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Deep graph clustering, which aims to reveal the underlying graph structure and divide the nodes into different clusters without human annotations, is a fundamental yet challenging task. However, we observed that the existing methods suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Yue Liu , Sihang Zhou , Xinwang Liu , Wenxuan Tu , Xihong Yang

Clustering analysis, a classical issue in data mining, is widely used in various research areas. This article aims at proposing a self-adaption grey DBSCAN clustering (SAG-DBSCAN) algorithm. First, the grey relational matrix is used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Shizhan Lu

Clustering a graph means identifying internally dense subgraphs which are only sparsely interconnected. Formalizations of this notion lead to measures that quantify the quality of a clustering and to algorithms that actually find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Robert Görke , Andrea Schumm , Dorothea Wagner

We study the problem of optimal estimation of the density cluster tree under various assumptions on the underlying density. Building up from the seminal work of Chaudhuri et al. [2014], we formulate a new notion of clustering consistency…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Daren Wang , Xinyang Lu , Alessandro Rinaldo

Clustering high-dimensional datasets is hard because interpoint distances become less informative in high-dimensional spaces. We present a clustering algorithm that performs nonlinear dimensionality reduction and clustering jointly. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

Deep clustering - joint representation learning and latent space clustering - is a well studied problem especially in computer vision and text processing under the deep learning framework. While the representation learning is generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Bishwajit Saha , Dmitry Krotov , Mohammed J. Zaki , Parikshit Ram

Clustering is an underspecified task: there are no universal criteria for what makes a good clustering. This is especially true for relational data, where similarity can be based on the features of individuals, the relationships between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-29 Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

Cluster analysis which focuses on the grouping and categorization of similar elements is widely used in various fields of research. Inspired by the phenomenon of atomic fission, a novel density-based clustering algorithm is proposed in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Shizhan Lu

Clustering is a popular machine learning technique for data mining that can process and analyze datasets to automatically reveal sample distribution patterns. Since the ubiquitous categorical data naturally lack a well-defined metric space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yiqun Zhang , Mingjie Zhao , Hong Jia , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung

Clustering multidimensional points is a fundamental data mining task, with applications in many fields, such as astronomy, neuroscience, bioinformatics, and computer vision. The goal of clustering algorithms is to group similar objects…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yihao Huang , Shangdi Yu , Julian Shun

Clustering is an essential data mining tool for analyzing and grouping similar objects. In big data applications, however, many clustering algorithms are infeasible due to their high memory requirements and/or unfavorable runtime…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Gregor Ulm , Simon Smith , Adrian Nilsson , Emil Gustavsson , Mats Jirstrand

Martian terrain recognition is pivotal for advancing our understanding of topography, geomorphology, paleoclimate, and habitability. While deep clustering methods have shown promise in learning semantically homogeneous feature embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tejas Panambur , Mario Parente

Clustering aims to group unlabeled objects based on similarity inherent among them into clusters. It is important for many tasks such as anomaly detection, database sharding, record linkage, and others. Some clustering methods are taken as…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Binbin Gu , Saeed Kargar , Faisal Nawab

DBSCAN, a well-known density-based clustering algorithm, has gained widespread popularity and usage due to its effectiveness in identifying clusters of arbitrary shapes and handling noisy data. However, it encounters challenges in producing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Hao Peng , Xiang Huang , Shuo Sun , Ruitong Zhang , Philip S. Yu

We present \textit{CluProp}, a novel framework that reimagines varied-density clustering in high-dimensional spaces as a label propagation process over neighborhood graphs. Our approach formally bridges the gap between density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs , Ninh Pham

Clustering algorithms are often used to find subpopulations in exploratory data analysis workflows. Not only the clusters themselves, but also their shape can represent meaningful subpopulations. In this paper, we present FLASC, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 D. M. Bot , J. Peeters , J. Liesenborgs , J. Aerts

This paper focuses on density-based clustering, particularly the Density Peak (DP) algorithm and the one based on density-connectivity DBSCAN; and proposes a new method which takes advantage of the individual strengths of these two methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting , Yuan Jin , Maia Angelova

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

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

Clustering is one of the major tasks in data mining. In the last few years, Clustering of spatial data has received a lot of research attention. Spatial databases are components of many advanced information systems like geographic…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Mohamed A. El-Zawawy