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Biclustering, also known as co-clustering or two-way clustering, simultaneously partitions the rows and columns of a data matrix to reveal submatrices with coherent patterns. Incorporating background knowledge into clustering to enhance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Antonio M. Sudoso

Convex clustering is a modern method with both hierarchical and $k$-means clustering characteristics. Although convex clustering can capture complex clustering structures hidden in data, the existing convex clustering algorithms are not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Daniel J. W. Touw , Patrick J. F. Groenen , Yoshikazu Terada

The K-means algorithm is arguably the most popular data clustering method, commonly applied to processed datasets in some "feature spaces", as is in spectral clustering. Highly sensitive to initializations, however, K-means encounters a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Feiyu Chen , Yuchen Yang , Liwei Xu , Taiping Zhang , Yin Zhang

Recent work on deep clustering has found new promising methods also for constrained clustering problems. Their typically pairwise constraints often can be used to guide the partitioning of the data. Many problems however, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jonas K. Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

We propose a new clustering approach, called optimality-based clustering, that clusters data points based on their latent decision-making preferences. We assume that each data point is a decision generated by a decision-maker who…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Zahed Shahmoradi , Taewoo Lee

Clustering algorithms are a cornerstone of machine learning applications. Recently, a quantum algorithm for clustering based on the k-means algorithm has been proposed by Kerenidis, Landman, Luongo and Prakash. Based on their work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Hideyuki Miyahara , Kazuyuki Aihara , Wolfgang Lechner

Clustering analysis is of substantial significance for data mining. The properties of big data raise higher demand for more efficient and economical distributed clustering methods. However, existing distributed clustering methods mainly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yifeng Xiao , Jiang Xue , Deyu Meng

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

Scaling clustering algorithms to massive data sets is a challenging task. Recently, several successful approaches based on data summarization methods, such as coresets and sketches, were proposed. While these techniques provide provably…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Silvio Lattanzi

As the size $n$ of datasets become massive, many commonly-used clustering algorithms (for example, $k$-means or hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) require prohibitive computational cost and memory. In this paper, we propose a…

In this paper, we investigate the learning-augmented $k$-median clustering problem, which aims to improve the performance of traditional clustering algorithms by preprocessing the point set with a predictor of error rate $\alpha \in [0,1)$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kangke Cheng , Shihong Song , Guanlin Mo , Hu Ding

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jenni Lampainen , Kaisa Joki , Napsu Karmitsa , Marko M. Mäkelä

There has been considerable work on improving popular clustering algorithm `K-means' in terms of mean squared error (MSE) and speed, both. However, most of the k-means variants tend to compute distance of each data point to each cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Siddhesh Khandelwal , Amit Awekar

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

Clustering categorical data is an integral part of data mining and has attracted much attention recently. In this paper, we present k-ANMI, a new efficient algorithm for clustering categorical data. The k-ANMI algorithm works in a way that…

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

Hierarchical clustering is a widely used method for unsupervised learning with numerous applications. However, in the application of modern algorithms, the datasets studied are usually large and dynamic. If the hierarchical clustering is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shijie Li , Weiqiang He , Ruobing Bai , Pan Peng

$k$-means clustering is a well-studied problem due to its wide applicability. Unfortunately, there exist strong theoretical limits on the performance of any algorithm for the $k$-means problem on worst-case inputs. To overcome this barrier,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jon C. Ergun , Zhili Feng , Sandeep Silwal , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Clustering is one of the main tasks in exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics where the main objective is partitioning observations in groups. Clustering has a broad range of application in varied domains like climate,…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Saptarsi Goswami , Amlan Chakrabarti

We examine methods for clustering in high dimensions. In the first part of the paper, we perform an experimental comparison between three batch clustering algorithms: the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm, a winner take all version of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Marina Meila , David Heckerman

This paper addresses the limitations of conventional vector quantization algorithms, particularly K-Means and its variant K-Means++, and investigates the Stochastic Quantization (SQ) algorithm as a scalable alternative for high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Anton Kozyriev , Vladimir Norkin