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In many statistical linear inverse problems, one needs to recover classes of similar curves from their noisy images under an operator that does not have a bounded inverse. Problems of this kind appear in many areas of application.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Rasika Rajapakshage , Marianna Pensky

Semi-supervised clustering methods incorporate a limited amount of supervision into the clustering process. Typically, this supervision is provided by the user in the form of pairwise constraints. Existing methods use such constraints in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-26 Toon Van Craenendonck , Hendrik Blockeel

Model-based clustering is a popular approach for clustering multivariate data which has seen applications in numerous fields. Nowadays, high-dimensional data are more and more common and the model-based clustering approach has adapted to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-25 Michael Fop , Thomas Brendan Murphy

We propose a new method based on sparse optimal discriminant clustering (SODC), incorporating a penalty term into the scoring matrix based on convex clustering. With the addition of this penalty term, it is expected to improve the accuracy…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-15 Mayu Hiraishi , Kensuke Tanioka , Hiroshi Yadohisa

The generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) of Xiao et al. [{\tt Math. Prog. Comput., 2018}] aims at the two-block linearly constrained composite convex programming problem, in which each block is in the form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Hongwu Li , Haibin Zhang , Yunhai Xiao

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning. Popular methods like K-means, may suffer from poor performance as they are prone to get stuck in its local minima. Recently, the sum-of-norms (SON) model (also known as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Yancheng Yuan

There are many applications where it important to perform well on a set of examples as opposed to individual examples. For example in image or video classification the question is does an object appear somewhere in the image or video while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Dori Peleg

Cluster-weighted models (CWMs) extend finite mixtures of regressions (FMRs) in order to allow the distribution of covariates to contribute to the clustering process. In a matrix-variate framework, the matrix-variate normal CWM has been…

Simultaneous clustering and optimization (SCO) has recently drawn much attention due to its wide range of practical applications. Many methods have been previously proposed to solve this problem and obtain the optimal model. However, when a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Yawei Zhao , En Zhu , Xinwang Liu , Chang Tang , Deke Guo , Jianping Yin

Image clustering, which involves grouping images into different clusters without labels, is a key task in unsupervised learning. Although previous deep clustering methods have achieved remarkable results, they only explore the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haixin Zhang , Yongjun Li , Dong Huang

Clustering methods seek to partition data such that elements are more similar to elements in the same cluster than to elements in different clusters. The main challenge in this task is the lack of a unified definition of a cluster,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Franz Besold , Vladimir Spokoiny

Subspace clustering is a class of extensively studied clustering methods where the spectral-type approaches are its important subclass. Its key first step is to desire learning a representation coefficient matrix with block diagonal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yunxia Lin , Songcan Chen

We propose a new clustering approach, called optimality-based clustering, that clusters data points based on their latent decision-making preferences. We assume that each data point is a decision generated by a decision-maker who…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Zahed Shahmoradi , Taewoo Lee

In recent years, spectral clustering has become a standard method for data analysis used in a broad range of applications. In this paper we propose a new class of algorithms for multiway spectral clustering based on optimization of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-05 James Voss , Mikhail Belkin , Luis Rademacher

Multi-view clustering has gained broad attention owing to its capacity to exploit complementary information across multiple data views. Although existing methods demonstrate delightful clustering performance, most of them are of high time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Xinhang Wan , Xinwang Liu , Jiyuan Liu , Siwei Wang , Yi Wen , Weixuan Liang , En Zhu , Zhe Liu , Lu Zhou

In mixed multi-view data, multiple sets of diverse features are measured on the same set of samples. By integrating all available data sources, we seek to discover common group structure among the samples that may be hidden in…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-12 Minjie Wang , Genevera I. Allen

We propose a novel method for multiple clustering that assumes a co-clustering structure (partitions in both rows and columns of the data matrix) in each view. The new method is applicable to high-dimensional data. It is based on a…

This study introduces a novel technique for multi-view clustering known as the "Consensus Graph-Based Multi-View Clustering Method Using Low-Rank Non-Convex Norm" (CGMVC-NC). Multi-view clustering is a challenging task in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Alaeddine Zahir , Khalide Jbilou , Ahmed Ratnani

Currently, data-driven discovery in biological sciences resides in finding segmentation strategies in multivariate data that produce sensible descriptions of the data. Clustering is but one of several approaches and sometimes falls short…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-12 Richard Tjörnhammar

Gathering training data is a key step of any supervised learning task, and it is both critical and expensive. Critical, because the quantity and quality of the training data has a high impact on the performance of the learned function.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Quentin Lutz , Élie de Panafieu , Alex Scott , Maya Stein