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Subspace clustering refers to the problem of clustering high-dimensional data into a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Current subspace clustering approaches are usually based on a two-stage framework. In the first stage, an affinity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Shuai Yang , Wenqi Zhu , Yuesheng Zhu

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 introduce a novel statistical significance-based approach for clustering hierarchical data using semi-parametric linear mixed-effects models designed for responses with laws in the exponential family (e.g., Poisson and Bernoulli). Within…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-04 Alessandra Ragni , Chiara Masci , Francesca Ieva , Anna Maria Paganoni

Brown clustering is a hard, hierarchical, bottom-up clustering of words in a vocabulary. Words are assigned to clusters based on their usage pattern in a given corpus. The resulting clusters and hierarchical structure can be used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Manuel R. Ciosici

There are many clustering methods, such as hierarchical clustering method. Most of the approaches to the clustering of variables encountered in the literature are of hierarchical type. The great majority of hierarchical approaches to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-01-25 Rahmat Widia Sembiring , Jasni Mohamad Zain , Abdullah Embong

Subspace clustering is to find underlying low-dimensional subspaces and cluster the data points correctly. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-view subspace clustering method. Most existing methods suffer from two critical issues.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mengyuan Zhang , Kai Liu

Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis, yet for a long time it lacked a principled objective function. Dasgupta [STOC 2016] initiated a formal framework by introducing a discrete objective function for cluster trees.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ryuki Tsukuba , Kazutoshi Ando

Data stream clustering reveals patterns within continuously arriving, potentially unbounded data sequences. Numerous data stream algorithms have been proposed to cluster data streams. The existing data stream clustering algorithms still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Yuanbiao Gou , Xi Peng

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

Co-clustering simultaneously clusters rows and columns, revealing more fine-grained groups. However, existing co-clustering methods suffer from poor scalability and cannot handle large-scale data. This paper presents a novel and scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zihan Wu , Zhaoke Huang , Hong Yan

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering is one of the most widely used approaches for exploring how observations in a dataset relate to each other. However, its greedy nature makes it highly sensitive to small perturbations in the data, often…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Di Wu , Jacob Bien , Snigdha Panigrahi

We consider stochastic settings for clustering, and develop provably-good approximation algorithms for a number of these notions. These algorithms yield better approximation ratios compared to the usual deterministic clustering setting.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Shi Li , Thomas Pensyl , Aravind Srinivasan , Khoa Trinh

Comparing clusterings is central to evaluating unsupervised models, yet the many existing similarity measures can produce widely divergent, sometimes contradictory, evaluations. Clustering similarity measures are typically organized into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-06 Alexander J. Gates

The study of algorithmic fairness received growing attention recently. This stems from the awareness that bias in the input data for machine learning systems may result in discriminatory outputs. For clustering tasks, one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Katrin Casel , Tobias Friedrich , Martin Schirneck , Simon Wietheger

Clustering algorithms are pivotal in data analysis, enabling the organization of data into meaningful groups. However, individual clustering methods often exhibit inherent limitations and biases, preventing the development of a universal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-13 H. Jahani , F. Zamio

Quality assessments of models in unsupervised learning and clustering verification in particular have been a long-standing problem in the machine learning research. The lack of robust and universally applicable cluster validity scores often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-30 Luzie Helfmann , Johannes von Lindheim , Mattes Mollenhauer , Ralf Banisch

We study the problem of applying spectral clustering to cluster multi-scale data, which is data whose clusters are of various sizes and densities. Traditional spectral clustering techniques discover clusters by processing a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xiang Li , Ben Kao , Caihua Shan , Dawei Yin , Martin Ester

Deep clustering as an important branch of unsupervised representation learning focuses on embedding semantically similar samples into the identical feature space. This core demand inspires the exploration of contrastive learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haifeng Xia , Hai Huang , Zhengming Ding

In this paper a variant of the classical hierarchical cluster analysis is reported. This agglomerative (bottom-up) cluster technique is referred to as the Adaptive Mean-Linkage Algorithm. It can be interpreted as a linkage algorithm where…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-10 H. M. de Oliveira

Convex clustering is a recent stable alternative to hierarchical clustering. It formulates the recovery of progressively coalescing clusters as a regularized convex problem. While convex clustering was originally designed for handling…

Applications · Statistics 2019-12-12 Claire Donnat , Susan Holmes