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In this paper, the decades-old clustering method k-means is revisited. The original distortion minimization model of k-means is addressed by a pure stochastic minimization procedure. In each step of the iteration, one sample is tentatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Wan-Lei Zhao , Run-Qing Chen , Hui Ye , Chong-Wah Ngo

$k$-means++ \cite{arthur2007k} is a widely used clustering algorithm that is easy to implement, has nice theoretical guarantees and strong empirical performance. Despite its wide adoption, $k$-means++ sometimes suffers from being slow on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Christian Sohler , Ola Svensson

This paper investigates the following natural greedy procedure for clustering in the bi-criterion setting: iteratively grow a set of centers, in each round adding the center from a candidate set that maximally decreases clustering cost. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Daniel Hsu , Matus Telgarsky

In the era of big data, k-means clustering has been widely adopted as a basic processing tool in various contexts. However, its computational cost could be prohibitively high as the data size and the cluster number are large. It is well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Cheng-Hao Deng , Wan-Lei Zhao

Clustering is a separation of data into groups of similar objects. Every group called cluster consists of objects that are similar to one another and dissimilar to objects of other groups. In this paper, the K-Means algorithm is implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-03 P. Ashok , G. M Kadhar Nawaz , E. Elayaraja , V. Vadivel

K-means plays a vital role in data mining and is the simplest and most widely used algorithm under the Euclidean Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) model. However, its performance drastically drops when applied to vast amounts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Rustam Mussabayev , Nenad Mladenovic , Bassem Jarboui , Ravil Mussabayev

This paper presents a novel accelerated exact k-means algorithm called the Ball k-means algorithm, which uses a ball to describe a cluster, focusing on reducing the point-centroid distance computation. The Ball k-means can accurately find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Shuyin Xia , Daowan Peng , Deyu Meng , Changqing Zhang , Guoyin Wang , Zizhong Chen , Wei Wei

We study the problem of $k$-center clustering with outliers in arbitrary metrics and Euclidean space. Though a number of methods have been developed in the past decades, it is still quite challenging to design quality guaranteed algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Hu Ding , Haikuo Yu , Zixiu Wang

The K-means algorithm is arguably the most popular data clustering method, commonly applied to processed datasets in some "feature spaces", as is in spectral clustering. Highly sensitive to initializations, however, K-means encounters a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Feiyu Chen , Yuchen Yang , Liwei Xu , Taiping Zhang , Yin Zhang

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

This paper introduces Geometric-k-means (or Gk-means for short), a novel approach that significantly enhances the efficiency and energy economy of the widely utilized k-means algorithm, which, despite its inception over five decades ago,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Parichit Sharma , Marcin Stanislaw , Hasan Kurban , Oguzhan Kulekci , Mehmet Dalkilic

Due to the progressive growth of the amount of data available in a wide variety of scientific fields, it has become more difficult to ma- nipulate and analyze such information. Even though datasets have grown in size, the K-means algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-11 Marco Capó , Aritz Pérez , José Antonio Lozano

K-Means is one of the most used algorithms for data clustering and the usual clustering method for benchmarking. Despite its wide application it is well-known that it suffers from a series of disadvantages; it is only able to find local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Avgoustinos Vouros , Stephen Langdell , Mike Croucher , Eleni Vasilaki

In the classical NP-hard metric $k$-median problem, we are given a set of $n$ clients and centers with metric distances between them, along with an integer parameter $k\geq 1$. The objective is to select a subset of $k$ open centers that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Fabrizio Grandoni , Euiwoong Lee , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Ola Svensson

The k-means method is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms, drawing its popularity from its speed in practice. Recently, however, it was shown to have exponential worst-case running time. In order to close the gap between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-07 David Arthur , Bodo Manthey , Heiko Röglin

We introduce a sketch-and-solve approach to speed up the Peng-Wei semidefinite relaxation of k-means clustering. When the data is appropriately separated we identify the k-means optimal clustering. Otherwise, our approach provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Charles Clum , Dustin G. Mixon , Soledad Villar , Kaiying Xie

The $k$-$\mathtt{means}$++ seeding algorithm (Arthur & Vassilvitskii, 2007) is widely used in practice for the $k$-means clustering problem where the goal is to cluster a dataset $\mathcal{X} \subset \mathbb{R} ^d$ into $k$ clusters. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Poojan Shah , Shashwat Agrawal , Ragesh Jaiswal

K-means is a widely used algorithm in clustering, however, its efficiency is primarily constrained by the computational cost of distance computing. Existing implementations suffer from suboptimal utilization of computational units and lack…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shixun Wu , Yitong Ding , Yujia Zhai , Jinyang Liu , Jiajun Huang , Zizhe Jian , Huangliang Dai , Sheng Di , Bryan M. Wong , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

We present methods for k-means clustering on a stream with a focus on providing fast responses to clustering queries. Compared to the current state-of-the-art, our methods provide substantial improvement in the query time for cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yu Zhang , Kanat Tangwongsan , Srikanta Tirthapura

The recent framework of compressive statistical learning aims at designing tractable learning algorithms that use only a heavily compressed representation-or sketch-of massive datasets. Compressive K-Means (CKM) is such a method: it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Vincent Schellekens , Laurent Jacques