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We consider the problem of clustering misaligned curves. According to our similarity measure, two curves are considered similar if they have the same shape after being aligned, and the warping function does not differ from the identity…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-01-03 Yu-Hsiang Cheng , Tzee-Ming Huang , Su-Fen Yang

This paper introduces the equiwide clustering problem, where valid partitions must satisfy intra-cluster dissimilarity constraints. Unlike most existing clustering algorithms, equiwide clustering relies neither on density nor on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jennie Andersen , Brice Chardin , Mohamed Tribak

We address the classical problem of hierarchical clustering, but in a framework where one does not have access to a representation of the objects or their pairwise similarities. Instead, we assume that only a set of comparisons between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Michaël Perrot , Ulrike von Luxburg

Correlation Clustering is a classic clustering objective arising in numerous machine learning and data mining applications. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, the goal is to partition the vertex set into clusters so as to minimize the number of edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David Rasmussen Lolck , Marcin Pilipczuk , Mikkel Thorup , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

Clustering is often used for discovering structure in data. Clustering systems differ in the objective function used to evaluate clustering quality and the control strategy used to search the space of clusterings. Ideally, the search…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 D. Fisher

We investigate task clustering for deep-learning based multi-task and few-shot learning in a many-task setting. We propose a new method to measure task similarities with cross-task transfer performance matrix for the deep learning scenario.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Jinfeng Yi , Shiyu Chang , Saloni Potdar , Gerald Tesauro , Haoyu Wang , Bowen Zhou

Clustering has been a major research topic in the field of machine learning, one to which Deep Learning has recently been applied with significant success. However, an aspect of clustering that is not addressed by existing deep clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

Text clustering holds significant value across various domains due to its ability to identify patterns and group related information. Current approaches which rely heavily on a computed similarity measure between documents are often limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Laurence Hirsch , Robin Hirsch , Bayode Ogunleye

Similarity scores in face recognition represent the proximity between pairs of images as computed by a matching algorithm. Given a large set of images and the proximities between all pairs, a similarity score space is defined. Cluster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Jason Grant , Patrick Flynn

A significantly faster algorithm is presented for the original kNN mode seeking procedure. It has the advantages over the well-known mean shift algorithm that it is feasible in high-dimensional vector spaces and results in uniquely, well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-21 Robert P. W. Duin , Sergey Verzakov

In the last years many studies examined the consistency of students' answers in a variety of contexts. Some of these papers tried to develop more detailed models of the consistency of students' reasoning, or to subdivide a sample of…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-08-17 Onofrio Rosario Battaglia , Benedetto Di Paola , Claudio Fazio

Spectral clustering refers to a family of unsupervised learning algorithms that compute a spectral embedding of the original data based on the eigenvectors of a similarity graph. This non-linear transformation of the data is both the key of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Nicolas Tremblay , Andreas Loukas

In this paper, we proposed a new clustering-based active learning framework, namely Active Learning using a Clustering-based Sampling (ALCS), to address the shortage of labeled data. ALCS employs a density-based clustering approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Xuyang Yan , Shabnam Nazmi , Biniam Gebru , Mohd Anwar , Abdollah Homaifar , Mrinmoy Sarkar , Kishor Datta Gupta

As a kind of basic machine learning method, clustering algorithms group data points into different categories based on their similarity or distribution. We present a clustering algorithm by finding hyper-planes to distinguish the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Luhong Diao , Jinying Gao1 , Manman Deng

In this paper, we propose a one-stage online clustering method called Contrastive Clustering (CC) which explicitly performs the instance- and cluster-level contrastive learning. To be specific, for a given dataset, the positive and negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yunfan Li , Peng Hu , Zitao Liu , Dezhong Peng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Xi Peng

Correlation Clustering (CC) is a fundamental unsupervised learning primitive whose strongest LP-based approximation guarantees require $\Theta(n^3)$ triangle inequality constraints and are prohibitive at scale. We initiate the study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

Comparing clusterings is central to evaluating unsupervised models, yet the many existing similarity measures can produce widely divergent, sometimes contradictory, evaluations. Clustering similarity measures are typically organized into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-06 Alexander J. Gates

We introduce the Neural Collaborative Subspace Clustering, a neural model that discovers clusters of data points drawn from a union of low-dimensional subspaces. In contrast to previous attempts, our model runs without the aid of spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Tong Zhang , Pan Ji , Mehrtash Harandi , Wenbing Huang , Hongdong Li

Cluster analysis requires many decisions: the clustering method and the implied reference model, the number of clusters and, often, several hyper-parameters and algorithms' tunings. In practice, one produces several partitions, and a final…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-14 Luca Coraggio , Pietro Coretto

Cluster repair methods aim to determine errors in clusters and modify them so that each cluster consists of records representing the same entity. Current cluster repair methodologies primarily assume duplicate-free data sources, where each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Victor Christen , Daniel Obraczka , Marvin Hofer , Martin Franke , Erhard Rahm