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Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning task that consists of identifying groups of similar objects. It has numerous applications and is increasingly used in fairness-sensitive domains where objects represent individuals, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Claudio Mantuano , Manuel Kammermann , Philipp Baumann

In recent years, there has been a growing demand to discern clusters of subjects in datasets characterized by a large set of features. Often, these clusters may be highly variable in size and present partial hierarchical structures. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-01 Lorenzo Schiavon , Mattia Stival

Inverted file structure is a common technique for accelerating dense retrieval. It clusters documents based on their embeddings; during searching, it probes nearby clusters w.r.t. an input query and only evaluates documents within them by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peitian Zhang , Zheng Liu , Shitao Xiao , Zhicheng Dou , Jing Yao

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

Understanding the global organization of complicated and high dimensional data is of primary interest for many branches of applied sciences. It is typically achieved by applying dimensionality reduction techniques mapping the considered…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Paweł Dłotko , Davide Gurnari , Mathis Hallier , Anna Jurek-Loughrey

The rapid growth of unlabeled time series data, driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), poses significant challenges in uncovering underlying patterns. Traditional unsupervised clustering methods often fail to capture the complex nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Congyu Wang , Mingjing Du , Xiang Jiang , Yongquan Dong

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel distributed machine learning approach to leverage data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices while maintaining data privacy. However, the current FL algorithms face the challenges of non-independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Gang Hu , Yinglei Teng , Nan Wang , F. Richard Yu

Incremental data mining algorithms process frequent updates to dynamic datasets efficiently by avoiding redundant computation. Existing incremental extension to shared nearest neighbor density based clustering (SNND) algorithm cannot handle…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Panthadeep Bhattacharjee , Amit Awekar

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train deep learning models while considering sensitive local datasets' privacy. However, adversaries can manipulate datasets and upload models by injecting triggers for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zekai Chen , Fuyi Wang , Zhiwei Zheng , Ximeng Liu , Yujie Lin

Density-based clustering is the task of discovering high-density regions of entities (clusters) that are separated from each other by contiguous regions of low-density. DBSCAN is, arguably, the most popular density-based clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Stiphen Chowdhury , Renato Cordeiro de Amorim

Clustering analysis is one of the critical tasks in machine learning. Traditionally, clustering has been an independent task, separate from outlier detection. Due to the fact that the performance of clustering can be significantly eroded by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Jiahao Deng , Eli T. Brown

We propose a new class of models for variable clustering called Asymptotic Independent block (AI-block) models, which defines population-level clusters based on the independence of the maxima of a multivariate stationary mixing random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Alexis Boulin , Elena Di Bernardino , Thomas Laloë , Gwladys Toulemonde

The explosive growth of complex datasets across various modalities necessitates advanced analytical tools that not only group data effectively but also provide human-understandable insights into the discovered structures. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Gabor Petnehazi , Bernadett Aradi

In this paper, we deal with the problem of curves clustering. We propose a nonparametric method which partitions the curves into clusters and discretizes the dimensions of the curve points into intervals. The cross-product of these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-03 Marc Boullé , Romain Guigourès , Fabrice Rossi

This research proposes an effective vertical clustering strategy of 3D data in an elliptical helical shape based on 2D geometry. The clustering object is an elliptical cross-sectioned metal pipe which is been bended in to an elliptical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Wasantha Samarathunga , Masatoshi Seki , Hidenobu Saito , Ken Ichiryu , Yasuhiro Ohyama

We present a new fast online clustering algorithm that reliably recovers arbitrary-shaped data clusters in high throughout data streams. Unlike the existing state-of-the-art online clustering methods based on k-means or k-medoid, it does…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Krzysztof Choromanski , Sanjiv Kumar , Xiaofeng Liu

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is one of the current state-of-the-art methods for partitioning data points into the union of subspaces, with strong theoretical guarantees. However, it is not practical for large data sets as it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Maryam Abdolali , Nicolas Gillis , Mohammad Rahmati

Standard approaches to tackle high-dimensional supervised classification problem often include variable selection and dimension reduction procedures. The novel methodology proposed in this paper combines clustering of variables and feature…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Marie Chavent , Robin Genuer , Jerome Saracco

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is a state-of-the-art method for segmenting a set of data points drawn from a union of subspaces into their respective subspaces. It is now well understood that SSC produces subspace-preserving data affinity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-22 Chun-Guang Li , Chong You , René Vidal

The level set tree approach of Hartigan (1975) provides a probabilistically based and highly interpretable encoding of the clustering behavior of a dataset. By representing the hierarchy of data modes as a dendrogram of the level sets of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-08-01 Brian P. Kent , Alessandro Rinaldo , Timothy Verstynen