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Kernel survival analysis models estimate individual survival distributions with the help of a kernel function, which measures the similarity between any two data points. Such a kernel function can be learned using deep kernel survival…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 George H. Chen

Keeping in consideration the high demand for clustering, this paper focuses on understanding and implementing K-means clustering using two different similarity measures. We have tried to cluster the documents using two different measures…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Manan Mohan Goyal , Neha Agrawal , Manoj Kumar Sarma , Nayan Jyoti Kalita

One key use of k-means clustering is to identify cluster prototypes which can serve as representative points for a dataset. However, a drawback of using k-means cluster centers as representative points is that such points distort the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-15 Arvind Krishna , Simon Mak , Roshan Joseph

Clustering is a difficult and widely-studied data mining task, with many varieties of clustering algorithms proposed in the literature. Nearly all algorithms use a similarity measure such as a distance metric (e.g. Euclidean distance) to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Andrew Lensen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

K-Means clustering algorithm is one of the most commonly used clustering algorithms because of its simplicity and efficiency. K-Means clustering algorithm based on Euclidean distance only pays attention to the linear distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yiqun Zhang , Houbiao Li

We examine the efficiency of clustering a set of points, when the encompassing metric space may be preprocessed in advance. In computational problems of this genre, there is a first stage of preprocessing, whose input is a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Tsvi Kopelowitz , Robert Krauthgamer

Similarity-based clustering methods separate data into clusters according to the pairwise similarity between the data, and the pairwise similarity is crucial for their performance. In this paper, we propose {\em Clustering by Discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yingzhen Yang , Ping Li

A new interpoint distance-based measure is proposed to identify the optimal number of clusters present in a data set. Designed in nonparametric approach, it is independent of the distribution of given data. Interpoint distances between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Soumita Modak

Hyperspectral imaging is a powerful technology that is plagued by large dimensionality. Herein, we explore a way to combat that hindrance via non-contiguous and contiguous (simpler to realize sensor) band grouping for dimensionality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-31 Muhammad Aminul Islam , Derek T. Anderson , John E. Ball , Nicolas H. Younan

Clustering multi-dimensional points is a fundamental task in many fields, and density-based clustering supports many applications as it can discover clusters of arbitrary shapes. This paper addresses the problem of Density-Peaks Clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Daichi Amagata , Takahiro Hara

We study the problem of applying spectral clustering to cluster multi-scale data, which is data whose clusters are of various sizes and densities. Traditional spectral clustering techniques discover clusters by processing a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xiang Li , Ben Kao , Caihua Shan , Dawei Yin , Martin Ester

This paper describes a method for clustering data that are spread out over large regions and which dimensions are on different scales of measurement. Such an algorithm was developed to implement a robotics application consisting in sorting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Joris Guérin , Olivier Gibaru , Stéphane Thiery , Eric Nyiri

We develop and analyze a method to reduce the size of a very large set of data points in a high dimensional Euclidean space R d to a small set of weighted points such that the result of a predetermined data analysis task on the reduced set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Dan Feldman , Melanie Schmidt , Christian Sohler

Clustering is a widely used and powerful machine learning technique, but its effectiveness is often limited by the need to specify the number of clusters, k, or by relying on thresholds that implicitly determine k. We introduce k*-means, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Louis Mahon , Mirella Lapata

We consider the problem of clustering misaligned curves. According to our similarity measure, two curves are considered similar if they have the same shape after being aligned, and the warping function does not differ from the identity…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-01-03 Yu-Hsiang Cheng , Tzee-Ming Huang , Su-Fen Yang

We address the classical problem of hierarchical clustering, but in a framework where one does not have access to a representation of the objects or their pairwise similarities. Instead, we assume that only a set of comparisons between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Michaël Perrot , Ulrike von Luxburg

The proliferation of high-dimensional data from sources such as social media, sensor networks, and online platforms has created new challenges for clustering algorithms. Multi-view clustering, which integrates complementary information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Chakib Fettal , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif

Fair clustering is a constrained variant of clustering where the goal is to partition a set of colored points, such that the fraction of points of any color in every cluster is more or less equal to the fraction of points of this color in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Kirill Simonov

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

Measuring dataset similarity is fundamental in machine learning, particularly for transfer learning and domain adaptation. In the context of supervised learning, most existing approaches quantify similarity of two data sets based on their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-22 Shudong Sun , Hao Helen Zhang , Joseph C Watkins