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Gathering training data is a key step of any supervised learning task, and it is both critical and expensive. Critical, because the quantity and quality of the training data has a high impact on the performance of the learned function.…

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We study large-scale, distributed graph clustering. Given an undirected graph, our objective is to partition the nodes into disjoint sets called clusters. A cluster should contain many internal edges while being sparsely connected to other…

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We present a technique for clustering categorical data by generating many dissimilarity matrices and averaging over them. We begin by demonstrating our technique on low dimensional categorical data and comparing it to several other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-20 Saeid Amiri , Bertrand Clarke , Jennifer Clarke

Number of connected devices is steadily increasing and these devices continuously generate data streams. Real-time processing of data streams is arousing interest despite many challenges. Clustering is one of the most suitable methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Alaettin Zubaroğlu , Volkan Atalay

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 one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

Currently, density-based clustering algorithms are widely applied because they can detect clusters with arbitrary shapes. However, they perform poorly in measuring global density, determining reasonable cluster centers or structures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mingjie Cai , Zhishan Wu , Qingguo Li , Feng Xu , Jie Zhou

Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu

With the rapid advancement of next-generation satellite networks, addressing clustering tasks, user grouping, and efficient link management has become increasingly critical to optimize network performance and reduce interference. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tam Ninh Thi-Thanh , Nguyen Minh Quan , Do Son Tung , Trinh Van Chien , Hung Tran

This paper presents a distributed resource selection mechanism for diverse cloud-edge environments, enabling dynamic and context-aware allocation of resources to meet the demands of complex distributed applications. By distributing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Quentin Renau , Amjad Ullah , Emma Hart

Community detection, which focuses on clustering nodes or detecting communities in (mostly) a single network, is a problem of considerable practical interest and has received a great deal of attention in the research community. While being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Lizhen Lin

This paper introduces a new framework for clustering in a distributed network called Distributed Clustering based on Distributional Kernel (K) or KDC that produces the final clusters based on the similarity with respect to the distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Hang Zhang , Yang Xu , Lei Gong , Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting

Dataset distillation provides an effective approach to reduce memory and computational costs by optimizing a compact dataset that achieves performance comparable to the full original. However, for large-scale datasets and complex deep…

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Mixture models extend the toolbox of clustering methods available to the data analyst. They allow for an explicit definition of the cluster shapes and structure within a probabilistic framework and exploit estimation and inference…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-15 Bettina Grün

Density-based clustering methodology has been widely considered in the statistical literature for classifying Euclidean observations. However, this approach has not been contemplated for directional data yet. In this work, directional…

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We have proposed a model based upon flocking on a complex network, and then developed two clustering algorithms on the basis of it. In the algorithms, firstly a \textit{k}-nearest neighbor (knn) graph as a weighted and directed graph is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-31 Qiang Li , Yan He , Jing-ping Jiang

With the rapid development of online social media, online shopping sites and cyber-physical systems, heterogeneous information networks have become increasingly popular and content-rich over time. In many cases, such networks contain…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Yizhou Sun , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jiawei Han

Density-based clustering techniques are used in a wide range of data mining applications. One of their most attractive features con- sists in not making use of prior knowledge of the number of clusters that a dataset contains along with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Roberto Pirrone , Vincenzo Cannella , Sergio Monteleone , Gabriella Giordano

In recent years, crowdsourcing, aka human aided computation has emerged as an effective platform for solving problems that are considered complex for machines alone. Using human is time-consuming and costly due to monetary compensations.…

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In designing wireless sensor networks, it is important to reduce energy dissipation and prolong network lifetime. In this paper, a new model with energy and monitored objects heterogeneity is proposed for heterogeneous wireless sensor…

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