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This paper proposes a centroid-based clustering algorithm which is capable of clustering data-points with n-features, without having to specify the number of clusters to be formed. The core logic behind the algorithm is a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Rabindra Lamsal , Shubham Katiyar

This study investigates clustered federated learning (FL), one of the formulations of FL with non-i.i.d. data, where the devices are partitioned into clusters and each cluster optimally fits its data with a localized model. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xue Yu , Ziyi Liu , Wu Wang , Yifan Sun

Missing data are a concern in many real world data sets and imputation methods are often needed to estimate the values of missing data, but data sets with excessive missingness and high dimensionality challenge most approaches to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-22 Andrew J. Becker , James P. Bagrow

Deep image clustering methods are typically evaluated on small-scale balanced classification datasets while feature-based $k$-means has been applied on proprietary billion-scale datasets. In this work, we explore the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Nikolas Adaloglou , Felix Michels , Kaspar Senft , Diana Petrusheva , Markus Kollmann

In sensor networks, it is not always practical to set up a fusion center. Therefore, there is need for fully decentralized clustering algorithms. Decentralized clustering algorithms should minimize the amount of data exchanged between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-13 Elsa Dupraz , Dominique Pastor , François-Xavier Socheleau

Centroid-based methods including k-means and fuzzy c-means are known as effective and easy-to-implement approaches to clustering purposes in many applications. However, these algorithms cannot be directly applied to supervised tasks. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Pooya Ashtari , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Hamid Beigy

Clustering is widely used in unsupervised learning to find homogeneous groups of observations within a dataset. However, clustering mixed-type data remains a challenge, as few existing approaches are suited for this task. This study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Badih Ghattas , Alvaro Sanchez San-Benito

K-means plays a vital role in data mining and is the simplest and most widely used algorithm under the Euclidean Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) model. However, its performance drastically drops when applied to vast amounts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Rustam Mussabayev , Nenad Mladenovic , Bassem Jarboui , Ravil Mussabayev

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

While K-means is known to be a standard clustering algorithm, its performance may be compromised due to the presence of outliers and high-dimensional noisy variables. This paper proposes adaptively robust and sparse K-means clustering…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-08 Hao Li , Shonosuke Sugasawa , Shota Katayama

This work presents a novel variant of the Firefly Algorithm (FA) for data clustering, addressing limitations of traditional methods like K-Means that struggle with non-uniform cluster shapes, densities, and the need for pre-defining the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 MKA Ariyaratne , Azwirman Gusrialdi , Yury Nikulin , Jaakko Peltonen

Clustering is a usual unsupervised machine learning technique for grouping the data points into groups based upon similar features. We focus here on unsupervised clustering for contaminated data, i.e in the case where K-medians should be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Sobihan Surendran

We are concerned in clustering continuous data sets subject to non-ignorable missingness. We perform clustering with a specific semi-parametric mixture, under the assumption of conditional independence given the component. The mixture model…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-20 Marie Du Roy de Chaumaray , Matthieu Marbac

We develop new algorithmic methods with provable guarantees for feature selection in regard to categorical data clustering. While feature selection is one of the most common approaches to reduce dimensionality in practice, most of the known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Kirill Simonov

This paper introduces a unified approach to cluster refinement and anomaly detection in datasets. We propose a novel algorithm that iteratively reduces the intra-cluster variance of N clusters until a global minimum is reached, yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vardhan Shorewala , Shivam Shorewala

K-Means clustering still plays an important role in many computer vision problems. While the conventional Lloyd method, which alternates between centroid update and cluster assignment, is primarily used in practice, it may converge to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Huu Le , Anders Eriksson , Thanh-Toan Do , Michael Milford

We present a nonparametric method for selecting informative features in high-dimensional clustering problems. We start with a screening step that uses a test for multimodality. Then we apply kernel density estimation and mode clustering to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Larry Wasserman , Martin Azizyan , Aarti Singh

In a real-world data set there is always the possibility, rather high in our opinion, that different features may have different degrees of relevance. Most machine learning algorithms deal with this fact by either selecting or deselecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Renato Cordeiro de Amorim

We develop novel clustering algorithms for functional data when the number of clusters $K$ is unknown and also when it is prefixed. These algorithms are developed based on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) measure between two sets of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-16 Sourav Chakrabarty , Anirvan Chakraborty , Shyamal K. De

In this paper we present a novel iterative multiphase clustering technique for efficiently clustering high dimensional data points. For this purpose we implement clustering feature (CF) tree on a real data set and a Gaussian density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Chandrima Sarkar , Atanu Roy