English
Related papers

Related papers: Clustering with Confidence: Finding Clusters with …

200 papers

Graph-based clustering has shown promising performance in many tasks. A key step of graph-based approach is the similarity graph construction. In general, learning graph in kernel space can enhance clustering accuracy due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhao Kang , Honghui Xu , Boyu Wang , Hongyuan Zhu , Zenglin Xu

This paper considers the problem of clustering a partially observed unweighted graph---i.e., one where for some node pairs we know there is an edge between them, for some others we know there is no edge, and for the remaining we do not know…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Yudong Chen , Ali Jalali , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

The performance (accuracy and robustness) of several clustering algorithms is studied for linearly dependent random variables in the presence of noise. It turns out that the error percentage quickly increases when the number of observations…

Applications · Statistics 2009-11-13 Pamela Minicozzi , Fabio Rapallo , Enrico Scalas , Francesco Dondero

We focus on spectral clustering of unlabeled graphs and review some results on clustering methods which achieve weak or strong consistent identification in data generated by such models. We also present a new algorithm which appears to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

This paper presents a clustering approach that allows for rigorous statistical error control similar to a statistical test. We develop estimators for both the unknown number of clusters and the clusters themselves. The estimators depend on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Michael Vogt , Matthias Schmid

Usual formulations of the clustering coefficient can be shown to be insufficient in the task of describing the local topology of very simple networks. Motivated by this, we review some alternatives in order to present an extension, the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexandre H. Abdo , A. P. S. de Moura

In many applications, data cluster. Failing to take the cluster structure into consideration generally leads to underestimated variances of point estimators and inflated type I errors in hypothesis tests. Many circumstance-dependent…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-21 Jiahua Chen , Pengfei Li , Yukun Liu , James V. Zidek

Cluster structure detection is a fundamental task for the analysis of graphs, in order to understand and to visualize their functional characteristics. Among the different cluster structure detection methods, spectral clustering is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-09 Camille Champion , Blazère Mélanie , Burcelin Rémy , Loubes Jean-Michel , Risser Laurent

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning task that consists of identifying groups of similar objects. It has numerous applications and is increasingly used in fairness-sensitive domains where objects represent individuals, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Claudio Mantuano , Manuel Kammermann , Philipp Baumann

Clustering is an essential data mining tool for analyzing and grouping similar objects. In big data applications, however, many clustering algorithms are infeasible due to their high memory requirements and/or unfavorable runtime…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Gregor Ulm , Simon Smith , Adrian Nilsson , Emil Gustavsson , Mats Jirstrand

Cluster number is typically a parameter selected at the outset in clustering problems, and while impactful, the choice can often be difficult to justify. Inspired by bioinformatics, this study examines how the nature of clusters varies with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Justin Miller , Tristram Alexander

We study the problem of clustering sequences of unlabeled point sets taken from a common metric space. Such scenarios arise naturally in applications where a system or process is observed in distinct time intervals, such as biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tamal K. Dey , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Subspace clustering refers to the task of finding a multi-subspace representation that best fits a collection of points taken from a high-dimensional space. This paper introduces an algorithm inspired by sparse subspace clustering (SSC) [In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Ehsan Elhamifar , Emmanuel J. Candès

There are many cluster analysis methods that can produce quite different clusterings on the same dataset. Cluster validation is about the evaluation of the quality of a clustering; "relative cluster validation" is about using such criteria…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-10 Christian Hennig

Model selection in clustering requires (i) to specify a suitable clustering principle and (ii) to control the model order complexity by choosing an appropriate number of clusters depending on the noise level in the data. We advocate an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Joachim M. Buhmann

In this article, we propose the use of partitioning and clustering methods as an alternative to Gaussian quadrature for stochastic collocation. The key idea is to use cluster centers as the nodes for collocation. In this way, we can extend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-16 A. W. Eggels , D. T. Crommelin , J. A. S. Witteveen

Cluster analysis is a popular unsupervised learning tool used in many disciplines to identify heterogeneous sub-populations within a sample. However, validating cluster analysis results and determining the number of clusters in a data set…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-26 Ali Turfah , Xiaoquan Wen

Clustering a graph means identifying internally dense subgraphs which are only sparsely interconnected. Formalizations of this notion lead to measures that quantify the quality of a clustering and to algorithms that actually find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Robert Görke , Andrea Schumm , Dorothea Wagner

Co-clustering is a specific type of clustering that addresses the problem of finding groups of objects without necessarily considering all attributes. This technique has shown to have more consistent results in high-dimensional sparse data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Yuri Santos , Jônata Tyska , Vania Bogorny

In clustering problems, a central decision-maker is given a complete metric graph over vertices and must provide a clustering of vertices that minimizes some objective function. In fair clustering problems, vertices are endowed with a color…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Seyed A. Esmaeili , Brian Brubach , Leonidas Tsepenekas , John P. Dickerson