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This work presents a novel variant of the Firefly Algorithm (FA) for data clustering, addressing limitations of traditional methods like K-Means that struggle with non-uniform cluster shapes, densities, and the need for pre-defining the…

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Association Rule mining is one of the most important fields in data mining and knowledge discovery. This paper proposes an algorithm that combines the simple association rules derived from basic Apriori Algorithm with the multiple minimum…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Walaa Medhat , Ahmed Hassan Yousef , Hoda Korashy Mohamed

As the growing interest of web recommendation systems those are applied to deliver customized data for their users, we started working on this system. Generally the recommendation systems are divided into two major categories such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Ujwala Wanaskar , Sheetal Vij , Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

In this article, we introduce a novel recursive modification to the classical Goemans-Williamson MaxCut algorithm, offering improved performance in vectorized data clustering tasks. Focusing on the clustering of medical publications, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-16 An Ly , Raj Sawhney , Marina Chugunova

Clustering is an effective technique in data mining to group a set of objects in terms of some attributes. Among various clustering approaches, the family of K-Means algorithms gains popularity due to simplicity and efficiency. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jinglin Xu , Junwei Han , Mingliang Xu , Feiping Nie , Xuelong Li

Quantum computing is a promising paradigm based on quantum theory for performing fast computations. Quantum algorithms are expected to surpass their classical counterparts in terms of computational complexity for certain tasks, including…

Clustering is a fundamental tool that has garnered significant interest across a wide range of applications including text analysis. To improve clustering accuracy, many researchers have incorporated background knowledge, typically in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Chaoqi Jia , Weihong Wu , Longkun Guo , Zhigang Lu , Chao Chen , Kok-Leong Ong

Common clustering algorithms require multiple scans of all the data to achieve convergence, and this is prohibitive when large databases, with data arriving in streams, must be processed. Some algorithms to extend the popular K-means method…

Applications · Statistics 2017-12-22 Giacomo Aletti , Alessandra Micheletti

This paper presents two novel deterministic initialization procedures for K-means clustering based on a modified crowding distance. The procedures, named CKmeans and FCKmeans, use more crowded points as initial centroids. Experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Abdesslem Layeb

We compare the performance of different clustering algorithms applied to the task of unsupervised text categorization. We consider agglomerative clustering algorithms, principal direction divisive partitioning and (for the first time)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Volk , M. G. Stepanov

$K$-means, a simple and effective clustering algorithm, is one of the most widely used algorithms in multimedia and computer vision community. Traditional $k$-means is an iterative algorithm---in each iteration new cluster centers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Jingdong Wang , Jing Wang , Qifa Ke , Gang Zeng , Shipeng Li

Active clustering aims to boost the clustering performance by integrating human-annotated pairwise constraints through strategic querying. Conventional approaches with semi-supervised clustering schemes encounter high query costs when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xun Deng , Junlong Liu , Han Zhong , Fuli Feng , Chen Shen , Xiangnan He , Jieping Ye , Zheng Wang

Multi-view clustering is a learning paradigm based on multi-view data. Since statistic properties of different views are diverse, even incompatible, few approaches implement multi-view clustering based on the concatenated features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Qinghai Zheng , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li , Shanmin Pang , Jun Wang , Yaochen Li

Federated Learning (FL) faces major challenges in real-world deployments due to statistical heterogeneity across clients and system heterogeneity arising from resource-constrained devices. While clustering-based approaches mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Om Govind Jha , Harsh Shukla , Haroon R. Lone

Data clustering is a process of arranging similar data into groups. A clustering algorithm partitions a data set into several groups such that the similarity within a group is better than among groups. In this paper a hybrid clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-25 Ravindra Jain

Clustering points in a vector space or nodes in a graph is a ubiquitous primitive in statistical data analysis, and it is commonly used for exploratory data analysis. In practice, it is often of interest to "refine" or "improve" a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 K. Fountoulakis , M. Liu , D. F. Gleich , M. W. Mahoney

We propose a novel method to accelerate Lloyd's algorithm for K-Means clustering. Unlike previous acceleration approaches that reduce computational cost per iterations or improve initialization, our approach is focused on reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Juyong Zhang , Yuxin Yao , Yue Peng , Hao Yu , Bailin Deng

Instead of directly utilizing an observed image including some outliers, noise or intensity inhomogeneity, the use of its ideal value (e.g. noise-free image) has a favorable impact on clustering. Hence, the accurate estimation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Cong Wang , Witold Pedrycz , ZhiWu Li , MengChu Zhou , Jun Zhao

We propose a simple and efficient clustering method for high-dimensional data with a large number of clusters. Our algorithm achieves high-performance by evaluating distances of datapoints with a subset of the cluster centres. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Georgios Exarchakis , Omar Oubari , Gregor Lenz

In this paper, an intelligent system for web based e-Learning is proposed which analyzes students knowledge capacity by applying clustering technique. This system uses fuzzy logic and k-means clustering algorithm to arrange the documents…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-02-11 B. Senthilnayaki , K. Venkatalakshmi , A. Kannan