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Factorial clustering methods have been developed in recent years thanks to the improving of computational power. These methods perform a linear transformation of data and a clustering on transformed data optimizing a common criterion.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-05 Mireille Gettler Summa , Francesco Palumbo , Cristina Tortora

Clustering is an unsupervised learning problem that aims to partition unlabelled data points into groups with similar features. Traditional clustering algorithms provide limited insight into the groups they find as their main focus is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

The problem of estimating the number of clusters (say k) is one of the major challenges for the partitional clustering. This paper proposes an algorithm named k-SCC to estimate the optimal k in categorical data clustering. For the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Duy-Tai Dinh , Tsutomu Fujinami , Van-Nam Huynh

The explosion in the amount of data available for analysis often necessitates a transition from batch to incremental clustering methods, which process one element at a time and typically store only a small subset of the data. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Margareta Ackerman , Sanjoy Dasgupta

One basic requirement of many studies is the necessity of classifying data. Clustering is a proposed method for summarizing networks. Clustering methods can be divided into two categories named model-based approaches and algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Raheleh Namayandeh , Farzad Didehvar , Zahra Shojaei

In many applications of X-ray computed tomography, an unsupervised segmentation of the reconstructed 3D volumes forms an important step in the image processing chain for further investigation of the digitized object. Therefore, the goal is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Thomas Lang

Nowadays, many machine learning procedures are available on the shelve and may be used easily to calibrate predictive models on supervised data. However, when the input data consists of more than one unknown cluster, and when different…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-18 Aurélie Fisher , Mathilde Mougeot , Sothea Has

Real-world networks often come with side information that can help to improve the performance of network analysis tasks such as clustering. Despite a large number of empirical and theoretical studies conducted on network clustering methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-29 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi , Christophe Biernacki

Clustering is ubiquitous in data analysis, including analysis of time series. It is inherently subjective: different users may prefer different clusterings for a particular dataset. Semi-supervised clustering addresses this by allowing the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-03 Toon Van Craenendonck , Wannes Meert , Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

The clustering method based on graph models has garnered increased attention for its widespread applicability across various knowledge domains. Its adaptability to integrate seamlessly with other relevant applications endows the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xinrun Xu , Manying Lv , Zhanbiao Lian , Yurong Wu , Jin Yan , Shan Jiang , Zhiming Ding

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

Fast and high quality document clustering is an important task in organizing information, search engine results obtaining from user query, enhancing web crawling and information retrieval. With the large amount of data available and with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-11 Alok Ranjan , Harish Verma , Eatesh Kandpal , Joydip Dhar

Semi-supervised clustering seeks to augment traditional clustering methods by incorporating side information provided via human expertise in order to increase the semantic meaningfulness of the resulting clusters. However, most current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Caiming Xiong , David Johnson , Jason J. Corso

Clustering algorithms are often used to find subpopulations in exploratory data analysis workflows. Not only the clusters themselves, but also their shape can represent meaningful subpopulations. In this paper, we present FLASC, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 D. M. Bot , J. Peeters , J. Liesenborgs , J. Aerts

A computational theory for clustering and a semi-supervised clustering algorithm is presented. Clustering is defined to be the obtainment of groupings of data such that each group contains no anomalies with respect to a chosen grouping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nassir Mohammad

In machine learning it is common to interpret each data point as a vector in Euclidean space. However the data may actually be functional i.e.\ each data point is a function of some variable such as time and the function is discretely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Stephen Tierney , Junbin Gao , Yi Guo , Zheng Zhang

Nowadays, financial data analysis is becoming increasingly important in the business market. As companies collect more and more data from daily operations, they expect to extract useful knowledge from existing collected data to help make…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-09-28 Fan Cai , Nhien-An Le-Khac , Tahar Kechadi

This work presents an unsupervised deep discriminant analysis for clustering. The method is based on deep neural networks and aims to minimize the intra-cluster discrepancy and maximize the inter-cluster discrepancy in an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Jinyu Cai , Wenzhong Guo , Jicong Fan

We present a numerical method to identify regions of phase space that are approximately retained in a mobile compact neighbourhood over a finite time duration. Our approach is based on spatio-temporal clustering of trajectory data. The main…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Gary Froyland , Kathrin Padberg-Gehle

Most classification methods are based on the assumption that data conforms to a stationary distribution. The machine learning domain currently suffers from a lack of classification techniques that are able to detect the occurrence of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-01-05 Alzennyr Da Silva , Yves Lechevallier , Fabrice Rossi , Francisco De A. T. De Carvahlo