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The success of deep learning hinges on enormous data and large models, which require labor-intensive annotations and heavy computation costs. Subset selection is a fundamental problem that can play a key role in identifying smaller portions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Srikumar Ramalingam , Pranjal Awasthi , Sanjiv Kumar

Clustering is widely used in unsupervised learning to find homogeneous groups of observations within a dataset. However, clustering mixed-type data remains a challenge, as few existing approaches are suited for this task. This study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Badih Ghattas , Alvaro Sanchez San-Benito

Distributed Computation has been a recent trend in engineering research. Parallel Computation is widely used in different areas of Data Mining, Image Processing, Simulating Models, Aerodynamics and so forth. One of the major usage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-28 C Rashmi

In general, the clustering problem is NP-hard, and global optimality cannot be established for non-trivial instances. For high-dimensional data, distance-based methods for clustering or classification face an additional difficulty, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Tsvetan Asamov , Adi Ben-Israel

This paper presents universal algorithms for clustering problems, including the widely studied $k$-median, $k$-means, and $k$-center objectives. The input is a metric space containing all potential client locations. The algorithm must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Arun Ganesh , Bruce M. Maggs , Debmalya Panigrahi

Performance of clustering algorithms is evaluated with the help of accuracy metrics. There is a great diversity of clustering algorithms, which are key components of many data analysis and exploration systems. However, there exist only few…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Artem Lutov , Mourad Khayati , Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

Data clustering is an approach to seek for structure in sets of complex data, i.e., sets of "objects". The main objective is to identify groups of objects which are similar to each other, e.g., for classification. Here, an introduction to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-02-17 Alexander K. Hartmann

Kernel-based K-means clustering has gained popularity due to its simplicity and the power of its implicit non-linear representation of the data. A dominant concern is the memory requirement since memory scales as the square of the number of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-05 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki , Stephen Becker

This paper presents a neural network-based end-to-end clustering framework. We design a novel strategy to utilize the contrastive criteria for pushing data-forming clusters directly from raw data, in addition to learning a feature embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zsolt Kira

A new cluster analysis method, $K$-quantiles clustering, is introduced. $K$-quantiles clustering can be computed by a simple greedy algorithm in the style of the classical Lloyd's algorithm for $K$-means. It can be applied to large and…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-12 Christian Hennig , Cinzia Viroli , Laura Anderlucci

A novel framework for consensus clustering is presented which has the ability to determine both the number of clusters and a final solution using multiple algorithms. A consensus similarity matrix is formed from an ensemble using multiple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-06 Shaina Race , Carl Meyer

Comparison of three kind of the clustering and find cost function and loss function and calculate them. Error rate of the clustering methods and how to calculate the error percentage always be one on the important factor for evaluating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Kamran Kowsari

Conventional machine learning algorithms cannot be applied until a data matrix is available to process. When the data matrix needs to be obtained from a relational database via a feature extraction query, the computation cost can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Ryan Curtin , Ben Moseley , Hung Q. Ngo , XuanLong Nguyen , Dan Olteanu , Maximilian Schleich

In this paper, we propose an acceleration of the exact k-means++ algorithm using geometric information, specifically the Triangle Inequality and additional norm filters, along with a two-step sampling procedure. Our experiments demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Guillem Rodríguez Corominas , Maria J. Blesa , Christian Blum

The $k$-means algorithm is a prevalent clustering method due to its simplicity, effectiveness, and speed. However, its main disadvantage is its high sensitivity to the initial positions of the cluster centers. The global $k$-means is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Georgios Vardakas , Aristidis Likas

Feature selection is an important and challenging task in high dimensional clustering. For example, in genomics, there may only be a small number of genes that are differentially expressed, which are informative to the overall clustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-07 Xiangrui Zeng , Hongyu Zheng

Kernel $k$-means clustering can correctly identify and extract a far more varied collection of cluster structures than the linear $k$-means clustering algorithm. However, kernel $k$-means clustering is computationally expensive when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Shusen Wang , Alex Gittens , Michael W. Mahoney

Clustering algorithms are iterative and have complex data access patterns that result in many small random memory accesses. The performance of parallel implementations suffer from synchronous barriers for each iteration and skewed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Disa Mhembere , Da Zheng , Carey E. Priebe , Joshua T. Vogelstein , Randal Burns

This paper describes a method for clustering data that are spread out over large regions and which dimensions are on different scales of measurement. Such an algorithm was developed to implement a robotics application consisting in sorting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Joris Guérin , Olivier Gibaru , Stéphane Thiery , Eric Nyiri

Clustering is a powerful machine learning technique that groups "similar" data points based on their characteristics. Many clustering algorithms work by approximating the minimization of an objective function, namely the sum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Vaibhaw Kumar , Gideon Bass , Casey Tomlin , Joseph Dulny