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In this paper, an improved clustering technique for large textual datasets by leveraging fine-tuned word embeddings is presented. WEClustering technique is used as the base model. WEClustering model is fur-ther improvements incorporating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Vijay Kumar Sutrakar , Nikhil Mogre

Hierarchical clustering (HC) is an important data analysis technique in which the goal is to recursively partition a dataset into a tree-like structure while grouping together similar data points at each level of granularity. Unfortunately,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Vladimir Braverman , Jon C. Ergun , Chen Wang , Samson Zhou

This paper explores hierarchical clustering in the case where pairs of points have dissimilarity scores (e.g. distances) as a part of the input. The recently introduced objective for points with dissimilarity scores results in every tree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Benjamin Moseley , Yuyan Wang

Clustering, a fundamental task in data science and machine learning, groups a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same cluster are closer to each other than to those in other clusters. In this paper, we consider a well-known…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Georgia Avarikioti , Alain Ryser , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

Hierarchical clustering is a stronger extension of one of today's most influential unsupervised learning methods: clustering. The goal of this method is to create a hierarchy of clusters, thus constructing cluster evolutionary history and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-14 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Marina Knittel

Hierarchical Clustering (HC) is a widely studied problem in exploratory data analysis, usually tackled by simple agglomerative procedures like average-linkage, single-linkage or complete-linkage. In this paper we focus on two objectives,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Moses Charikar , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh

Recently, Hierarchical Clustering (HC) has been considered through the lens of optimization. In particular, two maximization objectives have been defined. Moseley and Wang defined the \emph{Revenue} objective to handle similarity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Danny Vainstein , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Gui Citovsky , Anand Rajagopalan , Mohammad Mahdian , Yossi Azar

Recent works on Hierarchical Clustering (HC), a well-studied problem in exploratory data analysis, have focused on optimizing various objective functions for this problem under arbitrary similarity measures. In this paper we take the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Moses Charikar , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Clustering high-dimensional datasets is hard because interpoint distances become less informative in high-dimensional spaces. We present a clustering algorithm that performs nonlinear dimensionality reduction and clustering jointly. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

Image clustering is one of the most important computer vision applications, which has been extensively studied in literature. However, current clustering methods mostly suffer from lack of efficiency and scalability when dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Kamran Ghasedi Dizaji , Amirhossein Herandi , Cheng Deng , Weidong Cai , Heng Huang

Hierarchical Clustering has been studied and used extensively as a method for analysis of data. More recently, Dasgupta [2016] defined a precise objective function. Given a set of $n$ data points with a weight function $w_{i,j}$ for each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Mirmahdi Rahgoshay , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

Hierarchical Clustering is an unsupervised data analysis method which has been widely used for decades. Despite its popularity, it had an underdeveloped analytical foundation and to address this, Dasgupta recently introduced an optimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Sara Ahmadian , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Alessandro Epasto , Euiwoong Lee , Mohammad Mahdian , Konstantin Makarychev , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

We examine methods for clustering in high dimensions. In the first part of the paper, we perform an experimental comparison between three batch clustering algorithms: the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm, a winner take all version of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Marina Meila , David Heckerman

Hierarchical clustering is a widely used approach for clustering datasets at multiple levels of granularity. Despite its popularity, existing algorithms such as hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) are limited to the offline setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Aditya Krishna Menon , Anand Rajagopalan , Baris Sumengen , Gui Citovsky , Qin Cao , Sanjiv Kumar

We present memory-efficient and scalable algorithms for kernel methods used in machine learning. Using hierarchical matrix approximations for the kernel matrix the memory requirements, the number of floating point operations, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Elizaveta Rebrova , Gustavo Chavez , Yang Liu , Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye Sherry Li

Estimating the number of clusters and cluster structures in unlabeled, complex, and high-dimensional datasets (like images) is challenging for traditional clustering algorithms. In recent years, a matrix reordering-based algorithm called…

Hierarchical Clustering is a popular unsupervised machine learning method with decades of history and numerous applications. We initiate the study of differentially private approximation algorithms for hierarchical clustering under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jacob Imola , Alessandro Epasto , Mohammad Mahdian , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Vahab Mirrokni

We consider the problem of jointly modeling and clustering populations of tensors by introducing a high-dimensional tensor mixture model with heterogeneous covariances. To effectively tackle the high dimensionality of tensor objects, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-21 Biao Cai , Jingfei Zhang , Will Wei Sun

Hierarchical clustering is a popular unsupervised data analysis method. For many real-world applications, we would like to exploit prior information about the data that imposes constraints on the clustering hierarchy, and is not captured by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh , Moses Charikar

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised machine learning with many applications in data analysis. Popular clustering algorithms such as Lloyd's algorithm and $k$-means++ can take $\Omega(ndk)$ time when clustering $n$ points in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Moses Charikar , Monika Henzinger , Lunjia Hu , Maxmilian Vötsch , Erik Waingarten
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