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Clustering is one of the most fundamental and wide-spread techniques in exploratory data analysis. Yet, the basic approach to clustering has not really changed: a practitioner hand-picks a task-specific clustering loss to optimize and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yibo Jiang , Nakul Verma

Cluster analysis has proved to be an invaluable tool for the exploratory and unsupervised analysis of high dimensional datasets. Among methods for clustering, hierarchical approaches have enjoyed substantial popularity in genomics and other…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-20 Patrick K. Kimes , Yufeng Liu , D. Neil Hayes , J. S. Marron

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

Clustering algorithms are pivotal in data analysis, enabling the organization of data into meaningful groups. However, individual clustering methods often exhibit inherent limitations and biases, preventing the development of a universal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-13 H. Jahani , F. Zamio

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks. However, the truthfulness of their outputs is not guaranteed, and their tendency toward overconfidence further limits reliability. Uncertainty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Qi Cao , Andrew Gambardella , Takeshi Kojima , Yutaka Matsuo , Yusuke Iwasawa

In order to learn quickly with few samples, meta-learning utilizes prior knowledge learned from previous tasks. However, a critical challenge in meta-learning is task uncertainty and heterogeneity, which can not be handled via globally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Huaxiu Yao , Ying Wei , Junzhou Huang , Zhenhui Li

Conformal prediction (CP) is a powerful framework for quantifying uncertainty in machine learning models, offering reliable predictions with finite-sample coverage guarantees. When applied to classification, CP produces a prediction set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Floris den Hengst , Inès Blin , Majid Mohammadi , Syed Ihtesham Hussain Shah , Taraneh Younesian

Finding a set of nested partitions of a dataset is useful to uncover relevant structure at different scales, and is often dealt with a data-dependent methodology. In this paper, we introduce a general two-step methodology for model-based…

Computation · Statistics 2021-04-22 Etienne Côme , Nicolas Jouvin , Pierre Latouche , Charles Bouveyron

Ensemble clustering is a fundamental problem in the machine learning field, combining multiple base clusterings into a better clustering result. However, most of the existing methods are unsuitable for large-scale ensemble clustering tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hongmin Li , Xiucai Ye , Akira Imakura , Tetsuya Sakurai

In the collaborative clustering framework, the hope is that by combining several clustering solutions, each one with its own bias and imperfections, one will get a better overall solution. The goal is that each local computation, quite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yohan Foucade , Younès Bennani

Spectral clustering has emerged as one of the most effective clustering algorithms due to its superior performance. However, most existing models are designed for centralized settings, rendering them inapplicable in modern decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Suyan Dai , Gan Sun , Fazeng Li , Xu Tang , Qianqian Wang , Yang Cong

Multi-view clustering can explore consistent information from different views to guide clustering. Most existing works focus on pursuing shallow consistency in the feature space and integrating the information of multiple views into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yiyang Zhou , Qinghai Zheng , Wenbiao Yan , Yifei Wang , Pengcheng Shi , Jihua Zhu

Clustering high-dimensional datasets is hard because interpoint distances become less informative in high-dimensional spaces. We present a clustering algorithm that performs nonlinear dimensionality reduction and clustering jointly. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

This paper applies conformal prediction techniques to compute simultaneous prediction bands and clustering trees for functional data. These tools can be used to detect outliers and clusters. Both our prediction bands and clustering trees…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-27 Jing Lei , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Clustering temporal and dynamically changing multivariate time series from real-world fields, called temporal clustering for short, has been a major challenge due to inherent complexities. Although several deep temporal clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhi Wang , Yanni Li , Pingping Zheng , Yiyuan Jiao

Multi-view clustering has shown to be an effective method for analyzing underlying patterns in multi-view data. The performance of clustering can be improved by learning the consistency and complementarity between multi-view features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shihao Dong , Yuhui Zheng , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu

This paper studies the large-scale subspace clustering (LSSC) problem with million data points. Many popular subspace clustering methods cannot directly handle the LSSC problem although they have been considered as state-of-the-art methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jun Li , Hongfu Liu , Zhiqiang Tao , Handong Zhao , Yun Fu

We propose two related unsupervised clustering algorithms which, for input, take data assumed to be sampled from a uniform distribution supported on a metric space $X$, and output a clustering of the data based on the selection of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Antonio Rieser

Generative approaches to clustering provide information on geometric properties of clusters, whereas discriminative approaches provide boundaries between clusters. Ideas from both approaches are incorporated to present a fully unsupervised,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-28 Mackenzie R. Neal , Paul D. McNicholas , Arthur White

In online clustering problems, there is often a large amount of uncertainty over possible cluster assignments that cannot be resolved until more data are observed. This difficulty is compounded when clusters follow complex distributions, as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-17 Connie Trojan , Pavel Myshkov , Paul Fearnhead , James Hensman , Tom Minka , Christopher Nemeth