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Traditional k-means clustering underperforms on non-convex shapes and requires the number of clusters k to be specified in advance. We propose a simple geometric enhancement: after standard k-means, each cluster center is assigned a radius…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Stefan Kober

K-means clustering is an unsupervised clustering method that requires an initial decision of number of clusters. One method to determine the number of clusters is the elbow method, a heuristic method that relies on visual representation.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-11 Indra Herdiana , M Alfin Kamal , Triyani , Mutia Nur Estri , Renny

Reduced k-means clustering is a method for clustering objects in a low-dimensional subspace. The advantage of this method is that both clustering of objects and low-dimensional subspace reflecting the cluster structure are simultaneously…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Yoshikazu Terada

The original k-means clustering method works only if the exact vectors representing the data points are known. Therefore calculating the distances from the centroids needs vector operations, since the average of abstract data points is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Balázs Szalkai

Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu

Clustering is an important exploratory data analysis technique to group objects based on their similarity. The widely used $K$-means clustering method relies on some notion of distance to partition data into a fewer number of groups. In the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-14 Yubo Zhuang , Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang

Clustering is one of the main tasks in exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics where the main objective is partitioning observations in groups. Clustering has a broad range of application in varied domains like climate,…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Saptarsi Goswami , Amlan Chakrabarti

With the huge upsurge of information in day-to-days life, it has become difficult to assemble relevant information in nick of time. But people, always are in dearth of time, they need everything quick. Hence clustering was introduced to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray , Chandrali Sarma , Monica Jha

Kernel-based clustering algorithm can identify and capture the non-linear structure in datasets, and thereby it can achieve better performance than linear clustering. However, computing and storing the entire kernel matrix occupy so large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Li Chen , Shuisheng Zhou , Jiajun Ma

Clustering is a cornerstone of data analysis that is particularly suited to identifying coherent subgroups or substructures in unlabeled data, as are generated continuously in large amounts these days. However, in many cases traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jonathan Scott , Christoph H. Lampert , David Saulpic

This paper presents a novel centroid-based heuristic algorithm, termed Kempe Swap K-Means, for constrained clustering under rigid must-link (ML) and cannot-link (CL) constraints. The algorithm employs a dual-phase iterative process: an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuxuan Ren , Shijie Deng

Many real-world clustering problems are plagued by incomplete data characterized by missing or absent features for some or all of the data instances. Traditional clustering methods cannot be directly applied to such data without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shounak Datta , Supritam Bhattacharjee , Swagatam Das

The main objective of the Multiple Kernel k-Means (MKKM) algorithm is to extract non-linear information and achieve optimal clustering by optimizing base kernel matrices. Current methods enhance information diversity and reduce redundancy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Rina Su , Yu Guo , Caiying Wu , Qiyu Jin , Tieyong Zeng

Over half a century old and showing no signs of aging, k-means remains one of the most popular data processing algorithms. As is well-known, a proper initialization of k-means is crucial for obtaining a good final solution. The recently…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Bahman Bahmani , Benjamin Moseley , Andrea Vattani , Ravi Kumar , Sergei Vassilvitskii

The $k$-means algorithm is a prevalent clustering method due to its simplicity, effectiveness, and speed. However, its main disadvantage is its high sensitivity to the initial positions of the cluster centers. The global $k$-means is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Georgios Vardakas , Aristidis Likas

Clustering partitions a dataset such that observations placed together in a group are similar but different from those in other groups. Hierarchical and $K$-means clustering are two approaches but have different strengths and weaknesses.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Anna D. Peterson , Arka P. Ghosh , Ranjan Maitra

We propose a Fourier-based approach for optimization of several clustering algorithms. Mathematically, clusters data can be described by a density function represented by the Dirac mixture distribution. The density function can be smoothed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Soheil Mehrabkhani

Hierarchical and k-medoids clustering are deterministic clustering algorithms based on pairwise distances. Using these same pairwise distances, we propose a novel stochastic clustering method based on random partition distributions. We call…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-08 David B. Dahl , Jacob Andros , J. Brandon Carter

The outlier detection problem in some cases is similar to the classification problem. For example, the main concern of clustering-based outlier detection algorithms is to find clusters and outliers, which are often regarded as noise that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-25 M. H. Marghny , Ahmed I. Taloba

Differential privacy is widely used in data analysis. State-of-the-art $k$-means clustering algorithms with differential privacy typically add an equal amount of noise to centroids for each iterative computation. In this paper, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Tianjiao Ni , Minghao Qiao , Zhili Chen , Shun Zhang , Hong Zhong