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Energy consumption analysis plays a pivotal role in addressing the challenges of sustainability and resource management. This paper introduces a novel approach to effectively cluster monthly energy consumption patterns by integrating two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Farideh Majidi

Finite Gaussian mixture models are widely used for model-based clustering of continuous data. Nevertheless, since the number of model parameters scales quadratically with the number of variables, these models can be easily…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-25 Michael Fop , Thomas Brendan Murphy , Luca Scrucca

Deep clustering uncovers hidden patterns and groups in complex time series data, yet its opaque decision-making limits use in safety-critical settings. This survey offers a structured overview of explainable deep clustering for time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Udo Schlegel , Gabriel Marques Tavares , Thomas Seidl

Data clustering is a recognized data analysis method in data mining whereas K-Means is the well known partitional clustering method, possessing pleasant features. We observed that, K-Means and other partitional clustering techniques suffer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Jayshree Ghorpade-Aher , Vishakha A. Metre

In cluster analysis, a common first step is to scale the data aiming to better partition them into clusters. Even though many different techniques have throughout many years been introduced to this end, it is probably fair to say that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Eduardo J. Aguilar , Valmir C. Barbosa

Clustering is an essential primitive in unsupervised machine learning. We bring forth the problem of sublinear-time differentially-private clustering as a natural and well-motivated direction of research. We combine the $k$-means and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jeremiah Blocki , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

We study the data selection problem, whose aim is to select a small representative subset of data that can be used to efficiently train a machine learning model. We present a new data selection approach based on $k$-means clustering and…

Notwithstanding the popularity of conventional clustering algorithms such as K-means and probabilistic clustering, their clustering results are sensitive to the presence of outliers in the data. Even a few outliers can compromise the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-27 Pedro A. Forero , Vassilis Kekatos , Georgios B. Giannakis

This paper presents the first time series clustering benchmark utilizing all time series datasets currently available in the University of California Riverside (UCR) archive -- the state of the art repository of time series data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Ali Javed , Byung Suk Lee , Dona M. Rizzo

The task of clustering unlabeled time series and sequences entails a particular set of challenges, namely to adequately model temporal relations and variable sequence lengths. If these challenges are not properly handled, the resulting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-19 Daniel J. Trosten , Andreas S. Strauman , Michael Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen

A mixture of multivariate Poisson-log normal factor analyzers is introduced by imposing constraints on the covariance matrix, which resulted in flexible models for clustering purposes. In particular, a class of eight parsimonious mixture…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-15 Andrea Payne , Anjali Silva , Steven J. Rothstein , Paul D. McNicholas , Sanjeena Subedi

It has always been a great challenge for clustering algorithms to automatically determine the cluster numbers according to the distribution of datasets. Several approaches have been proposed to address this issue, including the recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Xuhui Fan , Yiling Zeng , Longbing Cao

We present methods for k-means clustering on a stream with a focus on providing fast responses to clustering queries. Compared to the current state-of-the-art, our methods provide substantial improvement in the query time for cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yu Zhang , Kanat Tangwongsan , Srikanta Tirthapura

Clustering of urban traffic patterns is an essential task in many different areas of traffic management and planning. In this paper, two significant applications in the clustering of urban traffic patterns are described. The first…

Unsupervised learning is often used to uncover clusters in data. However, different kinds of noise may impede the discovery of useful patterns from real-world time-series data. In this work, we focus on mitigating the interference of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-07 Irene Y. Chen , Rahul G. Krishnan , David Sontag

Bayesian models offer great flexibility for clustering applications---Bayesian nonparametrics can be used for modeling infinite mixtures, and hierarchical Bayesian models can be utilized for sharing clusters across multiple data sets. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-15 Brian Kulis , Michael I. Jordan

To effectively analyze and design cyberphysical systems (CPS), designers today have to combat the data deluge problem, i.e., the burden of processing intractably large amounts of data produced by complex models and experiments. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Xiaoqing Jin , Sanjit A. Seshia

In this paper, the decades-old clustering method k-means is revisited. The original distortion minimization model of k-means is addressed by a pure stochastic minimization procedure. In each step of the iteration, one sample is tentatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Wan-Lei Zhao , Run-Qing Chen , Hui Ye , Chong-Wah Ngo

Three robust methods for clustering multivariate time series from the point of view of generating processes are proposed. The procedures are robust versions of a fuzzy C-means model based on: (i) estimates of the quantile cross-spectral…

This work proposes a clusterization algorithm called k-Morphological Sets (k-MS), based on morphological reconstruction and heuristics. k-MS is faster than the CPU-parallel k-Means in worst case scenarios and produces enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 É. O. Rodrigues , L. Torok , P. Liatsis , J. Viterbo , A. Conci