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Clustering is essential in data analysis and machine learning, but traditional algorithms like $k$-means and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) often fail with nonconvex clusters. To address the challenge, we introduce the Flexible Bivariate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yung-Peng Hsu , Hung-Hsuan Chen

Mixture models extend the toolbox of clustering methods available to the data analyst. They allow for an explicit definition of the cluster shapes and structure within a probabilistic framework and exploit estimation and inference…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-15 Bettina Grün

In mixture model-based clustering applications, it is common to fit several models from a family and report clustering results from only the `best' one. In such circumstances, selection of this best model is achieved using a model selection…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Yuhong Wei , Paul D. McNicholas

Clustering algorithms start with a fixed divergence, which captures the possibly asymmetric distance between a sample and a centroid. In the mixture model setting, the sample distribution plays the same role. When all attributes have the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Mehmet Emin Basbug , Barbara Engelhardt

Functional data analysis (FDA) is an important modern paradigm for handling infinite-dimensional data. An important task in FDA is model-based clustering, which organizes functional populations into groups via subpopulation structures. The…

Computation · Statistics 2017-02-14 Hien D Nguyen , Geoffrey J McLachlan , Jeremy F P Ullmann , Andrew L Janke

Distributed data mining techniques and mainly distributed clustering are widely used in the last decade because they deal with very large and heterogeneous datasets which cannot be gathered centrally. Current distributed clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Malika Bendechache , M-Tahar Kechadi

This paper introduces a method for studying the correlation structure of a range of responses modelled by a multivariate generalised linear mixed model (MGLMM). The methodology requires the existence of clusters of observations and that…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-02 Jeanett S. Pelck , Rodrigo Labouriau

Bi-clustering is a technique that allows for the simultaneous clustering of observations and features in a dataset. This technique is often used in bioinformatics, text mining, and time series analysis. An important advantage of…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-09 Anastasiia Livochka , Ryan Browne , Sanjeena Subedi

Clustering is widely used in unsupervised learning to find homogeneous groups of observations within a dataset. However, clustering mixed-type data remains a challenge, as few existing approaches are suited for this task. This study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Badih Ghattas , Alvaro Sanchez San-Benito

Unsupervised anomaly detection aims to identify anomalous samples from highly complex and unstructured data, which is pervasive in both fundamental research and industrial applications. However, most existing methods neglect the complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Haoyi Fan , Fengbin Zhang , Ruidong Wang , Liang Xi , Zuoyong Li

The paper is motivated from clustering problem in high-throughput mixed datasets. Clustering of such datasets can provide much insight into biological associations. An open problem in this context is to simultaneously cluster…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-15 Chetkar Jha

In clustering we normally output one cluster variable for each datapoint. However it is not necessarily the case that there is only one way to partition a given dataset into cluster components. For example, one could cluster objects by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Matthew Willetts , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu

Knowledge of functional groupings of neurons can shed light on structures of neural circuits and is valuable in many types of neuroimaging studies. However, accurately determining which neurons carry out similar neurological tasks via…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-03 Tianyi Yao , Genevera I. Allen

Clustering in dynamic environments is of increasing importance, with broad applications ranging from real-time data analysis and online unsupervised learning to dynamic facility location problems. While meta-heuristics have shown promising…

Clustering multi-view data has been a fundamental research topic in the computer vision community. It has been shown that a better accuracy can be achieved by integrating information of all the views than just using one view individually.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Ming Yin , Weitian Huang , Junbin Gao

Deep embedded clustering has become a dominating approach to unsupervised categorization of objects with deep neural networks. The optimization of the most popular methods alternates between the training of a deep autoencoder and a k-means…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-04 Ahcène Boubekki , Michael Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen , Ulf Brefeld

We consider the problem of inferring an unknown number of clusters in replicated multinomial data. Under a model based clustering point of view, this task can be treated by estimating finite mixtures of multinomial distributions with or…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-07 Panagiotis Papastamoulis

Gaussian Mixture Models are one of the most studied and mature models in unsupervised learning. However, outliers are often present in the data and could influence the cluster estimation. In this paper, we study a new model that assumes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-24 Sida Liu , Adrian Barbu

Do expert-defined or diagnostically-labeled data groups align with clusters inferred through statistical modeling? If not, where do discrepancies between predefined labels and model-based groupings occur and why? In this work, we introduce…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-18 Patricia Puchhammer , Ines Wilms , Peter Filzmoser