometric settings (e.g., Riemannian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Adam Quinn Jaffe

Kernel-based clustering algorithms have the ability to capture the non-linear structure in real world data. Among various kernel-based clustering algorithms, kernel k-means has gained popularity due to its simple iterative nature and ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Radha Chitta , Rong Jin , Timothy C. Havens , Anil K. Jain

Clustering samples according to an effective metric and/or vector space representation is a challenging unsupervised learning task with a wide spectrum of applications. Among several clustering algorithms, k-means and its kernelized version…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Marco Jacopo Ferrarotti , Sergio Decherchi , Walter Rocchia

The paper presents a novel approach for unsupervised techniques in the field of clustering. A new method is proposed to enhance existing literature models using the proper Bayesian bootstrap to improve results in terms of robustness and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-16 Federico Maria Quetti , Silvia Figini , Elena ballante

Clustering serves as a vital tool for uncovering latent data structures, and achieving both high accuracy and interpretability is essential. To this end, existing methods typically construct binary decision trees by solving mixed-integer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hayato Suzuki , Shunnosuke Ikeda , Yuichi Takano

We develop novel clustering algorithms for functional data when the number of clusters $K$ is unknown and also when it is prefixed. These algorithms are developed based on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) measure between two sets of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-16 Sourav Chakrabarty , Anirvan Chakraborty , Shyamal K. De

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tools in data science and machine learning, and k-means clustering is one of the most common such methods. There is a variety of approximate algorithms for the k-means problem, but computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Martin Ryner , Jan Kronqvist , Johan Karlsson

This paper explores hierarchical clustering in the case where pairs of points have dissimilarity scores (e.g. distances) as a part of the input. The recently introduced objective for points with dissimilarity scores results in every tree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Benjamin Moseley , Yuyan Wang

Clustering algorithms have long been the topic of research, representing the more popular side of unsupervised learning. Since clustering analysis is one of the best ways to find some clarity and structure within raw data, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Naitik Gada

The use of distributed optimization in machine learning can be motivated either by the resulting preservation of privacy or the increase in computational efficiency. On the one hand, training data might be stored across multiple devices.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Vassilios Yfantis , Achim Wagner , Martin Ruskowski

Identifying a set of homogeneous clusters in a heterogeneous dataset is one of the most important classes of problems in statistical modeling. In the realm of unsupervised partitional clustering, k-means is a very important algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 J. Andrew Howe

Learning a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is a fundamental problem in machine learning, learning theory, and statistics. One notion of learning a GMM is proper learning: here, the goal is to find a mixture of $k$ Gaussians $\mathcal{M}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Jerry Li , Ludwig Schmidt

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

This paper presents a k-means-based multi-subpopulation particle swarm optimization, denoted as KMPSO, for training the neural network ensemble. In the proposed KMPSO, particles are dynamically partitioned into clusters via the k-means…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Hui Yu

This paper discusses the topic of dimensionality reduction for $k$-means clustering. We prove that any set of $n$ points in $d$ dimensions (rows in a matrix $A \in \RR^{n \times d}$) can be projected into $t = \Omega(k / \eps^2)$…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Christos Boutsidis , Anastasios Zouzias , Petros Drineas

Clustering is one of the most fundamental and wide-spread techniques in exploratory data analysis. Yet, the basic approach to clustering has not really changed: a practitioner hand-picks a task-specific clustering loss to optimize and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yibo Jiang , Nakul Verma

We study the problem of optimal estimation of the density cluster tree under various assumptions on the underlying density. Building up from the seminal work of Chaudhuri et al. [2014], we formulate a new notion of clustering consistency…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Daren Wang , Xinyang Lu , Alessandro Rinaldo

Clustering plays a crucial role in computer science, facilitating data analysis and problem-solving across numerous fields. By partitioning large datasets into meaningful groups, clustering reveals hidden structures and relationships within…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Aryan Esmailpour , Stavros Sintos

k-means has recently been recognized as one of the best algorithms for clustering unsupervised data. Since k-means depends mainly on distance calculation between all data points and the centers, the time cost will be high when the size of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-08 Raied Salman , Vojislav Kecman , Qi Li , Robert Strack , Erik Test