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In this article, we propose a penalized clustering method for large scale data with multiple covariates through a functional data approach. In the proposed method, responses and covariates are linked together through nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-01-17 Ping Ma , Wenxuan Zhong

A model-based approach is developed for clustering categorical data with no natural ordering. The proposed method exploits the Hamming distance to define a family of probability mass functions to model the data. The elements of this family…

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Clustering is essential in data analysis and machine learning, but traditional algorithms like $k$-means and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) often fail with nonconvex clusters. To address the challenge, we introduce the Flexible Bivariate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yung-Peng Hsu , Hung-Hsuan Chen

Clustering high-dimensional data is especially challenging when cluster distributions are heavy tailed and only approximately elliptical. Existing high-dimensional methods are largely built for Gaussian or other light-tailed models, whereas…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Long Feng , Dan Zhuang

In recent years, data dimensionality has increasingly become a concern, leading to many parameter and dimension reduction techniques being proposed in the literature. A parameter-wise co-clustering model, for data modelled via continuous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-01 M. P. B. Gallaugher , C. Biernacki , P. D. McNicholas

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

Clustering is a powerful and extensively used data science tool. While clustering is generally thought of as an unsupervised learning technique, there are also supervised variations such as Spath's clusterwise regression that attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Aravinth Chembu , Scott Sanner

We consider high-dimensional binary classification by sparse logistic regression. We propose a model/feature selection procedure based on penalized maximum likelihood with a complexity penalty on the model size and derive the non-asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Felix Abramovich , Vadim Grinshtein

As in other estimation scenarios, likelihood based estimation in the normal mixture set-up is highly non-robust against model misspecification and presence of outliers (apart from being an ill-posed optimization problem). A robust…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-20 Soumya Chakraborty , Ayanendranath Basu , Abhik Ghosh

Cluster analysis of biological samples using gene expression measurements is a common task which aids the discovery of heterogeneous biological sub-populations having distinct mRNA profiles. Several model-based clustering algorithms have…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-01-30 Alberto Cozzini , Ajay Jasra , Giovanni Montana

We propose a new sparsity-smoothness penalty for high-dimensional generalized additive models. The combination of sparsity and smoothness is crucial for mathematical theory as well as performance for finite-sample data. We present a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-11-18 Lukas Meier , Sara van de Geer , Peter Bühlmann

Finite mixture models have become a popular tool for clustering. Amongst other uses, they have been applied for clustering longitudinal data and clustering high-dimensional data. In the latter case, a latent Gaussian mixture model is…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-17 Vanessa S. E. Bierling , Paul D. McNicholas

Matrix valued data has become increasingly prevalent in many applications. Most of the existing clustering methods for this type of data are tailored to the mean model and do not account for the dependence structure of the features, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-07 Inbeom Lee , Siyi Deng , Yang Ning

Mixtures of von Mises-Fisher distributions can be used to cluster data on the unit hypersphere. This is particularly adapted for high-dimensional directional data such as texts. We propose in this article to estimate a von Mises mixture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Fabrice Rossi , Florian Barbaro

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm and its variants are widely used in statistics. In high-dimensional mixture linear regression, the model is assumed to be a finite mixture of linear regression and the number of predictors is much…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Ning Wang , Xin Zhang , Qing Mai

Model explainability is crucial for human users to be able to interpret how a proposed classifier assigns labels to data based on its feature values. We study generalized linear models constructed using sets of feature value rules, which…

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We introduce a new method for performing clustering with the aim of fitting clusters with different scatters and weights. It is designed by allowing to handle a proportion $\alpha$ of contaminating data to guarantee the robustness of the…

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The family of location and scale mixtures of Gaussians has the ability to generate a number of flexible distributional forms. It nests as particular cases several important asymmetric distributions like the Generalised Hyperbolic…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-05 Darren Wraith , Florence Forbes

We introduce a mixture of generalized hyperbolic distributions as an alternative to the ubiquitous mixture of Gaussian distributions as well as their near relatives of which the mixture of multivariate t and skew-t distributions are…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Ryan P. Browne , Paul D. McNicholas

The idea of representations of the data in negatively curved manifolds recently attracted a lot of attention and gave a rise to the new research direction named {\it hyperbolic machine learning} (ML). In order to unveil the full potential…

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