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Clustering aims to form groups of similar data points in an unsupervised regime. Yet, clustering complex datasets containing critically intertwined shapes poses significant challenges. The prevailing clustering algorithms widely depend on…

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We develop a hybrid type of quantum annealing in which we control temperature and quantum field simultaneously. We study the efficiency of proposed quantum annealing and find a good schedule of changing thermal fluctuation and quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-19 Shu Tanaka , Ryo Tamura , Issei Sato , Kenichi Kurihara

Alpha clustering in nuclei is considered with the quartet model (QM) where four valence nucleons (the quartet) move on the top of the core (daughter) nucleus. In the QM approach, it is assumed that the intrinsic wave function of the quartet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Dong Bai , Zhongzhou Ren , Gerd Röpke

Quantum entanglement has long been recognized as an important resource for quantum sensing. In this work, we demonstrate the use of multiple-quantum solid-state NMR for quantum sensing by creating, manipulating, and detecting large clusters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Conan Alexander , T S Mahesh

A cluster state cannot be a unique ground state of a two-body interacting Hamiltonian. Here, we propose the creation of a cluster state of logical qubits encoded in spin-1/2 particles by adiabatically weakening two-body interactions. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Thi Ha Kyaw , Ying Li , Leong Chuan Kwek

Spectral clustering is a fast and popular algorithm for finding clusters in networks. Recently, Chaudhuri et al. (2012) and Amini et al.(2012) proposed inspired variations on the algorithm that artificially inflate the node degrees for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-18 Tai Qin , Karl Rohe

The primary goal in cluster analysis is to discover natural groupings of objects. The field of cluster analysis is crowded with diverse methods that make special assumptions about data and address different scientific aims. Despite its…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-07 Gary K. Chen , Eric Chi , John Ranola , Kenneth Lange

Quantum walks on networks are a paradigmatic model in quantum information theory. Quantum-walk algorithms have been developed for various applications, including spatial-search problems, element-distinctness problems, and node centrality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Lucas Böttcher , Mason A. Porter

We introduce a novel criterion in clustering that seeks clusters with limited range of values associated with each cluster's elements. In clustering or classification the objective is to partition a set of objects into subsets, called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Dorit S. Hochbaum

We study the problem of clustering sequences of unlabeled point sets taken from a common metric space. Such scenarios arise naturally in applications where a system or process is observed in distinct time intervals, such as biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tamal K. Dey , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

We study the low energy states of finite spin chains with isotropic (Heisenberg) and anisotropic (XY and Ising-like) exchange interaction with uniform and non-uniform coupling constants. We show that for an odd number of sites a spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Florian Meier , Jeremy Levy , Daniel Loss

In this paper we propose a unified framework to simultaneously discover the number of clusters and group the data points into them using subspace clustering. Real data distributed in a high-dimensional space can be disentangled into a union…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Jie Liang , Jufeng Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Paul L. Rosin , Liang Wang

Inference in clustering is paramount to uncovering inherent group structure in data. Clustering methods which assess statistical significance have recently drawn attention owing to their importance for the identification of patterns in high…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-18 Debora Zava Bello , Marcio Valk , Gabriela Bettella Cybis

Blockchain transaction data is inherently high dimensional, noisy, and entangled, posing substantial challenges for traditional clustering algorithms. While quantum enhanced clustering models have demonstrated promising performance gains,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Yun-Cheng Tsai , Yen-Ku Liu , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

Jet clustering or reconstruction is a crucial component at high energy colliders, a procedure to identify sprays of collimated particles originating from the fragmentation and hadronization of quarks and gluons. It is a complicated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Hideki Okawa , Xian-Zhe Tao , Qing-Guo Zeng , Man-Hong Yung

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tasks in machine learning, and the k-means clustering algorithm is perhaps one of the most widely used clustering algorithms. However, it suffers from several limitations, such as sensitivity to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Syed M. Abdullah , Alisha Baba , Muhammad Siddique , Muhammad Faryad

Motivated by the fact that distances between data points in many real-world clustering instances are often based on heuristic measures, Bilu and Linial~\cite{BL} proposed analyzing objective based clustering problems under the assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Maria Florina Balcan , Yingyu Liang

Quantum networks are natural scenarios for the communication of information among distributed parties, and the arena of promising schemes for distributed quantum computation. Measurement-based quantum computing is a prominent example of how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Mario Arnolfo Ciampini , Paolo Mataloni , Mauro Paternostro

This paper presents a novel clustering concept that is based on jointly learned nonlinear transforms (NTs) with priors on the information loss and the discrimination. We introduce a clustering principle that is based on evaluation of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Dimche Kostadinov , Behrooz Razeghi , Taras Holotyak , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Clustering is a popular unsupervised learning tool often used to discover groups within a larger population such as customer segments, or patient subtypes. However, despite its use as a tool for subgroup discovery and description - few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Connor Lawless , Jayant Kalagnanam , Lam M. Nguyen , Dzung Phan , Chandra Reddy