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Clustering data objects into homogeneous groups is one of the most important tasks in data mining. Spectral clustering is arguably one of the most important algorithms for clustering, as it is appealing for its theoretical soundness and is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Dylan Soemitro , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Clustering is a long-standing research problem and a fundamental tool in AI and data analysis. The traditional k-center problem, a fundamental theoretical challenge in clustering, has a best possible approximation ratio of 2, and any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chaoqi Jia , Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao , Zhigang Lu , Chao Chen , Jason Xue

Clustering is one of the most common tasks of Machine Learning. In this paper we examine how ideas from topology can be used to improve clustering techniques.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Dimitrios Panagopoulos

We study constrained clustering, where constraints guide the clustering process. In existing works, two categories of constraints have been widely explored, namely pairwise and cardinality constraints. Pairwise constraints enforce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Adel Bibi , Ali Alqahtani , Bernard Ghanem

Clustering aims to group unlabeled objects based on similarity inherent among them into clusters. It is important for many tasks such as anomaly detection, database sharding, record linkage, and others. Some clustering methods are taken as…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Binbin Gu , Saeed Kargar , Faisal Nawab

A network has a non-overlapping community structure if the nodes of the network can be partitioned into disjoint sets such that each node in a set is densely connected to other nodes inside the set and sparsely connected to the nodes out-…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Talasila Sai Deepak , Hindol Adhya , Shyamal Kejriwal , Bhanuteja Gullapalli , Saswata Shannigrahi

Many clustering problems in computer vision and other contexts are also classification problems, where each cluster shares a meaningful label. Subspace clustering algorithms in particular are often applied to problems that fit this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 John Lipor , Laura Balzano

Clustering attempts to partition data instances into several distinctive groups, while the similarities among data belonging to the common partition can be principally reserved. Furthermore, incomplete data frequently occurs in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Miao Cheng , Xinge You

Clustering is a fundamental machine learning task which has been widely studied in the literature. Classic clustering methods follow the assumption that data are represented as features in a vectorized form through various representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Sheng Zhou , Hongjia Xu , Zhuonan Zheng , Jiawei Chen , Zhao li , Jiajun Bu , Jia Wu , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu , Martin Ester

Large-scale classification of data where classes are structurally organized in a hierarchy is an important area of research. Top-down approaches that exploit the hierarchy during the learning and prediction phase are efficient for large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Azad Naik , Huzefa Rangwala

A combinatorial cost function for hierarchical clustering was introduced by Dasgupta \cite{dasgupta2016cost}. It has been generalized by Cohen-Addad et al. \cite{cohen2019hierarchical} to a general form named admissible function. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Yicheng Pan , Feng Zheng , Bingchen Fan

The advent of the big data paradigm has transformed how industries manage and analyze information, ushering in an era of unprecedented data volume, velocity, and variety. Within this landscape, mixed-data clustering has become a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Guillaume Guerard , Sonia Djebali

Clustering is a powerful and extensively used data science tool. While clustering is generally thought of as an unsupervised learning technique, there are also supervised variations such as Spath's clusterwise regression that attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Aravinth Chembu , Scott Sanner

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

Clustering aims to group unlabelled samples based on their similarities. It has become a significant tool for the analysis of high-dimensional data. However, most of the clustering methods merely generate pseudo labels and thus are unable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tianyi Huang , Shenghui Cheng , Stan Z. Li , Zhengjun Zhang

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning, with numerous applications in computer science and in analysing real-world data. In many real-world applications, we find that the clusters have a significant high-level…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Peter Macgregor

In classification problems, especially those that categorize data into a large number of classes, the classes often naturally follow a hierarchical structure. That is, some classes are likely to share similar structures and features. Those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell

Hierarchical forecasting methods have been widely used to support aligned decision-making by providing coherent forecasts at different aggregation levels. Traditional hierarchical forecasting approaches, such as the bottom-up and top-down…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Evangelos Spiliotis , Mahdi Abolghasemi , Rob J Hyndman , Fotios Petropoulos , Vassilios Assimakopoulos

Convex clustering is a modern method with both hierarchical and $k$-means clustering characteristics. Although convex clustering can capture complex clustering structures hidden in data, the existing convex clustering algorithms are not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Daniel J. W. Touw , Patrick J. F. Groenen , Yoshikazu Terada

Subspace clustering refers to the problem of clustering high-dimensional data points into a union of low-dimensional linear subspaces, where the number of subspaces, their dimensions and orientations are all unknown. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-17 Reinhard Heckel , Eirikur Agustsson , Helmut Bölcskei