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Deep clustering incorporates embedding into clustering to find a lower-dimensional space appropriate for clustering. In this paper, we propose a novel deep clustering framework with self-supervision using pairwise similarities (DCSS). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Narges Armanfard

$k$-means clustering is NP-hard in the worst case but previous work has shown efficient algorithms assuming the optimal $k$-means clusters are \emph{stable} under additive or multiplicative perturbation of data. This has two caveats. First,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis , Apoorv Vikram Singh

Deep Learning (DL) has shown great promise in the unsupervised task of clustering. That said, while in classical (i.e., non-deep) clustering the benefits of the nonparametric approach are well known, most deep-clustering methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Meitar Ronen , Shahaf E. Finder , Oren Freifeld

This paper presents Two-Stage LKPLO, a novel multi-stage outlier detection framework that overcomes the coexisting limitations of conventional projection-based methods: their reliance on a fixed statistical metric and their assumption of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Akira Tamamori

A novel nonparametric clustering algorithm is proposed using the interpoint distances between the members of the data to reveal the inherent clustering structure existing in the given set of data, where we apply the classical nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-02 Soumita Modak

Boundary point detection aims to outline the external contour structure of clusters and enhance the inter-cluster discrimination, thus bolstering the performance of the downstream classification and clustering tasks. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Dehua Peng , Zhipeng Gui , Jie Gui , Huayi Wu

In this paper we are going to introduce a new nearest neighbours based approach to clustering, and compare it with previous solutions; the resulting algorithm, which takes inspiration from both DBscan and minimum spanning tree approaches,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Marcello La Rocca

Many real-world clustering problems are plagued by incomplete data characterized by missing or absent features for some or all of the data instances. Traditional clustering methods cannot be directly applied to such data without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shounak Datta , Supritam Bhattacharjee , Swagatam Das

Fuzzy K-Means clustering is a critical technique in unsupervised data analysis. Unlike traditional hard clustering algorithms such as K-Means, it allows data points to belong to multiple clusters with varying degrees of membership,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Yichen Bao , Han Lu , Quanxue Gao

Center-based clustering is a pivotal primitive for unsupervised learning and data analysis. A popular variant is undoubtedly the k-means problem, which, given a set $P$ of points from a metric space and a parameter $k<|P|$, requires to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Enrico Dandolo , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

This work proposes a clusterization algorithm called k-Morphological Sets (k-MS), based on morphological reconstruction and heuristics. k-MS is faster than the CPU-parallel k-Means in worst case scenarios and produces enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 É. O. Rodrigues , L. Torok , P. Liatsis , J. Viterbo , A. Conci

The popular K-means clustering algorithm potentially suffers from a major weakness for further analysis or interpretation. Some cluster may have disproportionately more (or fewer) points from one of the subpopulations in terms of some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guancheng Zhou , Haiping Xu , Hongkang Xu , Chenyu Li , Donghui Yan

The classical k-means clustering, based on distances computed from all data features, cannot be directly applied to incomplete data with missing values. A natural extension of k-means to missing data, namely k-POD, uses only the observed…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-17 Xin Guan , Yoshikazu Terada

Clustering is a long-standing research problem and a fundamental tool in AI and data analysis. The traditional k-center problem, a fundamental theoretical challenge in clustering, has a best possible approximation ratio of 2, and any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chaoqi Jia , Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao , Zhigang Lu , Chao Chen , Jason Xue

We present sDBSCAN, a scalable density-based clustering algorithm in high dimensions with cosine distance. Utilizing the neighborhood-preserving property of random projections, sDBSCAN can quickly identify core points and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haochuan Xu , Ninh Pham

Clustering is a separation of data into groups of similar objects. Every group called cluster consists of objects that are similar to one another and dissimilar to objects of other groups. In this paper, the K-Means algorithm is implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-03 P. Ashok , G. M Kadhar Nawaz , E. Elayaraja , V. Vadivel

Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) are powerful tools for modeling and solving a large number of combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, it has been shown that Large Neighborhood Search (LNS), as a heuristic algorithm, can find high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Taoan Huang , Aaron Ferber , Yuandong Tian , Bistra Dilkina , Benoit Steiner

We design a new algorithm for the Euclidean $k$-means problem that operates in the local model of differential privacy. Unlike in the non-private literature, differentially private algorithms for the $k$-means objective incur both additive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Uri Stemmer

The minimum spanning tree clustering algorithm is capable of detecting clusters with irregular boundaries. In this paper we propose two minimum spanning trees based clustering algorithm. The first algorithm produces k clusters with center…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-05-26 S. John Peter , S. P. Victor

Community detection in network analysis has become more intricate due to the recent hike in social networks (Cai et al., 2024). This paper suggests a new approach named ELPMeans that strives to address this challenge. For community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Shahin Momenzadeh , Rojiar Pir Mohammadiani