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Clustering algorithms are often used to find subpopulations in exploratory data analysis workflows. Not only the clusters themselves, but also their shape can represent meaningful subpopulations. In this paper, we present FLASC, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 D. M. Bot , J. Peeters , J. Liesenborgs , J. Aerts

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

Spectral clustering is a celebrated algorithm that partitions objects based on pairwise similarity information. While this approach has been successfully applied to a variety of domains, it comes with limitations. The reason is that there…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Kwangjun Ahn , Kangwook Lee , Changho Suh

This paper studies the large-scale subspace clustering (LSSC) problem with million data points. Many popular subspace clustering methods cannot directly handle the LSSC problem although they have been considered as state-of-the-art methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jun Li , Hongfu Liu , Zhiqiang Tao , Handong Zhao , Yun Fu

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

In this paper we consider the problem of group invariant subspace clustering where the data is assumed to come from a union of group-invariant subspaces of a vector space, i.e. subspaces which are invariant with respect to action of a given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Shuchin Aeron , Eric Kernfeld

Context: The huge and still rapidly growing amount of galaxies in modern sky surveys raises the need of an automated and objective classification method. Unsupervised learning algorithms are of particular interest, since they discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rene Andrae , Peter Melchior , Matthias Bartelmann

Soft-constraint affinity propagation (SCAP) is a new statistical-physics based clustering technique. First we give the derivation of a simplified version of the algorithm and discuss possibilities of time- and memory-efficient…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-10-20 Michele Leone , Sumedha , Martin Weigt

In online clustering problems, there is often a large amount of uncertainty over possible cluster assignments that cannot be resolved until more data are observed. This difficulty is compounded when clusters follow complex distributions, as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-17 Connie Trojan , Pavel Myshkov , Paul Fearnhead , James Hensman , Tom Minka , Christopher Nemeth

Subspace clustering is an important unsupervised clustering approach. It is based on the assumption that the high-dimensional data points are approximately distributed around several low-dimensional linear subspaces. The majority of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Maryam Abdolali , Nicolas Gillis

Subspace clustering (SC) aims to cluster data lying in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Usually, SC learns an affinity matrix and then performs spectral clustering. Both steps suffer from high time and space complexity, which leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jicong Fan

Spectral clustering is one of the most prominent clustering approaches. The distance-based similarity is the most widely used method for spectral clustering. However, people have already noticed that this is not suitable for multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hengrui Wang , Yubo Zhang , Mingzhi Chen , Tong Yang

Clustering is a well-known unsupervised machine learning approach capable of automatically grouping discrete sets of instances with similar characteristics. Constrained clustering is a semi-supervised extension to this process that can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Germán González-Almagro , Daniel Peralta , Eli De Poorter , José-Ramón Cano , Salvador García

To further utilize the unsupervised features and pairwise information, we propose a general Bilevel Clustering Optimization (BCO) framework to improve the performance of clustering. And then we introduce three special cases on subspace…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiebo Song , Huaming Ling

Subspace clustering (SC) refers to the problem of clustering high-dimensional data into a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Based on spectral clustering, state-of-the-art approaches solve SC problem within a two-stage framework. In the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Shuai Yang , Wenqi Zhu , Yuesheng Zhu

Clustering high-dimensional spatiotemporal data using an unsupervised approach is a challenging problem for many data-driven applications. Existing state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised clustering use different similarity and distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Omar Faruque , Francis Ndikum Nji , Mostafa Cham , Rohan Mandar Salvi , Xue Zheng , Jianwu Wang

High-dimensional clustering analysis is a challenging problem in statistics and machine learning, with broad applications such as the analysis of microarray data and RNA-seq data. In this paper, we propose a new clustering procedure called…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-31 Tianqi Liu , Yu Lu , Biqing Zhu , Hongyu Zhao

Center-based clustering (e.g., $k$-means, $k$-medians) and clustering using linear subspaces are two most popular techniques to partition real-world data into smaller clusters. However, when the data consists of sensitive demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Sruthi Gorantla , Kishen N. Gowda , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

Nowadays, data are generated massively and rapidly from scientific fields as bioinformatics, neuroscience and astronomy to business and engineering fields. Cluster analysis, as one of the major data analysis tools, is therefore more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-07 Teng Qiu , Yongjie Li

We propose Ordered Subspace Clustering (OSC) to segment data drawn from a sequentially ordered union of subspaces. Similar to Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) we formulate the problem as one of finding a sparse representation but include an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Stephen Tierney , Yi Guo , Junbin Gao