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Traditional k-means clustering underperforms on non-convex shapes and requires the number of clusters k to be specified in advance. We propose a simple geometric enhancement: after standard k-means, each cluster center is assigned a radius…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Stefan Kober

$K$-means, a simple and effective clustering algorithm, is one of the most widely used algorithms in multimedia and computer vision community. Traditional $k$-means is an iterative algorithm---in each iteration new cluster centers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Jingdong Wang , Jing Wang , Qifa Ke , Gang Zeng , Shipeng Li

Spectral clustering methods have gained widespread recognition for their effectiveness in clustering high-dimensional data. Among these techniques, constrained spectral clustering has emerged as a prominent approach, demonstrating enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Swarup Ranjan Behera , Vijaya V. Saradhi

Graph-based subspace clustering methods have exhibited promising performance. However, they still suffer some of these drawbacks: encounter the expensive time overhead, fail in exploring the explicit clusters, and cannot generalize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Zhao Kang , Zhiping Lin , Xiaofeng Zhu , Wenbo Xu

Spectral clustering uses the global information embedded in eigenvectors of an inter-item similarity matrix to correctly identify clusters of irregular shape, an ability lacking in commonly used approaches such as k-means and agglomerative…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-01-18 Brian White , David Shalloway

Clustering analysis has been widely used in trust evaluation on various complex networks such as wireless sensors networks and online social networks. Spectral clustering is one of the most commonly used algorithms for graph-structured data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Gang Mei , Jingzhi Tu , Lei Xiao , Francesco Piccialli

Spectral clustering is popular among practitioners and theoreticians alike. While performance guarantees for spectral clustering are well understood, recent studies have focused on enforcing ``fairness'' in clusters, requiring them to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shubham Gupta , Ambedkar Dukkipati

As the most typical graph clustering method, spectral clustering is popular and attractive due to the remarkable performance, easy implementation, and strong adaptability. Classical spectral clustering measures the edge weights of graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Dehua Peng , Zhipeng Gui , Huayi Wu

The use of mobile phones has exploded over the past years,abundantly through the introduction of smartphones and the rapidly expanding use of mobile data. This has resulted in a spiraling problem of ensuring quality of service for users of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Eleni Rozaki

We study the problem of non-parametric clustering of data sequences, where each data sequence comprises independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples generated from an unknown distribution. The true clusters are the clusters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 G Dhinesh Chandran , Kota Srinivas Reddy , Srikrishna Bhashyam

We present a generic dynamic programming method to compute the optimal clustering of $n$ scalar elements into $k$ pairwise disjoint intervals. This case includes 1D Euclidean $k$-means, $k$-medoids, $k$-medians, $k$-centers, etc. We extend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to growing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods such as spectral partitioning can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Julian Shun , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Kimon Fountoulakis , Michael W. Mahoney

The clustering problem, in its many variants, has numerous applications in operations research and computer science (e.g., in applications in bioinformatics, image processing, social network analysis, etc.). As sizes of data sets have grown…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Tanmay Inamdar , Shreyas Pai , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

The spectral clustering algorithm is often used as a binary clustering method for unclassified data by applying the principal component analysis. To study theoretical properties of the algorithm, the assumption of conditional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Kohei Kawamoto , Yuichi Goto , Koji Tsukuda

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

Cluster analysis methods seek to partition a data set into homogeneous subgroups. It is useful in a wide variety of applications, including document processing and modern genetics. Conventional clustering methods are unsupervised, meaning…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-11 Eric Bair

Spectral clustering is a widely studied problem, yet its complexity is prohibitive for dynamic graphs of even modest size. We claim that it is possible to reuse information of past cluster assignments to expedite computation. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-13 Lionel Martin , Andreas Loukas , Pierre Vandergheynst

Cluster structure detection is a fundamental task for the analysis of graphs, in order to understand and to visualize their functional characteristics. Among the different cluster structure detection methods, spectral clustering is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-09 Camille Champion , Blazère Mélanie , Burcelin Rémy , Loubes Jean-Michel , Risser Laurent

Data mining focuses on discovering interesting, non-trivial and meaningful information from large datasets. Data clustering is one of the unsupervised and descriptive data mining task which group data based on similarity features and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Pitawelayalage Dasun Dileepa Pitawela , Gamage Upeksha Ganegoda

UMAP (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection) is among the most widely used algorithms for non linear dimensionality reduction and data visualisation. Despite its popularity, and despite being presented through the lens of algebraic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yang Yang