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Hierarchical clustering (HC) algorithms are generally limited to small data instances due to their runtime costs. Here we mitigate this shortcoming and explore fast HC algorithms based on random projections for single (SLC) and average…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Johannes Schneider , Michail Vlachos

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) requires only the similarity between objects to be known. This is attractive when clustering signals of varying length, such as speech, which are not readily represented in fixed-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Lerato Lerato , Thomas Niesler

An agglomerative clustering of random variables is proposed, where clusters of random variables sharing the maximum amount of multivariate mutual information are merged successively to form larger clusters. Compared to the previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Chung Chan , Ali Al-Bashabsheh , Qiaoqiao Zhou

We propose In-Context Clustering (ICC), a flexible LLM-based procedure for clustering data from diverse distributions. Unlike traditional clustering algorithms constrained by predefined similarity measures, ICC flexibly captures complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ying Wang , Mengye Ren , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu

In data containing heterogeneous subpopulations, classification performance benefits from incorporating the knowledge of cluster structure in the classifier. Previous methods for such combined clustering and classification either 1) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Shivin Srivastava , Siddharth Bhatia , Lingxiao Huang , Lim Jun Heng , Kenji Kawaguchi , Vaibhav Rajan

Getting a robust time-series clustering with best choice of distance measure and appropriate representation is always a challenge. We propose a novel mechanism to identify the clusters combining learned compact representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Soma Bandyopadhyay , Anish Datta , Arpan Pal

An agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) framework and algorithm named HOSil based on a new linkage metric optimized by the average silhouette width (ASW) index is proposed. A conscientious investigation of various clustering methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-30 Fatima Batool

We present a new clustering method in the form of a single clustering equation that is able to directly discover groupings in the data. The main proposition is that the first neighbor of each sample is all one needs to discover large chains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 M. Saquib Sarfraz , Vivek Sharma , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Existing clustering methods are based on a single granularity of information, such as the distance and density of each data. This most fine-grained based approach is usually inefficient and susceptible to noise. Inspired by adaptive process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Shuyin Xia , Jiang Xie , Guoyin Wang

Algorithmic fairness in clustering aims to balance the proportions of instances assigned to each cluster with respect to a given sensitive attribute. While recently developed fair clustering algorithms optimize clustering objectives under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kunwoong Kim , Jihu Lee , Sangchul Park , Yongdai Kim

Scaling test-time computation--generating and analyzing multiple or sequential outputs for a single input--has become a promising strategy for improving the reliability and quality of large language models (LLMs), as evidenced by advances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sungjae Lee , Hoyoung Kim , Jeongyeon Hwang , Eunhyeok Park , Jungseul Ok

Correlation clustering is a flexible framework for partitioning data based solely on pairwise similarity or dissimilarity information, without requiring the number of clusters as input. However, in many practical scenarios, these pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Linus Aronsson , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

Clustering algorithms are fundamental tools across many fields, with density-based methods offering particular advantages in identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters and handling noise. However, their effectiveness is often limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Meysam Shirdel Bilehsavar , Razieh Ghaedi , Samira Seyed Taheri , Xinqi Fan , Christian O'Reilly

Classification algorithms to mine data stream have been extensively studied in recent years. However, a lot of these algorithms are designed for supervised learning which requires labeled instances. Nevertheless, the labeling of the data is…

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

We propose a framework for Semi-Supervised Active Clustering framework (SSAC), where the learner is allowed to interact with a domain expert, asking whether two given instances belong to the same cluster or not. We study the query and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Hassan Ashtiani , Shrinu Kushagra , Shai Ben-David

Clustering high-dimensional data is a critical challenge in machine learning due to the curse of dimensionality and the presence of noise. Traditional clustering algorithms often fail to capture the intrinsic structures in such data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Joanikij Chulev , Angela Mladenovska

Performing analytic of household load curves (LCs) has significant value in predicting individual electricity consumption patterns, and hence facilitate developing demand-response strategy, and finally achieve energy efficiency improvement…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yunyou Huang , Jianfeng Zhan , Nana Wang , Chunjie Luo , Lei Wang , Rui Ren

Modern online mass spectrometry generates multi-terabyte data streams critical for understanding Earth's environmental systems. However, extracting actionable chemical insights from these repositories is impeded by a computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shao Shi , Xin Yang , Huiran Feng , Jianhuai Ye , Tianlong Hu , Yaling Zeng , Tzung-May Fu , Lei Zhu , Huizhong Shen , Chen Wang , Shu Tao