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One of the applications of center-based clustering algorithms such as K-Means is partitioning data points into K clusters. In some examples, the feature space relates to the underlying problem we are trying to solve, and sometimes we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ali Hassani , Amir Iranmanesh , Mahdi Eftekhari , Abbas Salemi

Clustering categorical data is an integral part of data mining and has attracted much attention recently. In this paper, we present k-histogram, a new efficient algorithm for clustering categorical data. The k-histogram algorithm extends…

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

K-means is one of the most widely used algorithms for clustering in Data Mining applications, which attempts to minimize the sum of the square of the Euclidean distance of the points in the clusters from the respective means of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sayantan Dasgupta

The $k$-Means clustering problem on $n$ points is NP-Hard for any dimension $d\ge 2$, however, for the 1D case there exists exact polynomial time algorithms. Previous literature reported an $O(kn^2)$ time dynamic programming algorithm that…

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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

We address general-shaped clustering problems under very weak parametric assumptions with a two-step hybrid robust clustering algorithm based on trimmed k-means and hierarchical agglomeration. The algorithm has low computational complexity…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-19 Luca Insolia , Domenico Perrotta

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

Motivated by the increasing availability of low- and mixed-precision arithmetic on modern hardware, we develop mixed-precision variants of Lloyd's algorithm for k-means clustering. The main ingredient is a family of mixed-precision kernels…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Erin Carson , Xinye Chen , Xiaobo Liu

Federated clustering, an integral aspect of federated machine learning, enables multiple data sources to collaboratively cluster their data, maintaining decentralization and preserving privacy. In this paper, we introduce a novel federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Patrick Holzer , Tania Jacob , Shubham Kavane

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

Reduced k-means clustering is a method for clustering objects in a low-dimensional subspace. The advantage of this method is that both clustering of objects and low-dimensional subspace reflecting the cluster structure are simultaneously…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Yoshikazu Terada

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

This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of prominent clustering algorithms K-means, DBSCAN, and Spectral Clustering on high-dimensional datasets. We introduce a novel evaluation framework that assesses clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Vishnu Vardhan Baligodugula , Fathi Amsaad

We study the topic of dimensionality reduction for $k$-means clustering. Dimensionality reduction encompasses the union of two approaches: \emph{feature selection} and \emph{feature extraction}. A feature selection based algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christos Boutsidis , Anastasios Zouzias , Michael W. Mahoney , Petros Drineas

Clustering, a fundamental activity in unsupervised learning, is notoriously difficult when the feature space is high-dimensional. Fortunately, in many realistic scenarios, only a handful of features are relevant in distinguishing clusters.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Zhiyue Zhang , Kenneth Lange , Jason Xu

Deep learning models have become widely adopted in various domains, but their performance heavily relies on a vast amount of data. Datasets often contain a large number of irrelevant or redundant samples, which can lead to computational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Boris Bergsma , Marta Brzezinska , Oleg V. Yazyev , Milos Cernak

This paper presents a unified matrix factorization framework for classical and robust clustering. We begin by revisiting the well-known equivalence between crisp k-means clustering and matrix factorization, following and rigorously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Angshul Majumdar

K-means is a classical clustering algorithm with wide applications. However, soft K-means, or fuzzy c-means at m=1, remains unsolved since 1981. To address this challenging open problem, we propose a novel clustering model, i.e.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Yujian Li , Bowen Liu , Zhaoying Liu , Ting Zhang

Spherical k-Means is frequently used to cluster document collections because it performs reasonably well in many settings and is computationally efficient. However, the time complexity increases linearly with the number of clusters k, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Johannes Knittel , Steffen Koch , Thomas Ertl

Clustering stands as one of the most prominent challenges in unsupervised machine learning. Among centroid-based methods, the classic $k$-means algorithm, based on Lloyd's heuristic, is widely used. Nonetheless, it is a well-known fact that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-30 Supratik Basu , Jyotishka Ray Choudhury , Debolina Paul , Swagatam Das