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We propose an algorithm for clustering high dimensional data. If $P$ features for $N$ objects are represented in an $N\times P$ matrix ${\bf X}$, where $N\ll P$, the method is based on exploiting the cluster-dependent structure of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-05 Shahina Rahman , Valen E. Johnson

This paper proposes an early detection method for cluster structural changes. Cluster structure refers to discrete structural characteristics, such as the number of clusters, when data are represented using finite mixture models, such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-28 Kento Urano , Ryo Yuki , Kenji Yamanishi

We study clustering on graphs with multiple edge types. Our main motivation is that similarities between objects can be measured in many different metrics. For instance similarity between two papers can be based on common authors, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Matthew Rocklin , Ali Pinar

Clustering provides a common means of identifying structure in complex data, and there is renewed interest in clustering as a tool for the analysis of large data sets in many fields. A natural question is how many clusters are appropriate…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Susanne Still , William Bialek

A novel nonparametric clustering algorithm is proposed using the interpoint distances between the members of the data to reveal the inherent clustering structure existing in the given set of data, where we apply the classical nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-02 Soumita Modak

We show how to convert any clustering into a prediction set. This has the effect of converting the clustering into a (possibly overlapping) union of spheres or ellipsoids. The tuning parameters can be chosen to minimize the size of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-28 Jaehyeok Shin , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Many standard structural quantities, such as order parameters and correlation functions, exist for common condensed matter systems, such as spherical and rod-like particles. However, these structural quantities are often insufficient for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-18 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer

Clustering of motion trajectories is highly relevant for human-robot interactions as it allows the anticipation of human motions, fast reaction to those, as well as the recognition of explicit gestures. Further, it allows automated analysis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Christoph Zelch , Jan Peters , Oskar von Stryk

In model-based clustering using finite mixture models, it is a significant challenge to determine the number of clusters (cluster size). It used to be equal to the number of mixture components (mixture size); however, this may not be valid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Shunki Kyoya , Kenji Yamanishi

Spectral clustering is a fast and popular algorithm for finding clusters in networks. Recently, Chaudhuri et al. (2012) and Amini et al.(2012) proposed inspired variations on the algorithm that artificially inflate the node degrees for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-18 Tai Qin , Karl Rohe

In clustering problems, a central decision-maker is given a complete metric graph over vertices and must provide a clustering of vertices that minimizes some objective function. In fair clustering problems, vertices are endowed with a color…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Seyed A. Esmaeili , Brian Brubach , Leonidas Tsepenekas , John P. Dickerson

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

We focus on spectral clustering of unlabeled graphs and review some results on clustering methods which achieve weak or strong consistent identification in data generated by such models. We also present a new algorithm which appears to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Peter J. Bickel

Spectral clustering is a popular method for community detection in network graphs: starting from a matrix representation of the graph, the nodes are clustered on a low dimensional projection obtained from a truncated spectral decomposition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-10 Francesco Sanna Passino , Nicholas A. Heard , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

A novel formulation of the clustering problem is introduced in which the task is expressed as an estimation problem, where the object to be estimated is a function which maps a point to its distribution of cluster membership. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 David P. Hofmeyr

In a standard cluster analysis, such as k-means, in addition to clusters locations and distances between them, it's important to know if they are connected or well separated from each other. The main focus of this paper is discovering the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-22 Evgeny Bauman , Konstantin Bauman

Designing efficient, effective, and consistent metric clustering algorithms is a significant challenge attracting growing attention. Traditional approaches focus on the stability of cluster centers; unfortunately, this neglects the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Diptarka Chakraborty , Hendrik Fichtenberger , Bernhard Haeupler , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson

Clustering is a crucial tool for analyzing data in virtually every scientific and engineering discipline. There are more scalable solutions framed to enable time and space clustering for the future large-scale data analyses. As a result,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-23 D. D. D. Suribabu , T. Hitendra Sarma , B. Eswar Reddy

Graph clustering is the problem of identifying sparsely connected dense subgraphs (clusters) in a given graph. Proposed clustering algorithms usually optimize various fitness functions that measure the quality of a cluster within the graph.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jiri Sima , Satu Elisa Schaeffer

Clustering methods are applied regularly in the bibliometric literature to identify research areas or scientific fields. These methods are for instance used to group publications into clusters based on their relations in a citation network.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Lovro Šubelj , Nees Jan van Eck , Ludo Waltman