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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

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

When approaching a clustering problem, choosing the right clustering algorithm and parameters is essential, as each clustering algorithm is proficient at finding clusters of a particular nature. Due to the unsupervised nature of clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Elizabeth Ditton , Anne Swinbourne , Trina Myers , Mitchell Scovell

Connected clustering denotes a family of constrained clustering problems in which we are given a distance metric and an undirected connectivity graph $G$ that can be completely unrelated to the metric. The aim is to partition the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jan Eube , Heiko Röglin

This paper introduces the equiwide clustering problem, where valid partitions must satisfy intra-cluster dissimilarity constraints. Unlike most existing clustering algorithms, equiwide clustering relies neither on density nor on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jennie Andersen , Brice Chardin , Mohamed Tribak

Spectral clustering is a fundamental technique in the field of data mining and information processing. Most existing spectral clustering algorithms integrate dimensionality reduction into the clustering process assisted by manifold learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang , Xiaofang Zhou

Clustering is a popular unsupervised learning tool often used to discover groups within a larger population such as customer segments, or patient subtypes. However, despite its use as a tool for subgroup discovery and description - few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Connor Lawless , Jayant Kalagnanam , Lam M. Nguyen , Dzung Phan , Chandra Reddy

The Consensus Clustering problem has been introduced as an effective way to analyze the results of different microarray experiments. The problem consists of looking for a partition that best summarizes a set of input partitions (each…

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This short document illustrates QLUSTER: a toy model for populations of binary black holes in dense astrophysical environments. QLUSTER is a simple tool to investigate the occurrence and properties of hierarchical black-hole mergers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-30 Davide Gerosa , Matthew Mould

We give a constant factor polynomial time pseudo-approximation algorithm for min-sum clustering with or without outliers. The algorithm is allowed to exclude an arbitrarily small constant fraction of the points. For instance, we show how to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Sandip Banerjee , Rafail Ostrovsky , Yuval Rabani

Spectral clustering has found extensive use in many areas. Most traditional spectral clustering algorithms work in three separate steps: similarity graph construction; continuous labels learning; discretizing the learned labels by k-means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Qiang Cheng , Zenglin Xu

Biclustering, also known as co-clustering or two-way clustering, simultaneously partitions the rows and columns of a data matrix to reveal submatrices with coherent patterns. Incorporating background knowledge into clustering to enhance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Antonio M. Sudoso

This paper revisits cluster-based retrieval that partitions the inverted index into multiple groups and skips the index partially at cluster and document levels during online inference using a learned sparse representation. It proposes an…

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We study the computational complexity of some explainable clustering problems in the framework proposed by [Dasgupta et al., ICML 2020], where explainability is achieved via axis-aligned decision trees. We consider the $k$-means,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Eduardo Sany Laber

Fast and high quality document clustering is an important task in organizing information, search engine results obtaining from user query, enhancing web crawling and information retrieval. With the large amount of data available and with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-11 Alok Ranjan , Harish Verma , Eatesh Kandpal , Joydip Dhar

We consider the problem of clustering a set of high-dimensional data points into sets of low-dimensional linear subspaces. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are unknown. We propose a simple and low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular clustering methods. However, the high computational cost due to the involved eigen-decomposition procedure can immediately hinder its applications in large-scale tasks. In this paper we use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Yongyu Wang

Clustering ensemble has emerged as an important research topic in the field of machine learning. Although numerous methods have been proposed to improve clustering quality, most existing approaches overlook the need for interpretability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hang Lv , Lianyu Hu , Mudi Jiang , Xinying Liu , Zengyou He

We design replicable algorithms in the context of statistical clustering under the recently introduced notion of replicability from Impagliazzo et al. [2022]. According to this definition, a clustering algorithm is replicable if, with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hossein Esfandiari , Amin Karbasi , Vahab Mirrokni , Grigoris Velegkas , Felix Zhou