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In cancer research, clustering techniques are widely used for exploratory analyses and dimensionality reduction, playing a critical role in the identification of novel cancer subtypes, often with direct implications for patient management.…

The input to the \emph{sets-$k$-means} problem is an integer $k\geq 1$ and a set $\mathcal{P}=\{P_1,\cdots,P_n\}$ of sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The goal is to compute a set $C$ of $k$ centers (points) in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimizes the sum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Ibrahim Jubran , Murad Tukan , Alaa Maalouf , Dan Feldman

Microaggregation is a method to coarsen a dataset, by optimally clustering data points in groups of at least $k$ points, thereby providing a $k$-anonymity type disclosure guarantee for each point in the dataset. Previous algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Felix I. Stamm , Michael T. Schaub

Unsupervised clustering algorithms for vectors has been widely used in the area of machine learning. Many applications, including the biological data we studied in this paper, contain some boundary datapoints which show combination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Yingcong Li , Chandra Sekhar Mukherjee , Jiapeng Zhang

Clustering can be defined as the process of assembling objects into a number of groups whose elements are similar to each other in some manner. As a technique that is used in many domains, such as face clustering, plant categorization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mehmet F. Demirel , Enrico Au-Yeung

There are multiple cluster randomised trial designs that vary in when the clusters cross between control and intervention states, when observations are made within clusters, and how many observations are made at that time point. Identifying…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-20 Samuel I. Watson , Alan Girling , Karla Hemming

Given full or partial information about a collection of points that lie close to a union of several subspaces, subspace clustering refers to the process of clustering the points according to their subspace and identifying the subspaces. One…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-16 Zachary Charles , Amin Jalali , Rebecca Willett

As data sets continue to grow in size and complexity, effective and efficient techniques are needed to target important features in the variable space. Many of the variable selection techniques that are commonly used alongside clustering…

Computation · Statistics 2013-03-22 Jeffrey L. Andrews , Paul D. McNicholas

We propose a method for estimating coefficients in multivariate regression when there is a clustering structure to the response variables. The proposed method includes a fusion penalty, to shrink the difference in fitted values from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Bradley S. Price , Ben Sherwood

The performance (accuracy and robustness) of several clustering algorithms is studied for linearly dependent random variables in the presence of noise. It turns out that the error percentage quickly increases when the number of observations…

Applications · Statistics 2009-11-13 Pamela Minicozzi , Fabio Rapallo , Enrico Scalas , Francesco Dondero

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

Clustering, a fundamental activity in unsupervised learning, is notoriously difficult when the feature space is high-dimensional. Fortunately, in many realistic scenarios, only a handful of features are relevant in distinguishing clusters.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Zhiyue Zhang , Kenneth Lange , Jason Xu

As the data size in Machine Learning fields grows exponentially, it is inevitable to accelerate the computation by utilizing the ever-growing large number of available cores provided by high-performance computing hardware. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kun Li , Liang Yuan , Yunquan Zhang , Gongwei Chen

The $\ell_2^2$ min-sum $k$-clustering problem is to partition an input set into clusters $C_1,\ldots,C_k$ to minimize $\sum_{i=1}^k\sum_{p,q\in C_i}\|p-q\|_2^2$. Although $\ell_2^2$ min-sum $k$-clustering is NP-hard, it is not known whether…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Karthik C. S. , Euiwoong Lee , Yuval Rabani , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Samson Zhou

We introduce a fast and explainable clustering method called CLASSIX. It consists of two phases, namely a greedy aggregation phase of the sorted data into groups of nearby data points, followed by the merging of groups into clusters. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Xinye Chen , Stefan Güttel

We provide a static data structure for distance estimation which supports {\it adaptive} queries. Concretely, given a dataset $X = \{x_i\}_{i = 1}^n$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $0 < p \leq 2$, we construct a randomized data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Jelani Nelson

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

A major limitation of clustering approaches is their lack of explainability: methods rarely provide insight into which features drive the grouping of similar observations. To address this limitation, we propose an ensemble-based clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Federico Maria Quetti , Elena Ballante , Silvia Figini , Paolo Giudici

The problem of constrained clustering has attracted significant attention in the past decades. In this paper, we study the balanced $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means clustering problems where the size of each cluster is constrained by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Hu Ding

Given $n$ points in $\ell_p^d$, we consider the problem of partitioning points into $k$ clusters with associated centers. The cost of a clustering is the sum of $p^{\text{th}}$ powers of distances of points to their cluster centers. For $p…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Moses Charikar , Erik Waingarten