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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…

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One of the main challenges for hierarchical clustering is how to appropriately identify the representative points in the lower level of the cluster tree, which are going to be utilized as the roots in the higher level of the cluster tree…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Wen-Bo Xie , Zhen Liu , Jaideep Srivastava

Clustering is an essential technique for discovering patterns in data. The steady increase in amount and complexity of data over the years led to improvements and development of new clustering algorithms. However, algorithms that can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-03 Shu Wang , Jonathan G. Yabes , Chung-Chou H. Chang

Clustering techniques are very attractive for extracting and identifying patterns in datasets. However, their application to very large spatial datasets presents numerous challenges such as high-dimensionality data, heterogeneity, and high…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Malika Bendechache , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

We discuss topological aspects of cluster analysis and show that inferring the topological structure of a dataset before clustering it can considerably enhance cluster detection: theoretical arguments and empirical evidence show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Moritz Herrmann , Daniyal Kazempour , Fabian Scheipl , Peer Kröger

We develop a new density-based clustering algorithm named CRAD which is based on a new neighbor searching function with a robust data depth as the dissimilarity measure. Our experiments prove that the new CRAD is highly competitive at…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-09 Xin Huang , Yulia R. Gel

Density-based clustering algorithms like DBSCAN and HDBSCAN are foundational tools for discovering arbitrarily shaped clusters, yet their practical utility is undermined by acute hyperparameter sensitivity -- parameters tuned on one dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ahmed Elmahdi

Cluster separation is a task typically tackled by widely used clustering techniques, such as k-means or DBSCAN. However, these algorithms are based on non-perceptual metrics, and our experiments demonstrate that their output does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Sebastian Hartwig , Christian van Onzenoodt , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

DBSCAN and OPTICS are powerful algorithms for identifying clusters of points in domains where few assumptions can be made about the structure of the data. In this paper, we leverage these strengths and introduce a new algorithm, LINSCAN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Andrew Dennehy , Xiaoyu Zou , Shabnam J. Semnani , Yuri Fialko , Alexander Cloninger

A hierarchical scheme for clustering data is presented which applies to spaces with a high number of dimension ($N_{_{D}}>3$). The data set is first reduced to a smaller set of partitions (multi-dimensional bins). Multiple clustering…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-10-16 Kevin McIlhany , Stephen Wiggins

Density-based clustering algorithms are widely used for discovering clusters in pattern recognition and machine learning since they can deal with non-hyperspherical clusters and are robustness to handle outliers. However, the runtime of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Difei Cheng , Ruihang Xu , Bo Zhang , Ruinan Jin

We introduce Lumbermark, a robust divisive clustering algorithm capable of detecting clusters of varying sizes, densities, and shapes. Lumbermark iteratively chops off large limbs connected by protruding segments of a dataset's mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Marek Gagolewski

There has been a surge in the number of large and flat data sets - data sets containing a large number of features and a relatively small number of observations - due to the growing ability to collect and store information in medical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-05 Hongyang Zhang , Ruben H. Zamar

We propose a fast and dynamic algorithm for Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) that efficiently supports online updates. Traditional DBSCAN algorithms, designed for batch processing, become computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Seiyun Shin , Ilan Shomorony , Peter Macgregor

In high-dimension, low-sample size (HDLSS) data, it is not always true that closeness of two objects reflects a hidden cluster structure. We point out the important fact that it is not the closeness, but the "values" of distance that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-30 Yoshikazu Terada

Clustering real world data often faced with curse of dimensionality, where real world data often consist of many dimensions. Multidimensional data clustering evaluation can be done through a density-based approach. Density approaches based…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Rahmat Widia Sembiring , Jasni Mohamad Zain

The applicability of agglomerative clustering, for inferring both hierarchical and flat clustering, is limited by its scalability. Existing scalable hierarchical clustering methods sacrifice quality for speed and often lead to over-merging…

Bagging and boosting are proved to be the best methods of building multiple classifiers in classification combination problems. In the area of "flat clustering" problems, it is also recognized that multi-clustering methods based on boosting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Elaheh Rashedi , Abdolreza Mirzaei

Density-based clustering is the most popular clustering algorithm since it can identify clusters of arbitrary shape as long as they are separated by low-density regions. However, a high-density region that is not separated by low-density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Hao Shu

A novel elastic time distance for sparse multivariate functional data is proposed and used to develop a robust distance-based two-layer partition clustering method. With this proposed distance, the new approach not only can detect correct…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-21 Zhuo Qu , Wenlin Dai , Marc G. Genton