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We propose a simple and efficient clustering method for high-dimensional data with a large number of clusters. Our algorithm achieves high-performance by evaluating distances of datapoints with a subset of the cluster centres. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Georgios Exarchakis , Omar Oubari , Gregor Lenz

Clustering is a fundamental approach to understanding data patterns, wherein the intuitive Euclidean distance space is commonly adopted. However, this is not the case for implicit cluster distributions reflected by qualitative attribute…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Mingjie Zhao , Sen Feng , Yiqun Zhang , Mengke Li , Yang Lu , Yiu-ming Cheung

We provide a general framework for getting expected linear time constant factor approximations (and in many cases FPTASs) to several well-known problems in Computational Geometry, such as $k$-center clustering and farthest nearest neighbor.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sariel Har-Peled , Banjamin Raichel

Clustering is an effective technique in data mining to generate groups that are the matter of interest. Among various clustering approaches, the family of k-means algorithms and min-cut algorithms gain most popularity due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang

Clustering is an important part of many modern data analysis pipelines, including network analysis and data retrieval. There are many different clustering algorithms developed by various communities, and it is often not clear which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Maria-Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Manuel Lang

This paper studies the optimality of kernel methods in high-dimensional data clustering. Recent works have studied the large sample performance of kernel clustering in the high-dimensional regime, where Euclidean distance becomes less…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-03 Leena Chennuru Vankadara , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

In a standard cluster analysis, such as k-means, in addition to clusters locations and distances between them, it's important to know if they are connected or well separated from each other. The main focus of this paper is discovering the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-22 Evgeny Bauman , Konstantin Bauman

Cluster analysis often serves as the initial step in the process of data classification. In this paper, the problem of clustering different length input data is considered. The edit distance as the minimum number of elementary edit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Slobodan Petrovic , Gonzalo Alvarez

In this short note, we give the convergence analysis of the policy in the recent famous policy mirror descent (PMD). We mainly consider the unregularized setting following [11] with generalized Bregman divergence. The difference is that we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Dachao Lin , Zhihua Zhang

Time series clustering is a central machine learning task with applications in many fields. While the majority of the methods focus on real-valued time series, very few works consider series with discrete response. In this paper, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-25 Ángel López Oriona , Christian Weiss , José Antonio Vilar

In this paper, we define a distance for the HSL colour system. Next, the proposed distance is used for a fuzzy colour clustering algorithm construction. The presented algorithm is related to the well-known fuzzy c-means algorithm. Finally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Vasile Patrascu

Although distance measures are used in many machine learning algorithms, the literature on the context-independent selection and evaluation of distance measures is limited in the sense that prior knowledge is used. In cluster analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Michael C. Thrun

We study the problem of clustering sequences of unlabeled point sets taken from a common metric space. Such scenarios arise naturally in applications where a system or process is observed in distinct time intervals, such as biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tamal K. Dey , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

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

Distance-based clustering and classification are widely used in various fields to group mixed numeric and categorical data. In many algorithms, a predefined distance measurement is used to cluster data points based on their dissimilarity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jesse S. Ghashti , John R. J. Thompson

We develop a new class of distances for objects including lines, hyperplanes, and trajectories, based on the distance to a set of landmarks. These distances easily and interpretably map objects to a Euclidean space, are simple to compute,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jeff M. Phillips , Pingfan Tang

Given the increasing popularity of algorithms for overlapping clustering, in particular in social network analysis, quantitative measures are needed to measure the accuracy of a method. Given a set of true clusters, and the set of clusters…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-05 Aaron F. McDaid , Derek Greene , Neil Hurley

Angular Minkowski $p$-distance is a dissimilarity measure that is obtained by replacing Euclidean distance in the definition of cosine dissimilarity with other Minkowski $p$-distances. Cosine dissimilarity is frequently used with datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Oliver Urs Lenz , Chris Cornelis

We investigate the complexity of solving stable or perturbation-resilient instances of $k$-Means and $k$-Median clustering in fixed dimension Euclidean metrics (more generally doubling metrics). The notion of stable (perturbation resilient)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zachary Friggstad , Kamyar Khodamoradi , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

This paper introduces kdiff, a novel kernel-based measure for estimating distances between instances of time series, random fields and other forms of structured data. This measure is based on the idea of matching distributions that only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-01 Srinjoy Das , Hrushikesh Mhaskar , Alexander Cloninger