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Deep clustering has been dominated by flat models, which split a dataset into a predefined number of groups. Although recent methods achieve an extremely high similarity with the ground truth on popular benchmarks, the information contained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michał Znaleźniak , Przemysław Rola , Patryk Kaszuba , Jacek Tabor , Marek Śmieja

Hierarchical clustering is a popular unsupervised data analysis method. For many real-world applications, we would like to exploit prior information about the data that imposes constraints on the clustering hierarchy, and is not captured by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh , Moses Charikar

We present a technique for clustering categorical data by generating many dissimilarity matrices and averaging over them. We begin by demonstrating our technique on low dimensional categorical data and comparing it to several other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-20 Saeid Amiri , Bertrand Clarke , Jennifer Clarke

Classification and clustering have been studied separately in machine learning and computer vision. Inspired by the recent success of deep learning models in solving various vision problems (e.g., object recognition, semantic segmentation)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Ali Borji , Aysegul Dundar

Data analysis and data mining are concerned with unsupervised pattern finding and structure determination in data sets. "Structure" can be understood as symmetry and a range of symmetries are expressed by hierarchy. Such symmetries directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Fionn Murtagh , Pedro Contreras

A clustering is an implicit assignment of labels of points, based on proximity to other points. It is these labels that are then used for downstream analysis (either focusing on individual clusters, or identifying representatives of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Parasaran Raman , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

In this paper, we present an accurate and scalable approach to the face clustering task. We aim at grouping a set of faces by their potential identities. We formulate this task as a link prediction problem: a link exists between two faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Zhongdao Wang , Liang Zheng , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

We address the problem of cluster identity estimation in a hierarchical federated learning setting in which users work toward learning different tasks. To overcome the challenge of task heterogeneity, users need to be grouped in a way such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Abdulmoneam Ali , Ahmed Arafa

Face clustering can provide pseudo-labels to the massive unlabeled face data and improve the performance of different face recognition models. The existing clustering methods generally aggregate the features within subgraphs that are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yuan Cao , Di Jiang , Guanqun Hou , Fan Deng , Xinjia Chen , Qiang Yang

A hierarchical scheme for clustering data is presented which applies to spaces with a high number of dimension ($N_{_{D}}>3$). The data set is first reduced to a smaller set of partitions (multi-dimensional bins). Multiple clustering…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-10-16 Kevin McIlhany , Stephen Wiggins

Consensus clustering, a fundamental task in machine learning and data analysis, aims to aggregate multiple input clusterings of a dataset, potentially based on different non-sensitive attributes, into a single clustering that best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Diptarka Chakraborty , Kushagra Chatterjee , Debarati Das , Tien Long Nguyen , Romina Nobahari

With rapidly increasing data, clustering algorithms are important tools for data analytics in modern research. They have been successfully applied to a wide range of domains; for instance, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and financial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Ka-Chun Wong

We consider the problem of subspace clustering: given points that lie on or near the union of many low-dimensional linear subspaces, recover the subspaces. To this end, one first identifies sets of points close to the same subspace and uses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-03 Dohyung Park , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

We introduce a novel criterion in clustering that seeks clusters with limited range of values associated with each cluster's elements. In clustering or classification the objective is to partition a set of objects into subsets, called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Dorit S. Hochbaum

Motivation: Clustering is a frequently used concept in variety of bioinformatical applications. We present a new method for hierarchical clustering of data called mutual information clustering (MIC) algorithm. It uses mutual information…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Alexander Kraskov , Harald Stögbauer , Ralph G. Andrzejak , Peter Grassberger

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

Face clustering is a promising way to scale up face recognition systems using large-scale unlabeled face images. It remains challenging to identify small or sparse face image clusters that we call hard clusters, which is caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yingjie Chen , Huasong Zhong , Chong Chen , Chen Shen , Jianqiang Huang , Tao Wang , Yun Liang , Qianru Sun

Clustering is spotting pattern in a group of objects and resultantly grouping the similar objects together. Objects have attributes which are not always numerical, sometimes attributes have domain or categories to which they could belong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Utkarsh Nath , Shikha Asrani , Rahul Katarya

In this paper we present a new dynamical systems algorithm for clustering in hyperspectral images. The main idea of the algorithm is that data points are \`pushed\' in the direction of increasing density and groups of pixels that end up in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 William F. Basener , Alexey Castrodad , David Messinger , Jennifer Mahle , Paul Prue

Clustering face images according to their identity has two important applications: (i) grouping a collection of face images when no external labels are associated with images, and (ii) indexing for efficient large scale face retrieval. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yichun Shi , Charles Otto , Anil K. Jain