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Multitarget tracking (MTT) is a challenging task that aims at estimating the number of targets and their states from measurements of the target states provided by one or multiple sensors. Additional information, such as imperfect estimates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Domenico Gaglione , Giovanni Soldi , Paolo Braca , Giovanni De Magistris , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch

In many practical applications of clustering, the objects to be clustered evolve over time, and a clustering result is desired at each time step. In such applications, evolutionary clustering typically outperforms traditional static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kevin S. Xu , Mark Kliger , Alfred O. Hero

Consensus clustering aggregates partitions in order to find a better fit by reconciling clustering results from different sources/executions. In practice, there exist noise and outliers in clustering task, which, however, may significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Deguang Kong , Miao Lu , Konstantin Shmakov , Jian Yang

In this article, we continue our analysis for a novel recursive modification to the Max $k$-Cut algorithm using semidefinite programming as its basis, offering an improved performance in vectorized data clustering tasks. Using a dimension…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-16 An Ly , Raj Sawhney , Marina Chugunova

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

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

Efficient Nearest Neighbor (NN) search in high-dimensional spaces is a foundation of many multimedia retrieval systems. A common approach is to rely on Product Quantization, which allows the storage of large vector databases in memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Fabien André , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

Neural network-based clustering has recently gained popularity, and in particular a constrained clustering formulation has been proposed to perform transfer learning and image category discovery using deep learning. The core idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zhaoyang Lv , Joel Schlosser , Phillip Odom , Zsolt Kira

The objective of clustering is to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify geometrical structures which might reside there, without assuming any prior knowledge on the characteristics of the data. The problem can be seen as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Luis-Evaristo Caraballo , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher

This paper studies the subspace clustering problem in which data points collected from high-dimensional ambient space lie in a union of linear subspaces. Subspace clustering becomes challenging when the dimension of intersection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Weiwei Li , Mostafa Rahmani , Ping Li

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

Multi-swarm particle optimisation algorithms are gaining popularity due to their ability to locate multiple optimum points concurrently. In this family of algorithms, clustering-based multi-swarm algorithms are among the most effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yves Matanga , Yanxia Sun , Zenghui Wang

Improving the explainability of the results from machine learning methods has become an important research goal. Here, we study the problem of making clusters more interpretable by extending a recent approach of [Davidson et al., NeurIPS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Prathyush Sambaturu , Aparna Gupta , Ian Davidson , S. S. Ravi , Anil Vullikanti , Andrew Warren

In this study, we present a novel ranking model based on learning neighborhood relationships embedded in the index space. Given a query point, conventional approximate nearest neighbor search calculates the distances to the cluster…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Chih-Yi Chiu , Amorntip Prayoonwong , Yin-Chih Liao

We explore the utility of clustering in reducing error in various prediction tasks. Previous work has hinted at the improvement in prediction accuracy attributed to clustering algorithms if used to pre-process the data. In this work we more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Shubhendu Trivedi , Zachary A. Pardos , Neil T. Heffernan

K-Means algorithm is a popular clustering method. However, it has two limitations: 1) it gets stuck easily in spurious local minima, and 2) the number of clusters k has to be given a priori. To solve these two issues, a multi-prototypes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Dong Li , Shuisheng Zhou , Tieyong Zeng , Raymond H. Chan

As a kind of basic machine learning method, clustering algorithms group data points into different categories based on their similarity or distribution. We present a clustering algorithm by finding hyper-planes to distinguish the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Luhong Diao , Jinying Gao1 , Manman Deng

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

The design of deterministic filters can be cast as a problem of minimizing an associated cost function for an optimal control problem. Employing the min-plus linearity property of the dynamic programming operator (associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-28 Srinivas Sridharan

Clustering consists of partitioning data objects into subsets called clusters according to some similarity criteria. This paper addresses a generalization called quasi-clustering that allows overlapping of clusters, and which we link to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Fred Glover , Said Hanafi , Gintaras Palubeckis