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We study the problem of optimal estimation of the density cluster tree under various assumptions on the underlying density. Building up from the seminal work of Chaudhuri et al. [2014], we formulate a new notion of clustering consistency…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Daren Wang , Xinyang Lu , Alessandro Rinaldo

DBSCAN is a popular density-based clustering algorithm that has many different applications in practice. However, the running time of DBSCAN in high-dimensional space or general metric space ({\em e.g.,} clustering a set of texts by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Guanlin Mo , Shihong Song , Hu Ding

Density Based Clustering are a type of Clustering methods using in data mining for extracting previously unknown patterns from data sets. There are a number of density based clustering methods such as DBSCAN, OPTICS, DENCLUE, VDBSCAN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Rupanka Bhuyan , Samarjeet Borah

DBSCAN is a popular density-based clustering algorithm. It computes the $\epsilon$-neighborhood graph of a dataset and uses the connected components of the high-degree nodes to decide the clusters. However, the full neighborhood graph may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Heinrich Jiang , Jennifer Jang , Jakub Łącki

Cluster analysis plays a crucial role in database mining, and one of the most widely used algorithms in this field is DBSCAN. However, DBSCAN has several limitations, such as difficulty in handling high-dimensional large-scale data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Weibing Zhao

In this paper we present a new dynamical systems algorithm for clustering in hyperspectral images. The main idea of the algorithm is that data points are \`pushed\' in the direction of increasing density and groups of pixels that end up in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 William F. Basener , Alexey Castrodad , David Messinger , Jennifer Mahle , Paul Prue

DBSCAN is a fundamental spatial clustering algorithm with numerous practical applications. However, a bottleneck of the algorithm is in the worst case, the run time complexity is $O(n^2)$. To address this limitation, we propose a new…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiaogang Huang , Tiefeng Ma , Conan Liu , Shuangzhe Liu

Economic policy and research rely on the correct evaluation of the billions of high-frequency data points that we collect every day. Consistent clustering algorithms, like DBSCAN, allow us to make sense of the data in a useful way. However,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Nicholas Waltz

Finding a suitable density function is essential for density-based clustering algorithms such as DBSCAN and DPC. A naive density corresponding to the indicator function of a unit $d$-dimensional Euclidean ball is commonly used in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Chao Zheng , Yingjie Chen , Chong Chen , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

We propose a fast and dynamic algorithm for Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) that efficiently supports online updates. Traditional DBSCAN algorithms, designed for batch processing, become computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Seiyun Shin , Ilan Shomorony , Peter Macgregor

A novel combination of two widely-used clustering algorithms is proposed here for the detection and reduction of high data density regions. The Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is used for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bart J. J. Kremers , Aaron Ho , Jonathan Citrin , Karel L. van de Plassche

Density-based clustering algorithms are widely used for discovering clusters in pattern recognition and machine learning since they can deal with non-hyperspherical clusters and are robustness to handle outliers. However, the runtime of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Difei Cheng , Ruihang Xu , Bo Zhang , Ruinan Jin

Most community detection approaches make very strong assumptions about communities in the data, such as every vertex must belong to exactly one community (the communities form a partition). For vector data, Hierarchical Density Based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ryan DeWolfe

The density based clustering method {\em Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN)} is a popular method for outlier recognition and has received tremendous attention from many different areas. A major issue of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hu Ding , Fan Yang

Clustering is a fundamental task in machine learning. One of the most successful and broadly used algorithms is DBSCAN, a density-based clustering algorithm. DBSCAN requires $\epsilon$-nearest neighbor graphs of the input dataset, which are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Youguang Chen , William Ruys , George Biros

In this paper we are going to introduce a new nearest neighbours based approach to clustering, and compare it with previous solutions; the resulting algorithm, which takes inspiration from both DBscan and minimum spanning tree approaches,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Marcello La Rocca

Density-based clustering algorithms like DBSCAN and HDBSCAN are foundational tools for discovering arbitrarily shaped clusters, yet their practical utility is undermined by acute hyperparameter sensitivity -- parameters tuned on one dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ahmed Elmahdi

This paper presents new parallel algorithms for generating Euclidean minimum spanning trees and spatial clustering hierarchies (known as HDBSCAN$^*$). Our approach is based on generating a well-separated pair decomposition followed by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yiqiu Wang , Shangdi Yu , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

Clustering algorithms are fundamental tools across many fields, with density-based methods offering particular advantages in identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters and handling noise. However, their effectiveness is often limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Meysam Shirdel Bilehsavar , Razieh Ghaedi , Samira Seyed Taheri , Xinqi Fan , Christian O'Reilly

Clustering multidimensional points is a fundamental data mining task, with applications in many fields, such as astronomy, neuroscience, bioinformatics, and computer vision. The goal of clustering algorithms is to group similar objects…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yihao Huang , Shangdi Yu , Julian Shun