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We analyze online and mini-batch k-means variants. Both scale up the widely used Lloyd 's algorithm via stochastic approximation, and have become popular for large-scale clustering and unsupervised feature learning. We show, for the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Cheng Tang , Claire Monteleoni

Finding the number of meaningful clusters in an unlabeled dataset is important in many applications. Regularized k-means algorithm is a possible approach frequently used to find the correct number of distinct clusters in datasets. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Behzad Kamgar-Parsi , Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi

There is a long history of research into time series clustering using distance-based partitional clustering. Many of the most popular algorithms adapt k-means (also known as Lloyd's algorithm) to exploit time dependencies in the data by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Christopher Holder , Anthony Bagnall , Jason Lines

Effectively applying the K-means algorithm to clustering tasks with incomplete features remains an important research area due to its impact on real-world applications. Recent work has shown that unifying K-means clustering and imputation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Lovis Kwasi Armah , Igor Melnykov

In single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), K-means clustering algorithm is widely used in unsupervised 2D classification of projection images of biological macromolecules. 3D ab initio reconstruction requires accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-03 Yaofang Xu , Jiayi Wu , Chang-Cheng Yin , Youdong Mao

Although numerous clustering algorithms have been developed, many existing methods still leverage k-means technique to detect clusters of data points. However, the performance of k-means heavily depends on the estimation of centers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Quanxue Gao , Qianqian Wang , Han Lu , Wei Xia , Xinbo Gao

We consider the fundamental problem of balanced $k$-means clustering. In particular, we introduce an optimal transport approach to alternating minimization called BalLOT, and we show that it delivers a fast and effective solution to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-08 Wenyan Luo , Dustin G. Mixon

There has been much progress on efficient algorithms for clustering data points generated by a mixture of $k$ probability distributions under the assumption that the means of the distributions are well-separated, i.e., the distance between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-13 Amit Kumar , Ravindran Kannan

k-medoids algorithm is a partitional, centroid-based clustering algorithm which uses pairwise distances of data points and tries to directly decompose the dataset with $n$ points into a set of $k$ disjoint clusters. However, k-medoids…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Amin Aghaee , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

The minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC), or k-means type clustering, is traditionally considered an unsupervised learning task. In recent years, the use of background knowledge to improve the cluster quality and promote…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Veronica Piccialli , Anna Russo Russo , Antonio M. Sudoso

We study two generalizations of classic clustering problems called dynamic ordered $k$-median and dynamic $k$-supplier, where the points that need clustering evolve over time, and we are allowed to move the cluster centers between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shichuan Deng , Jian Li , Yuval Rabani

Comparison of three kind of the clustering and find cost function and loss function and calculate them. Error rate of the clustering methods and how to calculate the error percentage always be one on the important factor for evaluating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Kamran Kowsari

COVID-19 hits the world like a storm by arising pandemic situations for most of the countries around the world. The whole world is trying to overcome this pandemic situation. A better health care quality may help a country to tackle the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Md. Zubair , MD. Asif Iqbal , Avijeet Shil , Enamul Haque , Mohammed Moshiul Hoque , Iqbal H. Sarker

The $K$-means algorithm is extended to allow for partitioning of skewed groups. Our algorithm is called TiK-Means and contributes a $K$-means type algorithm that assigns observations to groups while estimating their skewness-transformation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Nicholas S. Berry , Ranjan Maitra

A robust clustering method for probabilities in Wasserstein space is introduced. This new "trimmed $k$-barycenters" approach relies on recent results on barycenters in Wasserstein space that allow intensive computation, as required by…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-06 E. del Barrio , J. A. Cuesta-Albertos , C. Matrán , A. Mayo-Íscar

Clustering is an unsupervised learning method that constitutes a cornerstone of an intelligent data analysis process. It is used for the exploration of inter-relationships among a collection of patterns, by organizing them into homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-04-13 G. Nathiya , S. C. Punitha , M. Punithavalli

Text extraction is a highly subjective problem which depends on the dataset that one is working on and the kind of summarization details that needs to be extracted out. All the steps ranging from preprocessing of the data, to the choice of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Shreyash Rawat , V. Vijayarajan , V. B. Surya Prasath

In sensor networks, it is not always practical to set up a fusion center. Therefore, there is need for fully decentralized clustering algorithms. Decentralized clustering algorithms should minimize the amount of data exchanged between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-13 Elsa Dupraz , Dominique Pastor , François-Xavier Socheleau

We propose a statistical method for clustering of multivariate longitudinal data into homogeneous groups. This method relies on a time-varying extension on the classical K-means algorithm, where a multivariate vector autoregressive model is…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-04-25 Antonello Maruotti , Maurizio Vichi

In this work, the possibility of clustering correlated random variables was examined, both because of their mutual similarity and because of their similarity to the principal components. The k-means algorithm and spectral algorithms were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Zenon Gniazdowski , Dawid Kaliszewski