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We propose the DPSM method, a density-based node clustering approach that automatically determines the number of clusters and can be applied in both data space and graph space. Unlike traditional density-based clustering methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Feiping Nie , Yitao Song , Jingjing Xue , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li

This paper deals with nonparametric estimation of conditional den-sities in mixture models in the case when additional covariates are available. The proposed approach consists of performing a prelim-inary clustering algorithm on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-09 Stéphane Auray , Nicolas Klutchnikoff , Laurent Rouvière

Clustering algorithms are fundamental tools across many fields, with density-based methods offering particular advantages in identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters and handling noise. However, their effectiveness is often limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Meysam Shirdel Bilehsavar , Razieh Ghaedi , Samira Seyed Taheri , Xinqi Fan , Christian O'Reilly

Cluster analysis methods seek to partition a data set into homogeneous subgroups. It is useful in a wide variety of applications, including document processing and modern genetics. Conventional clustering methods are unsupervised, meaning…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-11 Eric Bair

The nonparametric formulation of density-based clustering, known as modal clustering, draws a correspondence between groups and the attraction domains of the modes of the density function underlying the data. Its probabilistic foundation…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-27 Federico Ferraccioli , Giovanna Menardi

Clustering is an unsupervised learning problem that aims to partition unlabelled data points into groups with similar features. Traditional clustering algorithms provide limited insight into the groups they find as their main focus is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

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

With the recent growth in data availability and complexity, and the associated outburst of elaborate modelling approaches, model selection tools have become a lifeline, providing objective criteria to deal with this increasingly challenging…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-08 Alessandro Casa , Luca Scrucca , Giovanna Menardi

Clustering is a fundamental data mining tool that aims to divide data into groups of similar items. Generally, intuition about clustering reflects the ideal case -- exact data sets endowed with flawless dissimilarity between individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Margareta Ackerman , Jarrod Moore

Modes and ridges of the probability density function behind observed data are useful geometric features. Mode-seeking clustering assigns cluster labels by associating data samples with the nearest modes, and estimation of density ridges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-03 Hiroaki Sasaki , Takafumi Kanamori , Aapo Hyvärinen , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Data clustering is the process of identifying natural groupings or clusters within multidimensional data based on some similarity measure. Clustering is a fundamental process in many different disciplines. Hence, researchers from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Sibei Yang , Liangde Tao , Bingchen Gong

The problem of finding groups in data (cluster analysis) has been extensively studied by researchers from the fields of Statistics and Computer Science, among others. However, despite its popularity it is widely recognized that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-10 José E. Chacón

Density Based Clustering are a type of Clustering methods using in data mining for extracting previously unknown patterns from data sets. There are a number of density based clustering methods such as DBSCAN, OPTICS, DENCLUE, VDBSCAN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Rupanka Bhuyan , Samarjeet Borah

Clustering is a technique for the analysis of datasets obtained by empirical studies in several disciplines with a major application for biomedical research. Essentially, clustering algorithms are executed by machines aiming at finding…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-30 Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli , Santiago Fernandez Gonzalez , Rolf Krause

A novel formulation of the clustering problem is introduced in which the task is expressed as an estimation problem, where the object to be estimated is a function which maps a point to its distribution of cluster membership. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 David P. Hofmeyr

The clusters of a distribution are often defined by the connected components of a density level set. However, this definition depends on the user-specified level. We address this issue by proposing a simple, generic algorithm, which uses an…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-10-29 Ingo Steinwart

When it comes to clustering nonconvex shapes, two paradigms are used to find the most suitable clustering: minimum cut and maximum density. The most popular algorithms incorporating these paradigms are Spectral Clustering and DBSCAN. Both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Sibylle Hess , Wouter Duivesteijn , Philipp Honysz , Katharina Morik

Clustering can be defined as the process of assembling objects into a number of groups whose elements are similar to each other in some manner. As a technique that is used in many domains, such as face clustering, plant categorization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mehmet F. Demirel , Enrico Au-Yeung

Clustering is a widely used unsupervised learning method for finding structure in the data. However, the resulting clusters are typically presented without any guarantees on their robustness; slightly changing the used data sample or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-02 Andreas Henelius , Kai Puolamäki , Henrik Boström , Panagiotis Papapetrou

Clustering is a class of unsupervised learning methods that has been extensively applied and studied in computer vision. Little work has been done to adapt it to the end-to-end training of visual features on large scale datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Matthijs Douze