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Motivation: Clustering is a frequently used concept in variety of bioinformatical applications. We present a new method for hierarchical clustering of data called mutual information clustering (MIC) algorithm. It uses mutual information…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Alexander Kraskov , Harald Stögbauer , Ralph G. Andrzejak , Peter Grassberger

We consider the simultaneous clustering of rows and columns of a matrix and more particularly the ability to measure the agreement between two co-clustering partitions. The new criterion we developed is based on the Adjusted Rand Index and…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-16 Valerie Robert , Yann Vasseur , Vincent Brault

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

We study here the clustering of directed social graphs. The clustering coefficient has been introduced to capture the social phenomena that a friend of a friend tends to be my friend. This metric has been widely studied and has shown to be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Thibaud Trolliet , Nathann Cohen , Frédéric Giroire , Luc Hogie , Stéphane Pérennes

To evaluate clustering results is a significant part of cluster analysis. There are no true class labels for clustering in typical unsupervised learning. Thus, a number of internal evaluations, which use predicted labels and data, have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew

Nonhierarchical clustering depending on unsupervised algorithms may not retrieve the optimal partition of datasets. Determining if clusters fit ``natural partitions`` can be achieved using cluster validity indices (CVIs). Most existing CVIs…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-04 Anri Mutoh , Masamichi Wada , Kou Amano

A new model called Clustering with Neural Network and Index (CNNI) is introduced. CNNI uses a Neural Network to cluster data points. Training of the Neural Network mimics supervised learning, with an internal clustering evaluation index…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gangli Liu

Finding "true" clusters in a data set is a challenging problem. Clustering solutions obtained using different models and algorithms do not necessarily provide compact and well-separated clusters or the optimal number of clusters. Cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Adil M. Bagirov , Ramiz M. Aliguliyev , Nargiz Sultanova , Sona Taheri

Whether class labels in a given data set correspond to meaningful clusters is crucial for the evaluation of clustering algorithms using real-world data sets. This property can be quantified by separability measures. The central aspects of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-11 Jana Gauss , Fabian Scheipl , Moritz Herrmann

Clustering is a central approach for unsupervised learning. After clustering is applied, the most fundamental analysis is to quantitatively compare clusterings. Such comparisons are crucial for the evaluation of clustering methods as well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-03 Alexander J Gates , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Internal cluster validity measures (such as the Calinski-Harabasz, Dunn, or Davies-Bouldin indices) are frequently used for selecting the appropriate number of partitions a dataset should be split into. In this paper we consider what…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-31 Marek Gagolewski , Maciej Bartoszuk , Anna Cena

Pattern comparison represents a fundamental and crucial aspect of scientific modeling, artificial intelligence, and pattern recognition. Three main approaches have typically been applied for pattern comparison: (i) distances; (ii)…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-12 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

A key issue in cluster analysis is the choice of an appropriate clustering method and the determination of the best number of clusters. Different clusterings are optimal on the same data set according to different criteria, and the choice…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-24 Serhat Emre Akhanli , Christian Hennig

The evolution of many dynamical systems that describe relationships or interactions between objects can be effectively modeled by temporal networks, which are typically represented as a sequence of static network snapshots. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Filip Blašković , Tim O. F. Conrad , Stefan Klus , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad

The present work investigates clustering of a graph-based representation of industrial connections derived from international trade data by Hidalgo et al (2007) and confirms existence of around ten industrial clusters that are reasonably…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-20 V. Bouet , A. Y. Klimenko

Random walks can reveal communities or clusters in networks, because they are more likely to stay within a cluster than leave it. Thus, one family of community detection algorithms uses random walks to measure distance between pairs of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-11 Eric Chalmers , Artur Luczak

We generalize finite-sample bounds for convex clustering to the setting where affinity weights appearing in the objective correspond to a general connected graph. These bounds and their analysis lead to a better understanding of clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Sam Rosen , Jason Xu

We propose a novel perspective on varied-density clustering for high-dimensional data by framing it as a label propagation process in neighborhood graphs that adapt to local density variations. Our method formally connects density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ninh Pham , Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs

Cluster validity indexes are very important tools designed for two purposes: comparing the performance of clustering algorithms and determining the number of clusters that best fits the data. These indexes are in general constructed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Ahmed Ben Said , Rachid Hadjidj , Sebti Foufou

In this work, the possibility of clustering correlated random variables was examined, both because of their mutual similarity and because of their similarity to the principal components. The k-means algorithm and spectral algorithms were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Zenon Gniazdowski , Dawid Kaliszewski