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Determining the number of clusters is a fundamental issue in data clustering. Several algorithms have been proposed, including centroid-based algorithms using the Euclidean distance and model-based algorithms using a mixture of probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ryosuke Motegi , Yoichi Seki

Supervised deep-embedding methods project inputs of a domain to a representational space in which same-class instances lie near one another and different-class instances lie far apart. We propose a probabilistic method that treats…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-27 Tyler R. Scott , Karl Ridgeway , Michael C. Mozer

Model-based clustering is a powerful tool that is often used to discover hidden structure in data by grouping observational units that exhibit similar response values. Recently, clustering methods have been developed that permit…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-24 Sally Paganin , Garritt L. Page , Fernando Andrés Quintana

This paper proposes a new distance metric between clusterings that incorporates information about the spatial distribution of points and clusters. Our approach builds on the idea of a Hilbert space-based representation of clusters as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Parasaran Raman , Jeff M. Phillips , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

We present federated momentum contrastive clustering (FedMCC), a learning framework that can not only extract discriminative representations over distributed local data but also perform data clustering. In FedMCC, a transformed data pair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Runxuan Miao , Erdem Koyuncu

Random restart of a given algorithm produces many partitions to yield a consensus clustering. Ensemble methods such as consensus clustering have been recognized as more robust approaches for data clustering than single clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-09 Serge Vicente , Alejandro Murua

Contrastive learning is widely used in clustering tasks due to its discriminative representation. However, the conflict problem between classes is difficult to solve effectively. Existing methods try to solve this problem through prototype…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shihao Dong , Xiaotong Zhou , Yuhui Zheng , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu

Determining the appropriate number of clusters in unsupervised learning is a central problem in statistics and data science. Traditional validity indices such as Calinski-Harabasz, Silhouette, and Davies-Bouldin-depend on centroid-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-17 Mohammed Baragilly , Hend Gabr

Persistence diagrams concisely represent the topology of a point cloud whilst having strong theoretical guarantees, but the question of how to best integrate this information into machine learning workflows remains open. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Thomas Davies , Jack Aspinall , Bryan Wilder , Long Tran-Thanh

Due to the wider availability of modern electronic health records, patient care data is often being stored in the form of time-series. Clustering such time-series data is crucial for patient phenotyping, anticipating patients' prognoses by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Changhee Lee , Mihaela van der Schaar

Process discovery algorithms automatically extract process models from event logs, but high variability often results in complex and hard-to-understand models. To mitigate this issue, trace clustering techniques group process executions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jari Peeperkorn , Johannes De Smedt , Jochen De Weerdt

A new method that accurately describes strongly correlated states and captures dynamical correlation is presented. It is derived as a modification of coupled-cluster theory with single and double excitations (CCSD) through consideration of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-07-15 Daniel Kats , Frederick R. Manby

This paper proposes a centroid-based clustering algorithm which is capable of clustering data-points with n-features, without having to specify the number of clusters to be formed. The core logic behind the algorithm is a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Rabindra Lamsal , Shubham Katiyar

Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) is a widely used clustering method. However, FCM and its many accelerated variants have low efficiency in the mid-to-late stage of the clustering process. In this stage, all samples are involved in the update of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Dong Li , Shuisheng Zhou , Witold Pedrycz

Fine-grained category discovery using only coarse-grained supervision is a cost-effective yet challenging task. Previous training methods focus on aligning query samples with positive samples and distancing them from negatives. They often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chang Tian , Matthew B. Blaschko , Wenpeng Yin , Mingzhe Xing , Yinliang Yue , Marie-Francine Moens

Prototype-based neural networks offer interpretable predictions by comparing inputs to learned, representative signal patterns anchored in training data. While such models have shown promise in the classification of physiological data, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sahil Sethi , David Chen , Michael C. Burkhart , Nipun Bhandari , Bashar Ramadan , Brett Beaulieu-Jones

Given entities and their interactions in the web data, which may have occurred at different time, how can we find communities of entities and track their evolution? In this paper, we approach this important task from graph clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Namyong Park , Ryan Rossi , Eunyee Koh , Iftikhar Ahamath Burhanuddin , Sungchul Kim , Fan Du , Nesreen Ahmed , Christos Faloutsos

Finding well-defined clusters in data represents a fundamental challenge for many data-driven applications, and largely depends on good data representation. Drawing on literature regarding representation learning, studies suggest that one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Daniel Lutscher , Ali el Hassouni , Maarten Stol , Mark Hoogendoorn

The clustering-based unsupervised relation discovery method has gradually become one of the important methods of open relation extraction (OpenRE). However, high-dimensional vectors can encode complex linguistic information which leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Jun Zhao , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Yaqian Zhou

In this paper, several two-dimensional clustering scenarios are given. In those scenarios, soft partitioning clustering algorithms (Fuzzy C-means (FCM) and Possibilistic c-means (PCM)) are applied. Afterward, VAT is used to investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Md. Abu Bakr Siddique , Rezoana Bente Arif , Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan , Zahidun Ashrafi