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k-means is a widely used clustering algorithm, but for $k$ clusters and a dataset size of $N$, each iteration of Lloyd's algorithm costs $O(kN)$ time. Although there are existing techniques to accelerate single Lloyd iterations, none of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Ryan R. Curtin

Among all the partition based clustering algorithms K-means is the most popular and well known method. It generally shows impressive results even in considerably large data sets. The computational complexity of K-means does not suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-22 Samarjeet Borah , Mrinal Kanti Ghose

K-means defines one of the most employed centroid-based clustering algorithms with performances tied to the data's embedding. Intricate data embeddings have been designed to push $K$-means performances at the cost of reduced theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Romain Cosentino , Randall Balestriero , Yanis Bahroun , Anirvan Sengupta , Richard Baraniuk , Behnaam Aazhang

We study the theoretical and practical runtime limits of k-means and k-median clustering on large datasets. Since effectively all clustering methods are slower than the time it takes to read the dataset, the fastest approach is to quickly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Andrew Draganov , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn

K-means clustering is widely used in psychological and psychometric research to identify profiles, subgroups, and potential typologies, yet its classical formulation does not test whether such groups exist as latent psychological…

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

K-means Clustering is the most well-known partitioning algorithm among all clustering, by which we can partition the data objects very easily in to more than one clusters. However, for K-means to choose an appropriate number of clusters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Afroj Alam

Classification is a popular task in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it happens when outputs are categorical variables. There are a wide variety of models that attempts to draw some conclusions from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi

K-means is undoubtedly the most widely used partitional clustering algorithm. Unfortunately, due to its gradient descent nature, this algorithm is highly sensitive to the initial placement of the cluster centers. Numerous initialization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-11 M. Emre Celebi , Hassan A. Kingravi , Patricio A. Vela

The incremental K-means clustering algorithm has already been proposed and analysed in paper [Chakraborty and Nagwani, 2011]. It is a very innovative approach which is applicable in periodically incremental environment and dealing with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Sanjay Chakraborty , N. K. Nagwani

The paper is focused on the forecasting method for time series groups with the use of algorithms for cluster analysis. $K$-means algorithm is suggested to be a basic one for clustering. The coordinates of the centers of clusters have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-17 N. N. Astakhova , L. A. Demidova , E. V. Nikulchev

A C# implementation of a generalized k-means variant called relational k-means is described here. Relational k-means is a generalization of the well-known k-means clustering method which works for non-Euclidean scenarios as well. The input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Balázs Szalkai

The $k$-means method is an iterative clustering algorithm which associates each observation with one of $k$ clusters. It traditionally employs cluster centers in the same space as the observed data. By relaxing this requirement, it is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Matthew Thorpe , Florian Theil , Adam M. Johansen , Neil Cade

K-Means is one of the most used algorithms for data clustering and the usual clustering method for benchmarking. Despite its wide application it is well-known that it suffers from a series of disadvantages; it is only able to find local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Avgoustinos Vouros , Stephen Langdell , Mike Croucher , Eleni Vasilaki

We give a simple and effective two stage algorithm for approximating a point cloud $\mathcal{S}\subset\mathbb{R}^m$ by a simplicial complex $K$. The first stage is an iterative fitting procedure that generalizes k-means clustering, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Piotr Beben

With the huge upsurge of information in day-to-days life, it has become difficult to assemble relevant information in nick of time. But people, always are in dearth of time, they need everything quick. Hence clustering was introduced to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray , Chandrali Sarma , Monica Jha

The $k$-means is one of the most important unsupervised learning techniques in statistics and computer science. The goal is to partition a data set into many clusters, such that observations within clusters are the most homogeneous and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-21 Tonglin Zhang

We employ unsupervised machine learning to enhance the accuracy of our recently presented scaling method for wave confinement analysis [1]. We employ the standard k-means++ algorithm as well as our own model-based algorithm. We investigate…

K-Means clustering still plays an important role in many computer vision problems. While the conventional Lloyd method, which alternates between centroid update and cluster assignment, is primarily used in practice, it may converge to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Huu Le , Anders Eriksson , Thanh-Toan Do , Michael Milford

Traditional k-means clustering underperforms on non-convex shapes and requires the number of clusters k to be specified in advance. We propose a simple geometric enhancement: after standard k-means, each cluster center is assigned a radius…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Stefan Kober