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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

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

Probabilistic k-nearest neighbour (PKNN) classification has been introduced to improve the performance of original k-nearest neighbour (KNN) classification algorithm by explicitly modelling uncertainty in the classification of each feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Ji Won Yoon , Nial Friel

Single-level density-based approach has long been widely acknowledged to be a conceptually and mathematically convincing clustering method. In this paper, we propose an algorithm called "best-scored clustering forest" that can obtain the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-25 Hanyuan Hang , Yuchao Cai , Hanfang Yang

This paper presents Clustering based on Near Neighbor Influence (CNNI), a new clustering algorithm which is inspired by the idea of near neighbor and the superposition principle of influence. In order to clearly describe this algorithm, it…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Xinquan Chen

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) relies on sparse regression for accurate neighbor identification. Inspired by recent progress in compressive sensing, this paper proposes a new sparse regression scheme for SSC via two-step reweighted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Jwo-Yuh Wu , Liang-Chi Huang , Ming-Hsun Yang , Chun-Hung Liu

The k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) classification algorithm is one of the most widely-used lazy classifiers because of its simplicity and ease of implementation. It is considered to be an effective classifier and has many applications. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Stefanos Ougiaroglou , Georgios Evangelidis , Dimitris A. Dervos

Most community detection approaches make very strong assumptions about communities in the data, such as every vertex must belong to exactly one community (the communities form a partition). For vector data, Hierarchical Density Based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ryan DeWolfe

We propose the DPSM method, a density-based node clustering approach that automatically determines the number of clusters and can be applied in both data space and graph space. Unlike traditional density-based clustering methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Feiping Nie , Yitao Song , Jingjing Xue , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li

Recently, deep clustering, which is able to perform feature learning that favors clustering tasks via deep neural networks, has achieved remarkable performance in image clustering applications. However, the existing deep clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Yazhou Ren , Ni Wang , Mingxia Li , Zenglin Xu

The Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) is a topometric algorithm used to cluster spatial data that are affected by background noise. For the first time, we propose the use of this method for the detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Tramacere , C. Vecchio

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer a means of addressing the challenging task of clustering high-dimensional data. DNNs can extract useful features, and so produce a lower dimensional representation, which is more amenable to clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

In this work, we revisit fast dimension reduction approaches, as with random projections and random sampling. Our goal is to summarize the data to decrease computational costs and memory footprint of subsequent analysis. Such dimension…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-20 Andrés Hoyos-Idrobo , Gaël Varoquaux , Jonas Kahn , Bertrand Thirion

In this study, we present a novel ranking model based on learning neighborhood relationships embedded in the index space. Given a query point, conventional approximate nearest neighbor search calculates the distances to the cluster…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Chih-Yi Chiu , Amorntip Prayoonwong , Yin-Chih Liao

When it comes to clustering nonconvex shapes, two paradigms are used to find the most suitable clustering: minimum cut and maximum density. The most popular algorithms incorporating these paradigms are Spectral Clustering and DBSCAN. Both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Sibylle Hess , Wouter Duivesteijn , Philipp Honysz , Katharina Morik

As one type of efficient unsupervised learning methods, clustering algorithms have been widely used in data mining and knowledge discovery with noticeable advantages. However, clustering algorithms based on density peak have limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jianguo Chen , Philip S. Yu

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high-dimensional space is an essential operator in many online services, such as information retrieval and recommendation. Indices constructed by the state-of-the-art ANNS algorithms must be…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Kun Yu , Jiabao Jin , Xiaoyao Zhong , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen , Zhitao Shen , Jingkuan Song , Hengtao Shen , Xuemin Lin

The problem of clustering noisy and incompletely observed high-dimensional data points into a union of low-dimensional subspaces and a set of outliers is considered. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-24 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

Visual grouping is a key mechanism in human scene perception. There, it belongs to the subconscious, early processing and is key prerequisite for other high level tasks such as recognition. In this paper, we introduce an efficient, realtime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Dominik Alexander Klein , Dirk Schulz , Armin Bernd Cremers

Approximate K nearest neighbor (AKNN) search is a fundamental and challenging problem. We observe that in high-dimensional space, the time consumption of nearly all AKNN algorithms is dominated by that of the distance comparison operations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jianyang Gao , Cheng Long