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Clustering is a fundamental task in data mining and machine learning, particularly for analyzing large-scale data. In this paper, we introduce Clust-Splitter, an efficient algorithm based on nonsmooth optimization, designed to solve the…

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A reduced-rank mixed effects model is developed for robust modeling of sparsely observed paired functional data. In this model, the curves for each functional variable are summarized using a few functional principal components, and the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-08 Huiya Zhou , Xiaomeng Yan , Lan Zhou

Fast and high quality document clustering is an important task in organizing information, search engine results obtaining from user query, enhancing web crawling and information retrieval. With the large amount of data available and with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-11 Alok Ranjan , Harish Verma , Eatesh Kandpal , Joydip Dhar

Data fusion has played an important role in data mining because high-quality data is required in a lot of applications. As on-line data may be out-of-date and errors in the data may propagate with copying and referring between sources, it…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Yunfan Chen , Lei Chen , Chen Jason Zhang

In a data matrix, we may distinguish between cases, each represented by a row vector for a statistical unit, and cells, which correspond to single entries of the data matrix. Recent developments in Robust Statistics have introduced the…

A data filtering method for cluster analysis is proposed, based on minimizing a least squares function with a weighted $\ell_0$-norm penalty. To overcome the discontinuity of the objective function, smooth non-convex functions are employed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Andrea Cristofari

Currently, data-driven discovery in biological sciences resides in finding segmentation strategies in multivariate data that produce sensible descriptions of the data. Clustering is but one of several approaches and sometimes falls short…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-12 Richard Tjörnhammar

Clustering techniques applied to multivariate data are a very useful tool in Statistics and have been fully studied in the literature. Nevertheless, these clustering methodologies are less well known when dealing with functional data. Our…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-01 Belén Pulido , Alba María Franco-Pereira , Rosa Elvira Lillo

Spectral clustering is one of the most prominent clustering approaches. The distance-based similarity is the most widely used method for spectral clustering. However, people have already noticed that this is not suitable for multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hengrui Wang , Yubo Zhang , Mingzhi Chen , Tong Yang

We propose a novel framework for sparse functional clustering that also embeds an alignment step. Sparse functional clustering means finding a grouping structure while jointly detecting the parts of the curves' domains where their grouping…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-03 Valeria Vitelli

As in other estimation scenarios, likelihood based estimation in the normal mixture set-up is highly non-robust against model misspecification and presence of outliers (apart from being an ill-posed optimization problem). A robust…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-20 Soumya Chakraborty , Ayanendranath Basu , Abhik Ghosh

Current modularity-based community detection algorithms attempt to find cluster memberships that maximize modularity within a fixed graph topology. Diverging from this conventional approach, our work introduces a novel strategy that employs…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-02-27 Yongyu Wang , Shiqi Hao , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaotian Zhuang

We consider the problem of clustering functional data according to their covariance structure. We contribute a soft clustering methodology based on the Wasserstein-Procrustes distance, where the in-between cluster variability is penalised…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-29 V. Masarotto , G. Masarotto

In today's data-driven digital era, the amount as well as complexity, such as multi-view, non-Euclidean, and multi-relational, of the collected data are growing exponentially or even faster. Clustering, which unsupervisely extracts valid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Zhao Kang , Xuanting Xie , Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan

This paper presents a novel method for clustering surfaces. The proposal involves first using basis functions in a tensor product to smooth the data and thus reduce the dimension to a finite number of coefficients, and then using these…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-04 Adriano Zanin Zambom , Qing Wang , Ronaldo Dias

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…

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Objective: The main objective of this paper is to construct a distributed clustering algorithm based upon spatial data correlation among sensor nodes and perform data accuracy for each distributed cluster at their respective cluster head…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-15 Jyotirmoy Karjee , H. S Jamadagni

Dynamic tensor data are becoming prevalent in numerous applications. Existing tensor clustering methods either fail to account for the dynamic nature of the data, or are inapplicable to a general-order tensor. Also there is often a gap…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-17 Will Wei Sun , Lexin Li

We investigate task clustering for deep-learning based multi-task and few-shot learning in a many-task setting. We propose a new method to measure task similarities with cross-task transfer performance matrix for the deep learning scenario.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Jinfeng Yi , Shiyu Chang , Saloni Potdar , Gerald Tesauro , Haoyu Wang , Bowen Zhou

Partially recorded data are frequently encountered in many applications and usually clustered by first removing incomplete cases or features with missing values, or by imputing missing values, followed by application of a clustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-20 Emily M. Goren , Ranjan Maitra