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We suggest efficient and provable methods to compute an approximation for imbalanced point clustering, that is, fitting $k$-centers to a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, for any $d,k\geq 1$. To this end, we utilize \emph{coresets}, which,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 David Denisov , Dan Feldman , Shlomi Dolev , Michael Segal

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

Time series clustering poses a significant challenge with diverse applications across domains. A prominent drawback of existing solutions lies in their limited interpretability, often confined to presenting users with centroids. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Paul Boniol , Donato Tiano , Angela Bonifati , Themis Palpanas

Dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques are frequently used to analyze complex data sets, but their results are often not easy to interpret. We consider how to support users in interpreting apparent cluster structure on scatter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Xander Vankwikelberge , Bo Kang , Edith Heiter , Jefrey Lijffijt

Categorical sequence clustering plays a crucial role in various fields, but the lack of interpretability in cluster assignments poses significant challenges. Sequences inherently lack explicit features, and existing sequence clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Junjie Dong , Xinyi Yang , Mudi Jiang , Lianyu Hu , Zengyou He

We consider the problem of generating interpretable recommendations by identifying overlapping co-clusters of clients and products, based only on positive or implicit feedback. Our approach is applicable on very large datasets because it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Reinhard Heckel , Michail Vlachos , Thomas Parnell , Celestine Dünner

Cluster analysis is a popular unsupervised learning tool used in many disciplines to identify heterogeneous sub-populations within a sample. However, validating cluster analysis results and determining the number of clusters in a data set…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-26 Ali Turfah , Xiaoquan Wen

Clustering can be defined as the process of assembling objects into a number of groups whose elements are similar to each other in some manner. As a technique that is used in many domains, such as face clustering, plant categorization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mehmet F. Demirel , Enrico Au-Yeung

We propose a simple and efficient clustering method for high-dimensional data with a large number of clusters. Our algorithm achieves high-performance by evaluating distances of datapoints with a subset of the cluster centres. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Georgios Exarchakis , Omar Oubari , Gregor Lenz

Clustering data is a popular feature in the field of unsupervised machine learning. Most algorithms aim to find the best method to extract consistent clusters of data, but very few of them intend to cluster data that share the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jean-Sébastien Dessureault , Daniel Massicotte

We propose a deep clustering architecture alongside image segmentation for medical image analysis. The main idea is based on unsupervised learning to cluster images on severity of the disease in the subject's sample, and this image is then…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Sharmin Pathan , Anant Tripathi

Clustering samples according to an effective metric and/or vector space representation is a challenging unsupervised learning task with a wide spectrum of applications. Among several clustering algorithms, k-means and its kernelized version…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Marco Jacopo Ferrarotti , Sergio Decherchi , Walter Rocchia

Clustering partitions a dataset such that observations placed together in a group are similar but different from those in other groups. Hierarchical and $K$-means clustering are two approaches but have different strengths and weaknesses.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Anna D. Peterson , Arka P. Ghosh , Ranjan Maitra

This thesis aims to invent new approaches for making inferences with the k-means algorithm. k-means is an iterative clustering algorithm that randomly assigns k centroids, then assigns data points to the nearest centroid, and updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Alfred K. Adzika , Prudence Djagba

Multiple kernel methods based on k-means aims to integrate a group of kernels to improve the performance of kernel k-means clustering. However, we observe that most existing multiple kernel k-means methods exploit the nonlinear relationship…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Liang Du , Haiying Zhang , Xin Ren , Xiaolin Lv

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

Clustering is an effective technique in data mining to generate groups that are the matter of interest. Among various clustering approaches, the family of k-means algorithms and min-cut algorithms gain most popularity due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang

Nonlinear manifolds are pervasive in deep visual features, where Euclidean distances can misrepresent true similarity. This mismatch is particularly detrimental to prototype-based interpretable fine-grained recognition, where even subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Junhao Jia , Yunyou Liu , Yifei Sun , Huangwei Chen , Feiwei Qin , Changmiao Wang , Yong Peng

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

Deep clustering algorithms combine representation learning and clustering by jointly optimizing a clustering loss and a non-clustering loss. In such methods, a deep neural network is used for representation learning together with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Abien Fred Agarap , Arnulfo P. Azcarraga