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Deep learning models have become widely adopted in various domains, but their performance heavily relies on a vast amount of data. Datasets often contain a large number of irrelevant or redundant samples, which can lead to computational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Boris Bergsma , Marta Brzezinska , Oleg V. Yazyev , Milos Cernak

Finding the number of meaningful clusters in an unlabeled dataset is important in many applications. Regularized k-means algorithm is a possible approach frequently used to find the correct number of distinct clusters in datasets. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Behzad Kamgar-Parsi , Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi

This paper presents a new way of selecting an initial solution for the k-modes algorithm that allows for a notion of mathematical fairness and a leverage of the data that the common initialisations from literature do not. The method, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Henry Wilde , Vincent Knight , Jonathan Gillard

Recent spectral clustering methods are a propular and powerful technique for data clustering. These methods need to solve the eigenproblem whose computational complexity is $O(n^3)$, where $n$ is the number of data samples. In this paper, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-11-26 Chunjing Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaoou Tang

Advances made to the traditional clustering algorithms solves the various problems such as curse of dimensionality and sparsity of data for multiple attributes. The traditional H-K clustering algorithm can solve the randomness and apriority…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Rashmi Paithankar , Bharat Tidke

The classical center based clustering problems such as $k$-means/median/center assume that the optimal clusters satisfy the locality property that the points in the same cluster are close to each other. A number of clustering problems arise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

We study feature selection for $k$-means clustering. Although the literature contains many methods with good empirical performance, algorithms with provable theoretical behavior have only recently been developed. Unfortunately, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Christos Boutsidis , Malik Magdon-Ismail

The K-means algorithm is a widely used clustering algorithm that offers simplicity and efficiency. However, the traditional K-means algorithm uses the random method to determine the initial cluster centers, which make clustering results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Jie Yang , Yu-Kai Wang , Xin Yao , Chin-Teng Lin

We present an empirical analysis of data structures for approximate nearest neighbor searching. We compare the well-known optimized kd-tree splitting method against two alternative splitting methods. The first, called the sliding-midpoint…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Songrit Maneewongvatana , David M. Mount

This paper provides new algorithms for distributed clustering for two popular center-based objectives, k-median and k-means. These algorithms have provable guarantees and improve communication complexity over existing approaches. Following…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Maria Florina Balcan , Steven Ehrlich , Yingyu Liang

Clustering algorithms are among the most widely used data mining methods due to their exploratory power and being an initial preprocessing step that paves the way for other techniques. But the problem of calculating the optimal number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Md Nishat Raihan

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

Comparison of three kind of the clustering and find cost function and loss function and calculate them. Error rate of the clustering methods and how to calculate the error percentage always be one on the important factor for evaluating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Kamran Kowsari

Clustering plays a crucial role in computer science, facilitating data analysis and problem-solving across numerous fields. By partitioning large datasets into meaningful groups, clustering reveals hidden structures and relationships within…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Aryan Esmailpour , Stavros Sintos

Algorithms for clustering points in metric spaces is a long-studied area of research. Clustering has seen a multitude of work both theoretically, in understanding the approximation guarantees possible for many objective functions such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Maria-Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Colin White

Clustering is one of the most fundamental and wide-spread techniques in exploratory data analysis. Yet, the basic approach to clustering has not really changed: a practitioner hand-picks a task-specific clustering loss to optimize and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yibo Jiang , Nakul Verma

Biclustering is the task of simultaneously clustering the rows and columns of the data matrix into different subgroups such that the rows and columns within a subgroup exhibit similar patterns. In this paper, we consider the case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Nicolas Fraiman , Zichao Li

The $k$-means clustering algorithm is popular but has the following main drawbacks: 1) the number of clusters, $k$, needs to be provided by the user in advance, 2) it can easily reach local minima with randomly selected initial centers, 3)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Fengfu Li , Hong Qiao , Bo Zhang

This paper presents a practical global optimization algorithm for the K-center clustering problem, which aims to select K samples as the cluster centers to minimize the maximum within-cluster distance. This algorithm is based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Jiayang Ren , Ningning You , Kaixun Hua , Chaojie Ji , Yankai Cao

Motivated by recent work in computational social choice, we extend the metric distortion framework to clustering problems. Given a set of $n$ agents located in an underlying metric space, our goal is to partition them into $k$ clusters,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jakob Burkhardt , Ioannis Caragiannis , Karl Fehrs , Matteo Russo , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Sudarshan Shyam