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In complex inferential tasks like question answering, machine learning models must confront two challenges: the need to implement a compositional reasoning process, and, in many applications, the need for this reasoning process to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ronghang Hu , Jacob Andreas , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

As data sets continue to grow in size and complexity, effective and efficient techniques are needed to target important features in the variable space. Many of the variable selection techniques that are commonly used alongside clustering…

Computation · Statistics 2013-03-22 Jeffrey L. Andrews , Paul D. McNicholas

Cross-manifold clustering is a hard topic and many traditional clustering methods fail because of the cross-manifold structures. In this paper, we propose a Multiple Flat Projections Clustering (MFPC) to deal with cross-manifold clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Lan Bai , Yuan-Hai Shao , Wei-Jie Chen , Zhen Wang , Nai-Yang Deng

Graph-based clustering methods have demonstrated the effectiveness in various applications. Generally, existing graph-based clustering methods first construct a graph to represent the input data and then partition it to generate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong

Clustering is one of the most fundamental and wide-spread techniques in exploratory data analysis. Yet, the basic approach to clustering has not really changed: a practitioner hand-picks a task-specific clustering loss to optimize and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yibo Jiang , Nakul Verma

Cluster analysis is the distribution of objects into different groups or more precisely the partitioning of a data set into subsets (clusters) so that the data in subsets share some common trait according to some distance measure. Unlike…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 Tuli De , Didier Fraix-Burnet , Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay

In this work we present a clustering technique called \textit{multi-level conformal clustering (MLCC)}. The technique is hierarchical in nature because it can be performed at multiple significance levels which yields greater insight into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-25 Ilia Nouretdinov , James Gammerman , Matteo Fontana , Daljit Rehal

In this work, we develop an adaptive, multivariate partitioning algorithm for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLP) with multi-linear terms to global optimality. This iterative algorithm primarily exploits the advantages of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Harsha Nagarajan , Mowen Lu , Site Wang , Russell Bent , Kaarthik Sundar

Clustering short text is a difficult problem, due to the low word co-occurrence between short text documents. This work shows that large language models (LLMs) can overcome the limitations of traditional clustering approaches by generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Justin K. Miller , Tristram J. Alexander

Understanding the functional roles of financial institutions within interconnected markets is critical for effective supervision, systemic risk assessment, and resolution planning. We propose an interpretable role-based clustering approach…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Christian Franssen , Iman van Lelyveld , Bernd Heidergott

We present a deep machine learning (ML) approach to constraining cosmological parameters with multi-wavelength observations of galaxy clusters. The ML approach has two components: an encoder that builds a compressed representation of each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Michelle Ntampaka , Alexey Vikhlinin

When faced with new data, we often conduct a cluster analysis to obtain a better understanding of the data's structure and the archetypical samples present in the data. This process often includes visualization of the data, either as a way…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-06 Justin Lin , Julia Fukuyama

Text Clustering is a text mining technique which divides the given set of text documents into significant clusters. It is used for organizing a huge number of text documents into a well-organized form. In the majority of the clustering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-12 G. Hannah Grace , Kalyani Desikan

Cluster analysis methods are used to identify homogeneous subgroups in a data set. In biomedical applications, one frequently applies cluster analysis in order to identify biologically interesting subgroups. In particular, one may wish to…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-23 Sheila Gaynor , Eric Bair

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

A new strategy is proposed for building easy to interpret predictive models in the context of a high-dimensional dataset, with a large number of highly correlated explanatory variables. The strategy is based on a first step of variables…

Applications · Statistics 2023-07-14 Evelyne Vigneau

New technologies have led to vast troves of large and complex datasets across many scientific domains and industries. People routinely use machine learning techniques to not only process, visualize, and make predictions from this big data,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-04 Genevera I. Allen , Luqin Gan , Lili Zheng

Hierarchical clustering is an important technique to organize big data for exploratory data analysis. However, existing one-size-fits-all hierarchical clustering methods often fail to meet the diverse needs of different users. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Weikai Yang , Xiting Wang , Jie Lu , Wenwen Dou , Shixia Liu

We present Clusterplot, a multi-class high-dimensional data visualization tool designed to visualize cluster-level information offering an intuitive understanding of the cluster inter-relations. Our unique plots leverage 2D blobs devised to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Or Malkai , Min Lu , Daniel Cohen-Or

Multiple datasets containing different types of features may be available for a given task. For instance, users' profiles can be used to group users for recommendation systems. In addition, a model can also use users' historical behaviors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Weixiang Shao , Xiaoxiao Shi , Philip S. Yu