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The problem of accurate nonparametric estimation of distributional functionals (integral functionals of one or more probability distributions) has received recent interest due to their wide applicability in signal processing, information…

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Spike sorting plays an irreplaceable role in understanding brain codes. Traditional spike sorting technologies perform feature extraction and clustering separately after spikes are well detected. However, it may often cause many additional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-23 Libo Huang , Lu Gan , Bingo Wing-Kuen Ling

Data-driven neighborhood definitions and graph constructions are often used in machine learning and signal processing applications. k-nearest neighbor~(kNN) and $\epsilon$-neighborhood methods are among the most common methods used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

This paper considers the problem of subspace clustering under noise. Specifically, we study the behavior of Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) when either adversarial or random noise is added to the unlabelled input data points, which are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-23 Yu-Xiang Wang , Huan Xu

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

We investigate a novel non-parametric regression-based clustering algorithm for longitudinal data analysis. Combining natural cubic splines with Gaussian mixture models (GMM), the algorithm can produce smooth cluster means that describe the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-20 Peter Mlakar , Tapio Nummi , Polona Oblak , Jana Faganeli Pucer

We study the problem of differentially private clustering under input-stability assumptions. Despite the ever-growing volume of works on differential privacy in general and differentially private clustering in particular, only three works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Moshe Shechner

Due to their flexibility, Gaussian processes (GPs) have been widely used in nonparametric function estimation. A prior information about the underlying function is often available. For instance, the physical system (computer model output)…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-21 Hassan Maatouk

We study the problem of clustering $T$ trajectories of length $H$, each generated by one of K unknown ergodic Markov chains over a finite state space of size $S$. We derive an instance-dependent, high-probability lower bound on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Junghyun Lee , Yassir Jedra , Alexandre Proutière , Se-Young Yun

Two novel measurement-based, quantum clustering algorithms are proposed based on quantum parallelism and entanglement. The first algorithm follows a divisive approach. The second algorithm is based on unsharp measurements, where we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Srushti Patil , Shreya Banerjee , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Kernel-based clustering algorithms have the ability to capture the non-linear structure in real world data. Among various kernel-based clustering algorithms, kernel k-means has gained popularity due to its simple iterative nature and ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Radha Chitta , Rong Jin , Timothy C. Havens , Anil K. Jain

Although numerous clustering algorithms have been developed, many existing methods still leverage k-means technique to detect clusters of data points. However, the performance of k-means heavily depends on the estimation of centers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Quanxue Gao , Qianqian Wang , Han Lu , Wei Xia , Xinbo Gao

A model involving Gaussian processes (GPs) is introduced to simultaneously handle multi-task learning, clustering, and prediction for multiple functional data. This procedure acts as a model-based clustering method for functional data as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Arthur Leroy , Pierre Latouche , Benjamin Guedj , Servane Gey

In several application domains, high-dimensional observations are collected and then analysed in search for naturally occurring data clusters which might provide further insights about the nature of the problem. In this paper we describe a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-07 Brian McWilliams , Giovanni Montana

We present massively parallel (MPC) algorithms and hardness of approximation results for computing Single-Linkage Clustering of $n$ input $d$-dimensional vectors under Hamming, $\ell_1, \ell_2$ and $\ell_\infty$ distances. All our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Grigory Yaroslavtsev , Adithya Vadapalli

This paper introduces the innovative Power Muirhead Mean K-Nearest Neighbors (PMM-KNN) algorithm, a novel data classification approach that combines the K-Nearest Neighbors method with the adaptive Power Muirhead Mean operator. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Kourosh Shahnazari , Seyed Moein Ayyoubzadeh

Clustering multi-dimensional points is a fundamental task in many fields, and density-based clustering supports many applications as it can discover clusters of arbitrary shapes. This paper addresses the problem of Density-Peaks Clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Daichi Amagata , Takahiro Hara

Clustering is a fundamental tool in unsupervised learning, used to group objects by distinguishing between similar and dissimilar features of a given data set. One of the most common clustering algorithms is k-means. Unfortunately, when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-17 Olga Dorabiala , J. Nathan Kutz , Aleksandr Aravkin

This paper introduces enhancements to the K-means and K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithms based on the concept of Gini prametric spaces, instead of traditional metric spaces. Unlike standard distance metrics, Gini prametrics incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Cassandra Mussard , Arthur Charpentier , Stéphane Mussard

In the context of clustering, we consider a generative model in a Euclidean ambient space with clusters of different shapes, dimensions, sizes and densities. In an asymptotic setting where the number of points becomes large, we obtain…

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