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Spectral clustering is a celebrated algorithm that partitions objects based on pairwise similarity information. While this approach has been successfully applied to a variety of domains, it comes with limitations. The reason is that there…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Kwangjun Ahn , Kangwook Lee , Changho Suh

We develop a novel algorithm, Predictive Hierarchical Clustering (PHC), for agglomerative hierarchical clustering of current procedural terminology (CPT) codes. Our predictive hierarchical clustering aims to cluster subgroups, not…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-03 Elizabeth C. Lorenzi , Stephanie L. Brown , Zhifei Sun , Katherine Heller

In this paper, we present a new approach of distributed clustering for spatial datasets, based on an innovative and efficient aggregation technique. This distributed approach consists of two phases: 1) local clustering phase, where each…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Malika Bendechache , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

Clustering is one of the most fundamental problems in data analysis and it has been studied extensively in the literature. Though many clustering algorithms have been proposed, clustering theories that justify the use of these clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Cheng-Shang Chang , Wanjiun Liao , Yu-Sheng Chen , Li-Heng Liou

Clustering partitions a dataset such that observations placed together in a group are similar but different from those in other groups. Hierarchical and $K$-means clustering are two approaches but have different strengths and weaknesses.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Anna D. Peterson , Arka P. Ghosh , Ranjan Maitra

The primary goal in cluster analysis is to discover natural groupings of objects. The field of cluster analysis is crowded with diverse methods that make special assumptions about data and address different scientific aims. Despite its…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-07 Gary K. Chen , Eric Chi , John Ranola , Kenneth Lange

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

Exact hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) of large spatial datasets is limited in practice by the $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ time and memory required for the full pairwise distance matrix. We present GSHAC (Geographically Sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Victor Maus , Vinicius Pozzobon Borin

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

This paper presents a new approach to non-parametric cluster analysis called Adaptive Weights Clustering (AWC). The idea is to identify the clustering structure by checking at different points and for different scales on departure from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-27 Kirill Efimov , Larisa Adamyan , Vladimir Spokoiny

Clustering and visualizing high-dimensional (HD) data are important tasks in a variety of fields. For example, in bioinformatics, they are crucial for analyses of single-cell data such as mass cytometry (CyTOF) data. Some of the most…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-19 Joshua M. Scurll

Hierarchical clustering is a widely used method for unsupervised learning with numerous applications. However, in the application of modern algorithms, the datasets studied are usually large and dynamic. If the hierarchical clustering is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shijie Li , Weiqiang He , Ruobing Bai , Pan Peng

Average linkage Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) is an extensively studied and applied method for hierarchical clustering. Recent applications to massive datasets have driven significant interest in near-linear-time and efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-06 MohammadHossein Bateni , Laxman Dhulipala , Kishen N Gowda , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Rajesh Jayaram , Jakub Łącki

Clustering in high-dimensional spaces is a difficult problem which is recurrent in many domains, for example in image analysis. The difficulty is due to the fact that high-dimensional data usually live in different low-dimensional subspaces…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Charles Bouveyron , Stéphane Girard , Cordelia Schmid

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

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

Hierarchical clustering is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, organizing data into a tree of clusterings from which a partition can be chosen. This paper generalizes these ideas by proving that, for any reasonable hierarchy, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andrew Draganov , Pascal Weber , Rasmus Skibdahl Melanchton Jørgensen , Anna Beer , Claudia Plant , Ira Assent

Convex clustering is a modern method with both hierarchical and $k$-means clustering characteristics. Although convex clustering can capture complex clustering structures hidden in data, the existing convex clustering algorithms are not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Daniel J. W. Touw , Patrick J. F. Groenen , Yoshikazu Terada

Hierarchical clustering is an effective, interpretable method for analyzing structure in data. It reveals insights at multiple scales without requiring a predefined number of clusters and captures nested patterns and subtle relationships,…

Energy companies often implement various demand response (DR) programs to better match electricity demand and supply by offering the consumers incentives to reduce their demand during critical periods. Classifying clients according to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Fadi AlMahamid , Katarina Grolinger