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Clustering performs an essential role in many real world applications, such as market research, pattern recognition, data analysis, and image processing. However, due to the high dimensionality of the input feature values, the data being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Si Lu , Ruisi Li

Spectral-based subspace clustering methods have proved successful in many challenging applications such as gene sequencing, image recognition, and motion segmentation. In this work, we first propose a novel spectral-based subspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-09 Hankui Peng , Nicos G. Pavlidis

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer a means of addressing the challenging task of clustering high-dimensional data. DNNs can extract useful features, and so produce a lower dimensional representation, which is more amenable to clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning approach. Many clustering algorithms -- such as $k$-means -- rely on the euclidean distance as a similarity measure, which is often not the most relevant metric for high dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Aude Genevay , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Jean-Philippe Vert

The non-stationary nature of data streams strongly challenges traditional machine learning techniques. Although some solutions have been proposed to extend traditional machine learning techniques for handling data streams, these approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xuyang Yan , Abdollah Homaifar , Mrinmoy Sarkar , Abenezer Girma , Edward Tunstel

This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised clustering which remains one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. We propose the clustered generator model for clustering which contains both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-20 Dandan Zhu , Tian Han , Linqi Zhou , Xiaokang Yang , Ying Nian Wu

Subspace clustering methods based on data self-expression have become very popular for learning from data that lie in a union of low-dimensional linear subspaces. However, the applicability of subspace clustering has been limited because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Junjian Zhang , Chun-Guang Li , Chong You , Xianbiao Qi , Honggang Zhang , Jun Guo , Zhouchen Lin

Convex clustering, a convex relaxation of k-means clustering and hierarchical clustering, has drawn recent attentions since it nicely addresses the instability issue of traditional nonconvex clustering methods. Although its computational…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-01 Binhuan Wang , Yilong Zhang , Will Wei Sun , Yixin Fang

Whilst contrastive learning has recently brought notable benefits to deep clustering of unlabelled images by learning sample-specific discriminative visual features, its potential for explicitly inferring class decision boundaries is less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

Spectral clustering is a popular clustering method. It first maps data into the spectral embedding space and then uses Kmeans to find clusters. However, the two decoupled steps prohibit joint optimization for the optimal solution. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wengang Guo , Wei Ye

The success of deep learning (DL) is often achieved with large models and high complexity during both training and post-training inferences, hindering training in resource-limited settings. To alleviate these issues, this paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 En-hui Yang , Shayan Mohajer Hamidi

This paper provides a review of past approaches to the use of deep-learning frameworks for the analysis of discrete irregular-patterned complex sequential datasets. A typical example of such a dataset is financial data where specific events…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Kudakwashe Dandajena , Isabella M. Venter , Mehrdad Ghaziasgar , Reg Dodds

Recent efforts have been made on acoustic scene classification in the audio signal processing community. In contrast, few studies have been conducted on acoustic scene clustering, which is a newly emerging problem. Acoustic scene clustering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Yanxiong Li , Mingle Liu , Wucheng Wang , Yuhan Zhang , Qianhua He

Despite tremendous advancements in Artificial Intelligence, learning from large sets of data in an unsupervised manner remains a significant challenge. Classical clustering algorithms often fail to discover complex dependencies in large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Adam Piróg , Halina Kwaśnicka

Clustering algorithms aim to organize data into groups or clusters based on the inherent patterns and similarities within the data. They play an important role in today's life, such as in marketing and e-commerce, healthcare, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hui Yin , Amir Aryani , Stephen Petrie , Aishwarya Nambissan , Aland Astudillo , Shengyuan Cao

While sparse coding-based clustering methods have shown to be successful, their bottlenecks in both efficiency and scalability limit the practical usage. In recent years, deep learning has been proved to be a highly effective, efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Zhangyang Wang , Shiyu Chang , Jiayu Zhou , Meng Wang , Thomas S. Huang

Clustering is a fundamental tool that has garnered significant interest across a wide range of applications including text analysis. To improve clustering accuracy, many researchers have incorporated background knowledge, typically in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Chaoqi Jia , Weihong Wu , Longkun Guo , Zhigang Lu , Chao Chen , Kok-Leong Ong

Deep clustering uncovers hidden patterns and groups in complex time series data, yet its opaque decision-making limits use in safety-critical settings. This survey offers a structured overview of explainable deep clustering for time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Udo Schlegel , Gabriel Marques Tavares , Thomas Seidl

Text clustering is a fundamental task in natural language processing, yet traditional clustering algorithms with pre-trained embeddings often struggle in domain-specific contexts without costly fine-tuning. Large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yiming Xu , Yuan Yuan , Vijay Viswanathan , Graham Neubig

Given a network, allocating resources at clusters level, rather than at each node, enhances efficiency in resource allocation and usage. In this paper, we study the problem of finding fully connected disjoint clusters to minimize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Benedikt Schesch , Marco Caserta