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We present a new algorithm for the widely used density-based clustering method DBscan. Our algorithm computes the DBscan-clustering in $O(n\log n)$ time in $\mathbb{R}^2$, irrespective of the scale parameter $\varepsilon$ (and assuming the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Mark de Berg , Ade Gunawan , Marcel Roeloffzen

Cluster analysis plays a crucial role in database mining, and one of the most widely used algorithms in this field is DBSCAN. However, DBSCAN has several limitations, such as difficulty in handling high-dimensional large-scale data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Weibing Zhao

DBSCAN is a fundamental density-based clustering technique that identifies any arbitrary shape of the clusters. However, it becomes infeasible while handling big data. On the other hand, centroid-based clustering is important for detecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Jayasree Saha , Jayanta Mukherjee

Clustering is an unsupervised technique for grouping data points by similarity. While explainability methods exist for supervised machine learning, they are not directly applicable to clustering, making it challenging to understand cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Pernille Matthews , Lena Krieger , Tommaso Amico , Artur Zimek , Thomas Seidl , Ira Assent

We study the problem of optimal estimation of the density cluster tree under various assumptions on the underlying density. Building up from the seminal work of Chaudhuri et al. [2014], we formulate a new notion of clustering consistency…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Daren Wang , Xinyang Lu , Alessandro Rinaldo

A novel combination of two widely-used clustering algorithms is proposed here for the detection and reduction of high data density regions. The Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is used for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bart J. J. Kremers , Aaron Ho , Jonathan Citrin , Karel L. van de Plassche

The traditional algorithms do not meet the latest multiple requirements simultaneously for objects. Density-based method is one of the methodologies, which can detect arbitrary shaped clusters where clusters are defined as dense regions…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Singh Vijendra , Priyanka Trikha

Clustering is a cornerstone of modern data analysis. Detecting clusters in exploratory data analyses (EDA) requires algorithms that make few assumptions about the data. Density-based clustering algorithms are particularly well-suited for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Daniël Bot , Leland McInnes , Jan Aerts

Incremental K-means and DBSCAN are two very important and popular clustering techniques for today's large dynamic databases (Data warehouses, WWW and so on) where data are changed at random fashion. The performance of the incremental…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Sanjay Chakraborty , N. K. Nagwani , Lopamudra Dey

DBSCAN* and HDBSCAN* are well established density based clustering algorithms. However, obtaining the clusters of very large datasets is infeasible, limiting their use in real world applications. By exploiting the geometry of Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 A. L. Garcia-Pulido , K. P. Samardzhiev

DBSCAN, a well-known density-based clustering algorithm, has gained widespread popularity and usage due to its effectiveness in identifying clusters of arbitrary shapes and handling noisy data. However, it encounters challenges in producing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Hao Peng , Xiang Huang , Shuo Sun , Ruitong Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Clustering techniques are very attractive for extracting and identifying patterns in datasets. However, their application to very large spatial datasets presents numerous challenges such as high-dimensionality data, heterogeneity, and high…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Malika Bendechache , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

Finding a suitable density function is essential for density-based clustering algorithms such as DBSCAN and DPC. A naive density corresponding to the indicator function of a unit $d$-dimensional Euclidean ball is commonly used in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Chao Zheng , Yingjie Chen , Chong Chen , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

HDBSCAN*, a state-of-the-art density-based hierarchical clustering method, produces a hierarchical organization of clusters in a dataset w.r.t. a parameter mpts. While the performance of HDBSCAN* is robust w.r.t. mpts in the sense that a…

This paper tries to present a more unified view of clustering, by identifying the relationships between five different clustering algorithms. Some of the results are not new, but they are presented in a cleaner, simpler and more concise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Bernardo A. Gonzalez-Torres

DBSCAN and OPTICS are powerful algorithms for identifying clusters of points in domains where few assumptions can be made about the structure of the data. In this paper, we leverage these strengths and introduce a new algorithm, LINSCAN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Andrew Dennehy , Xiaoyu Zou , Shabnam J. Semnani , Yuri Fialko , Alexander Cloninger

Density-based clustering is the task of discovering high-density regions of entities (clusters) that are separated from each other by contiguous regions of low-density. DBSCAN is, arguably, the most popular density-based clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Stiphen Chowdhury , Renato Cordeiro de Amorim

Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (HDBSCAN) finds meaningful patterns in spatial data by considering density and spatial proximity. As the clustering algorithm is inherently designed for static…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Kayumov Abduaziz , Min Sik Kim , Ji Sun Shin

Density Based Clustering are a type of Clustering methods using in data mining for extracting previously unknown patterns from data sets. There are a number of density based clustering methods such as DBSCAN, OPTICS, DENCLUE, VDBSCAN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Rupanka Bhuyan , Samarjeet Borah

Clustering multi-dimensional points is a fundamental task in many fields, and density-based clustering supports many applications as it can discover clusters of arbitrary shapes. This paper addresses the problem of Density-Peaks Clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Daichi Amagata , Takahiro Hara