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The classical center based clustering problems such as $k$-means/median/center assume that the optimal clusters satisfy the locality property that the points in the same cluster are close to each other. A number of clustering problems arise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

K-means clustering, a classic and widely-used clustering technique, is known to exhibit suboptimal performance when applied to non-linearly separable data. Numerous adjustments and modifications have been proposed to address this issue,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Zhili Qiao , Wangqian Ju , Peng Liu

A new cluster analysis method, $K$-quantiles clustering, is introduced. $K$-quantiles clustering can be computed by a simple greedy algorithm in the style of the classical Lloyd's algorithm for $K$-means. It can be applied to large and…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-12 Christian Hennig , Cinzia Viroli , Laura Anderlucci

Center-based clustering algorithms (e.g., K-means) are popular for clustering tasks, but they usually struggle to achieve high accuracy on complex datasets. We believe the main reason is that traditional center-based clustering algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Qi Li

Clustering is a popular form of unsupervised learning for geometric data. Unfortunately, many clustering algorithms lead to cluster assignments that are hard to explain, partially because they depend on all the features of the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

Application of K-Means algorithm is restricted by the fact that the number of clusters should be known beforehand. Previously suggested methods to solve this problem are either ad hoc or require parametric assumptions and complicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Sukavanan Nanjundan , Shreeviknesh Sankaran , C. R. Arjun , G. Paavai Anand

Clustering analysis has received considerable attention in spatial data mining for several years. With the rapid development of the geospatial information technologies, the size of spatial information data is growing exponentially which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Xia Yue , Wang Man , Jun Yue , Guangcao Liu

Clustering partitions a dataset such that observations placed together in a group are similar but different from those in other groups. Hierarchical and $K$-means clustering are two approaches but have different strengths and weaknesses.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Anna D. Peterson , Arka P. Ghosh , Ranjan Maitra

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 number of accidents and health diseases which are increasing at an alarming rate are resulting in a huge increase in the demand for blood. There is a necessity for the organized analysis of the blood donor database or blood banks…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Bondu Venkateswarlu , Prof G. S. V. Prasad Raju

Unveiling the evolutionary history of galaxies necessitates a precise understanding of their physical properties. Traditionally, astronomers achieve this through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. However, this approach can be…

K-means is a popular clustering algorithm with significant applications in numerous scientific and engineering areas. One drawback of K-means is its inability to identify non-linearly separable clusters, which may lead to inaccurate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Julian Bellavita , Thomas Pasquali , Laura Del Rio Martin , Flavio Vella , Giulia Guidi

We propose a novel accelerated exact k-means algorithm, which performs better than the current state-of-the-art low-dimensional algorithm in 18 of 22 experiments, running up to 3 times faster. We also propose a general improvement of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-13 James Newling , François Fleuret

This paper presents a thorough evaluation of the existing methods that accelerate Lloyd's algorithm for fast k-means clustering. To do so, we analyze the pruning mechanisms of existing methods, and summarize their common pipeline into a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Sheng Wang , Yuan Sun , Zhifeng Bao

A significantly faster algorithm is presented for the original kNN mode seeking procedure. It has the advantages over the well-known mean shift algorithm that it is feasible in high-dimensional vector spaces and results in uniquely, well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-21 Robert P. W. Duin , Sergey Verzakov

We devise coresets for kernel $k$-Means with a general kernel, and use them to obtain new, more efficient, algorithms. Kernel $k$-Means has superior clustering capability compared to classical $k$-Means, particularly when clusters are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Jianing Lou , Yubo Zhang

Among ensemble clustering methods, Evidence Accumulation Clustering is one of the simplest technics. In this approach, a co-association (CA) matrix representing the co-clustering frequency is built and then clustered to extract consensus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Gaëlle Candel

The popular K-means clustering algorithm potentially suffers from a major weakness for further analysis or interpretation. Some cluster may have disproportionately more (or fewer) points from one of the subpopulations in terms of some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guancheng Zhou , Haiping Xu , Hongkang Xu , Chenyu Li , Donghui Yan

In this paper, we propose an acceleration of the exact k-means++ algorithm using geometric information, specifically the Triangle Inequality and additional norm filters, along with a two-step sampling procedure. Our experiments demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Guillem Rodríguez Corominas , Maria J. Blesa , Christian Blum

For very large values of $k$, we consider methods for fast $k$-means clustering of massive datasets with $10^7\sim10^9$ points in high-dimensions ($d\geq100$). All current practical methods for this problem have runtimes at least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jack Spalding-Jamieson , Eliot Wong Robson , Da Wei Zheng