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We present a hierarchical maximum-margin clustering method for unsupervised data analysis. Our method extends beyond flat maximum-margin clustering, and performs clustering recursively in a top-down manner. We propose an effective greedy…

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We consider the problem of simultaneously clustering and learning a linear representation of data lying close to a union of low-dimensional manifolds, a fundamental task in machine learning and computer vision. When the manifolds are…

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As the data size in Machine Learning fields grows exponentially, it is inevitable to accelerate the computation by utilizing the ever-growing large number of available cores provided by high-performance computing hardware. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kun Li , Liang Yuan , Yunquan Zhang , Gongwei Chen

The hierarchical structure inherent in many real-world datasets makes the modeling of such hierarchies a crucial objective in both unsupervised and supervised machine learning. While recent advancements have introduced deep architectures…

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Community detection in graphs is a problem that is likely to be relevant whenever network data appears, and consequently the problem has received much attention with many different methods and algorithms applied. However, many of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Vilhelm Agdur

Hierarchical clustering based on pairwise similarities is a common tool used in a broad range of scientific applications. However, in many problems it may be expensive to obtain or compute similarities between the items to be clustered.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Brian Eriksson , Gautam Dasarathy , Aarti Singh , Robert Nowak

One of the main challenges for hierarchical clustering is how to appropriately identify the representative points in the lower level of the cluster tree, which are going to be utilized as the roots in the higher level of the cluster tree…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Wen-Bo Xie , Zhen Liu , Jaideep Srivastava

Subspace clustering is an unsupervised clustering technique designed to cluster data that is supported on a union of linear subspaces, with each subspace defining a cluster with dimension lower than the ambient space. Many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Benjamin D. Haeffele , Chong You , René Vidal

Clustering is a widely used technique in data mining applications for discovering patterns in underlying data. Most traditional clustering algorithms are limited to handling datasets that contain either numeric or categorical attributes.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

Getting a robust time-series clustering with best choice of distance measure and appropriate representation is always a challenge. We propose a novel mechanism to identify the clusters combining learned compact representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Soma Bandyopadhyay , Anish Datta , Arpan Pal

One of the most widely used techniques for data clustering is agglomerative clustering. Such algorithms have been long used across many different fields ranging from computational biology to social sciences to computer vision in part…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Maria-Florina Balcan , Yingyu Liang , Pramod Gupta

Clustering techniques are very attractive for extracting and identifying patterns in datasets. However, their application to very large spatial datasets presents numerous challenges such as high-dimensionality data, heterogeneity, and high…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Malika Bendechache , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

Clustering can be used to extract insights from data or to verify some of the assumptions held by the domain experts, namely data segmentation. In the literature, few methods can be applied in clustering qualitative values using the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Diogo Seca , João Mendes-Moreira , Tiago Mendes-Neves , Ricardo Sousa

Matrix valued data has become increasingly prevalent in many applications. Most of the existing clustering methods for this type of data are tailored to the mean model and do not account for the dependence structure of the features, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-07 Inbeom Lee , Siyi Deng , Yang Ning

Clustering is a popular machine learning technique for data mining that can process and analyze datasets to automatically reveal sample distribution patterns. Since the ubiquitous categorical data naturally lack a well-defined metric space…

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Many complex networks depend upon biological entities for their preservation. Such entities, from human cognition to evolution, must first encode and then replicate those networks under marked resource constraints. Networks that survive are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-02 Christopher W. Lynn , Danielle S. Bassett

Subspace clustering has become widely adopted for the unsupervised analysis of hyperspectral images (HSIs). Recent model-aware deep subspace clustering methods often use a two-stage framework, involving the calculation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xianlu Li , Nicolas Nadisic , Shaoguang Huang , Nikos Deligiannis , Aleksandra Pižurica

Clustering is a fundamental data mining tool that aims to divide data into groups of similar items. Generally, intuition about clustering reflects the ideal case -- exact data sets endowed with flawless dissimilarity between individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Margareta Ackerman , Jarrod Moore

In this paper, we consider the problem of subspace clustering in presence of contiguous noise, occlusion and disguise. We argue that self-expressive representation of data in current state-of-the-art approaches is severely sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Maryam Abdolali , Mohammad Rahmati

We address the problem of communicating domain knowledge from a user to the designer of a clustering algorithm. We propose a protocol in which the user provides a clustering of a relatively small random sample of a data set. The algorithm…

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