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Clustering large, mixed data is a central problem in data mining. Many approaches adopt the idea of k-means, and hence are sensitive to initialisation, detect only spherical clusters, and require a priori the unknown number of clusters. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-13 Joshua Tobin , Mimi Zhang

The modelling of action potentials from extracellular recordings, or spike sorting, is a rich area of neuroscience research in which latent variable models are often used. Two such models, Overfitted Finite Mixture models (OFMs) and…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-08 Zoé van Havre , Nicole White , Judith Rousseau , Kerrie Mengersen

Clustering is a central approach for unsupervised learning. After clustering is applied, the most fundamental analysis is to quantitatively compare clusterings. Such comparisons are crucial for the evaluation of clustering methods as well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-03 Alexander J Gates , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

The goal of data clustering is to partition data points into groups to minimize a given objective function. While most existing clustering algorithms treat each data point as vector, in many applications each datum is not a vector but a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-16 Dinh Phung , Ba-Ngu Bo

We describe a network clustering framework, based on finite mixture models, that can be applied to discrete-valued networks with hundreds of thousands of nodes and billions of edge variables. Relative to other recent model-based clustering…

Computation · Statistics 2020-03-13 Duy Q. Vu , David R. Hunter , Michael Schweinberger

Creating low dimensional representations of a high dimensional data set is an important component in many machine learning applications. How to cluster data using their low dimensional embedded space is still a challenging problem in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Zahra Moslehi , Abdolreza Mirzaei , Mehran Safayani

Biclustering is used for simultaneous clustering of the observations and variables when there is no group structure known \textit{a priori}. It is being increasingly used in bioinformatics, text analytics, etc. Previously, biclustering has…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-14 Wangshu Tu , Sanjeena Subedi

Clustering is one of the most common unsupervised learning tasks in machine learning and data mining. Clustering algorithms have been used in a plethora of applications across several scientific fields. However, there has been limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Quang N. Tran , Ba-Ngu Vo , Dinh Phung , Ba-Tuong Vo

Predictive clustering trees (PCTs) are a well established generalization of standard decision trees, which can be used to solve a variety of predictive modeling tasks, including structured output prediction. Combining them into ensembles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Tomaž Stepišnik , Dragi Kocev

Deep clustering has recently emerged as a promising technique for complex data clustering. Despite the considerable progress, previous deep clustering works mostly build or learn the final clustering by only utilizing a single layer of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dong Huang , Ding-Hua Chen , Xiangji Chen , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

A generative model based on training deep architectures is proposed. The model consists of K networks that are trained together to learn the underlying distribution of a given data set. The process starts with dividing the input data into K…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Ershad Banijamali , Ali Ghodsi , Pascal Poupart

Bayesian mixture models are widely used for clustering of high-dimensional data with appropriate uncertainty quantification. However, as the dimension of the observations increases, posterior inference often tends to favor too many or too…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-22 Noirrit Kiran Chandra , Antonio Canale , David B. Dunson

Model-based clustering is widely-used in a variety of application areas. However, fundamental concerns remain about robustness. In particular, results can be sensitive to the choice of kernel representing the within-cluster data density.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-27 Leo L Duan , David B Dunson

Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique in which data or objects are grouped into sets based on some similarity measure. Most of the clustering algorithms assume that the main memory is infinite and can accommodate the set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Pankaj Kumar Yadav , Sriniwas Pandey , Sraban Kumar Mohanty

We consider the problem of inferring an unknown number of clusters in replicated multinomial data. Under a model based clustering point of view, this task can be treated by estimating finite mixtures of multinomial distributions with or…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-07 Panagiotis Papastamoulis

Semi-supervised clustering is the task of clustering data points into clusters where only a fraction of the points are labelled. The true number of clusters in the data is often unknown and most models require this parameter as an input.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Amar Shah , Zoubin Ghahramani

We study supervised learning problems using clustering constraints to impose structure on either features or samples, seeking to help both prediction and interpretation. The problem of clustering features arises naturally in text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Vincent Roulet , Fajwel Fogel , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach

In recent years, large-scale Bayesian learning draws a great deal of attention. However, in big-data era, the amount of data we face is growing much faster than our ability to deal with it. Fortunately, it is observed that large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Qianqian Song

We address binary classification using neural ordinary differential equations from the perspective of simultaneous control of $N$ data points. We consider a single-neuron architecture with parameters fixed as piecewise constant functions of…

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