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We propose k^2-means, a new clustering method which efficiently copes with large numbers of clusters and achieves low energy solutions. k^2-means builds upon the standard k-means (Lloyd's algorithm) and combines a new strategy to accelerate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Eirikur Agustsson , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

We consider the problem of retrieving objects from image data and learning to classify them into meaningful semantic categories with minimal supervision. To that end, we propose a fully differentiable unsupervised deep clustering approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Steven Hickson , Anelia Angelova , Irfan Essa , Rahul Sukthankar

The learning of mixture models can be viewed as a clustering problem. Indeed, given data samples independently generated from a mixture of distributions, we often would like to find the {\it correct target clustering} of the samples…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-26 Zhaoqiang Liu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Clustering is a cornerstone of data analysis that is particularly suited to identifying coherent subgroups or substructures in unlabeled data, as are generated continuously in large amounts these days. However, in many cases traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jonathan Scott , Christoph H. Lampert , David Saulpic

Clustering is one of the most important unsupervised problems in machine learning and statistics. Among many existing algorithms, kernel k-means has drawn much research attention due to its ability to find non-linear cluster boundaries and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-05 Bowei Yan , Purnamrita Sarkar

One iteration of standard $k$-means (i.e., Lloyd's algorithm) or standard EM for Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) scales linearly with the number of clusters $C$, data points $N$, and data dimensionality $D$. In this study, we explore whether…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-18 Dennis Forster , Jörg Lücke

Advances made to the traditional clustering algorithms solves the various problems such as curse of dimensionality and sparsity of data for multiple attributes. The traditional H-K clustering algorithm can solve the randomness and apriority…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Rashmi Paithankar , Bharat Tidke

Deep clustering has the potential to learn a strong representation and hence better clustering performance compared to traditional clustering methods such as $k$-means and spectral clustering. However, this strong representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hongjing Zhang , Ian Davidson

The rapid increase in the parameters of deep learning models has led to significant costs, challenging computational efficiency and model interpretability. In this paper, we introduce a novel and straightforward neural network pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Zhang Zhang , Ruyi Tao , Jiang Zhang

Unsupervised machine learning offers significant opportunities for extracting knowledge from unlabeled data sets and for achieving maximum machine learning performance. This paper demonstrates how to construct, use, and evaluate a high…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-13 Ryan Cohn , Elizabeth Holm

Organizing data into semantically more meaningful is one of the fundamental modes of understanding and learning. Cluster analysis is a formal study of methods for understanding and algorithm for learning. K-mean clustering algorithm is one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Doreswamy , K. S. Hemanth

Center-based clustering algorithms (e.g., K-means) are popular for clustering tasks, but they usually struggle to achieve high accuracy on complex datasets. We believe the main reason is that traditional center-based clustering algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Qi Li

We present SuperKMeans: a k-means variant designed for clustering collections of high-dimensional vector embeddings. SuperKMeans' clustering is up to 7x faster than FAISS and Scikit-Learn on modern CPUs and up to 4x faster than cuVS on GPUs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Leonardo Kuffo , Sven Hepkema , Peter Boncz

Due to its simplicity and versatility, k-means remains popular since it was proposed three decades ago. The performance of k-means has been enhanced from different perspectives over the years. Unfortunately, a good trade-off between quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Wan-Lei Zhao , Cheng-Hao Deng , Chong-Wah Ngo

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

Clustering based on belief functions has been gaining increasing attention in the machine learning community due to its ability to effectively represent uncertainty and/or imprecision. However, none of the existing algorithms can be applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Armel Soubeiga , Thomas Guyet , Violaine Antoine

Clustering is a usual unsupervised machine learning technique for grouping the data points into groups based upon similar features. We focus here on unsupervised clustering for contaminated data, i.e in the case where K-medians should be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Sobihan Surendran

We formally prove the connection between k-means clustering and the predictions of neural networks based on the softmax activation layer. In existing work, this connection has been analyzed empirically, but it has never before been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Sibylle Hess , Wouter Duivesteijn , Decebal Mocanu

This thesis aims to invent new approaches for making inferences with the k-means algorithm. k-means is an iterative clustering algorithm that randomly assigns k centroids, then assigns data points to the nearest centroid, and updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Alfred K. Adzika , Prudence Djagba

Most learning approaches treat dimensionality reduction (DR) and clustering separately (i.e., sequentially), but recent research has shown that optimizing the two tasks jointly can substantially improve the performance of both. The premise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Bo Yang , Xiao Fu , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Mingyi Hong