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Detecting communities or the modular structure of real-life networks (e.g. a social network or a product purchase network) is an important task because the way a network functions is often determined by its communities. Traditional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Swarup Chattopadhyay , Debasis Ganguly

Clustering is a fundamental learning task widely used as a first step in data analysis. For example, biologists use cluster assignments to analyze genome sequences, medical records, or images. Since downstream analysis is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jonathan Svirsky , Ofir Lindenbaum

Clustering is a popular form of unsupervised learning for geometric data. Unfortunately, many clustering algorithms lead to cluster assignments that are hard to explain, partially because they depend on all the features of the data in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Nave Frost , Michal Moshkovitz , Cyrus Rashtchian

We present CLUSTSEG, a general, transformer-based framework that tackles different image segmentation tasks (i.e., superpixel, semantic, instance, and panoptic) through a unified neural clustering scheme. Regarding queries as cluster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 James Liang , Tianfei Zhou , Dongfang Liu , Wenguan Wang

We introduce a novel criterion in clustering that seeks clusters with limited range of values associated with each cluster's elements. In clustering or classification the objective is to partition a set of objects into subsets, called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Dorit S. Hochbaum

Graph clustering problems typically aim to partition the graph nodes such that two nodes belong to the same partition set if and only if they are similar. Correlation Clustering is a graph clustering formulation which: (1) takes as input a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

Clustering is a widely used technique in data mining applications for discovering patterns in underlying data. Most traditional clustering algorithms are limited to handling datasets that contain either numeric or categorical attributes.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

Superpixels are widely used in computer vision applications. Nevertheless, decomposition methods may still fail to efficiently cluster image pixels according to their local texture. In this paper, we propose a new Nearest Neighbor-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Rémi Giraud , Yannick Berthoumieu

Functional data present unique challenges for clustering due to their infinite-dimensional nature and potential sensitivity to outliers. An extension of the OCLUST algorithm to the functional setting is proposed to address these issues. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-06 Katharine M. Clark , Paul D. McNicholas

It is often of interest to perform clustering on longitudinal data, yet it is difficult to formulate an intuitive model for which estimation is computationally feasible. We propose a model-based clustering method for clustering objects that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-19 Daniel K. Sewell , Yuguo Chen , William Bernhard , Tracy Sulkin

It is essential for safety-critical applications of deep neural networks to determine when new inputs are significantly different from the training distribution. In this paper, we explore this out-of-distribution (OOD) detection problem for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Poulami Sinhamahapatra , Rajat Koner , Karsten Roscher , Stephan Günnemann

The clustering of unlabeled raw images is a daunting task, which has recently been approached with some success by deep learning methods. Here we propose an unsupervised clustering framework, which learns a deep neural network in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Guy Shiran , Daphna Weinshall

Recent work on explainable clustering allows describing clusters when the features are interpretable. However, much modern machine learning focuses on complex data such as images, text, and graphs where deep learning is used but the raw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Hongjing Zhang , Ian Davidson

Algorithms for community detection are usually stochastic, leading to different partitions for different choices of random seeds. Consensus clustering has proven to be an effective technique to derive more stable and accurate partitions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Aditya Tandon , Aiiad Albeshri , Vijey Thayananthan , Wadee Alhalabi , Santo Fortunato

Clustering is a popular machine learning technique for data mining that can process and analyze datasets to automatically reveal sample distribution patterns. Since the ubiquitous categorical data naturally lack a well-defined metric space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yiqun Zhang , Mingjie Zhao , Hong Jia , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung

Clustering aims to group unlabeled objects based on similarity inherent among them into clusters. It is important for many tasks such as anomaly detection, database sharding, record linkage, and others. Some clustering methods are taken as…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Binbin Gu , Saeed Kargar , Faisal Nawab

Clustering is an important facet of explorative data mining and finds extensive use in several fields. In this paper, we propose an extension of the classical Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm. The proposed algorithm, abbreviated as VFC,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Srinjoy Ganguly , Digbalay Bose , Amit Konar

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

Clustering is an unsupervised learning problem that aims to partition unlabelled data points into groups with similar features. Traditional clustering algorithms provide limited insight into the groups they find as their main focus is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

Nested sampling is an efficient algorithm for the calculation of the Bayesian evidence and posterior parameter probability distributions. It is based on the step-by-step exploration of the parameter space by Monte Carlo sampling with a…

Computation · Statistics 2024-01-30 M. Trassinelli , Pierre Ciccodicola