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Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental task often used to discover meaningful structures in data, such as phylogenetic trees, taxonomies of concepts, subtypes of cancer, and cascades of particle decays in particle physics. Typically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Craig S. Greenberg , Sebastian Macaluso , Nicholas Monath , Ji-Ah Lee , Patrick Flaherty , Kyle Cranmer , Andrew McGregor , Andrew McCallum

We present an accelerated algorithm for hierarchical density based clustering. Our new algorithm improves upon HDBSCAN*, which itself provided a significant qualitative improvement over the popular DBSCAN algorithm. The accelerated HDBSCAN*…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-20 Leland McInnes , John Healy

Many methods have been developed for data clustering, such as k-means, expectation maximization and algorithms based on graph theory. In this latter case, graphs are generally constructed by taking into account the Euclidian distance as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-27 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

This work proposes a hierarchical clustering algorithm for high-dimensional datasets using the cyclic space of reversible finite cellular automata. In cellular automaton (CA) based clustering, if two objects belong to the same cycle, they…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Baby C. J. , Kamalika Bhattacharjee

We present a technique for clustering categorical data by generating many dissimilarity matrices and averaging over them. We begin by demonstrating our technique on low dimensional categorical data and comparing it to several other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-20 Saeid Amiri , Bertrand Clarke , Jennifer Clarke

Hierarchical clustering is one of the most powerful solutions to the problem of clustering, on the grounds that it performs a multi scale organization of the data. In recent years, research on hierarchical clustering methods has attracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Antonia Korba

Clustering is a powerful tool in data analysis, but it is often difficult to find a grouping that aligns with a user's needs. To address this, several methods incorporate constraints obtained from users into clustering algorithms, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Sharad Vikram , Sanjoy Dasgupta

Clustering, a fundamental task in data science and machine learning, groups a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same cluster are closer to each other than to those in other clusters. In this paper, we consider a well-known…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Georgia Avarikioti , Alain Ryser , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

Clustering species of the same plant into different groups is an important step in developing new species of the concerned plant. Phenotypic (or physical) characteristics of plant species are commonly used to perform clustering.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Kapil Ahuja , Mithun Singh , Kuldeep Pathak , Milind B. Ratnaparkhe

Clustering in high-dimensional spaces is a difficult problem which is recurrent in many domains, for example in image analysis. The difficulty is due to the fact that high-dimensional data usually live in different low-dimensional subspaces…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Charles Bouveyron , Stéphane Girard , Cordelia Schmid

Clustering plays a crucial role in computer science, facilitating data analysis and problem-solving across numerous fields. By partitioning large datasets into meaningful groups, clustering reveals hidden structures and relationships within…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Aryan Esmailpour , Stavros Sintos

Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) is an extensively studied and widely used method for hierarchical clustering in $\mathbb{R}^k$ based on repeatedly merging the closest pair of clusters according to an input linkage function $d$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 MohammadHossein Bateni , Laxman Dhulipala , Willem Fletcher , Kishen N Gowda , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Rajesh Jayaram , Jakub Łącki

The applicability of agglomerative clustering, for inferring both hierarchical and flat clustering, is limited by its scalability. Existing scalable hierarchical clustering methods sacrifice quality for speed and often lead to over-merging…

Hierarchical clustering is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, organizing data into a tree of clusterings from which a partition can be chosen. This paper generalizes these ideas by proving that, for any reasonable hierarchy, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andrew Draganov , Pascal Weber , Rasmus Skibdahl Melanchton Jørgensen , Anna Beer , Claudia Plant , Ira Assent

This paper addresses the clustering of data in the hyperdimensional computing (HDC) domain. In prior work, an HDC-based clustering framework, referred to as HDCluster, has been proposed. However, the performance of the existing HDCluster is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Lulu Ge , Keshab K. Parhi

In the era of Big Data, scalable and accurate clustering algorithms for high-dimensional data are essential. We present new Bayesian Distance Clustering (BDC) models and inference algorithms with improved scalability while maintaining the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-02 Rafael Cabral , Maria de Iorio , Andrew Harris

We introduce a novel criterion in clustering that seeks clusters with limited range of values associated with each cluster's elements. In clustering or classification the objective is to partition a set of objects into subsets, called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Dorit S. Hochbaum

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning approach. Many clustering algorithms -- such as $k$-means -- rely on the euclidean distance as a similarity measure, which is often not the most relevant metric for high dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Aude Genevay , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Jean-Philippe Vert

As the size $n$ of datasets become massive, many commonly-used clustering algorithms (for example, $k$-means or hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) require prohibitive computational cost and memory. In this paper, we propose a…

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