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Clustering is a common technique for statistical data analysis, which is used in many fields, including machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis and bioinformatics. Clustering is the process of grouping similar…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 T. Soni Madhulatha

We address the problem of un-supervised soft-clustering called micro-clustering. The aim of the problem is to enumerate all groups composed of records strongly related to each other, while standard clustering methods separate records at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Takeaki Uno , Hiroki Maegawa , Takanobu Nakahara , Yukinobu Hamuro , Ryo Yoshinaka , Makoto Tatsuta

Clustering has many important applications in computer science, but real-world datasets often contain outliers. Moreover, the presence of outliers can make the clustering problems to be much more challenging. To reduce the complexities,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Hu Ding , Jiawei Huang , Haikuo Yu

Clustering plays a crucial role in computer science, facilitating data analysis and problem-solving across numerous fields. By partitioning large datasets into meaningful groups, clustering reveals hidden structures and relationships within…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Aryan Esmailpour , Stavros Sintos

Over the last three decades, researchers have intensively explored various clustering tools for categorical data analysis. Despite the proposal of various clustering algorithms, the classical k-modes algorithm remains a popular choice for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Surya Teja Gavva , Karthik C. S. , Sharath Punna

The goal of this paper is to propose and analyze a differentially private randomized mechanism for the $K$-means query. The goal is to ensure that the information received about the cluster-centroids is differentially private. The method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Nikhil Ravi , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert

We consider the binary classification problem in a setup that preserves the privacy of the original sample. We provide a privacy mechanism that is locally differentially private and then construct a classifier based on the private sample…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Thomas Berrett , Cristina Butucea

Federated learning is a technique that enables the use of distributed datasets for machine learning purposes without requiring data to be pooled, thereby better preserving privacy and ownership of the data. While supervised FL research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Swier Garst , Marcel Reinders

Clustering is a widely used and powerful machine learning technique, but its effectiveness is often limited by the need to specify the number of clusters, k, or by relying on thresholds that implicitly determine k. We introduce k*-means, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Louis Mahon , Mirella Lapata

We study hierarchical clusterings of metric spaces that change over time. This is a natural geometric primitive for the analysis of dynamic data sets. Specifically, we introduce and study the problem of finding a temporally coherent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Tamal K. Dey , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

In machine learning, correlation clustering is an important problem whose goal is to partition the individuals into groups that correlate with their pairwise similarities as much as possible. In this work, we revisit the correlation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Daogao Liu

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

Clustering is considered a non-supervised learning setting, in which the goal is to partition a collection of data points into disjoint clusters. Often a bound $k$ on the number of clusters is given or assumed by the practitioner. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Nir Ailon , Ron Begleiter

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tools in the artificial intelligence area, particularly in the pattern recognition and learning theory. In this paper, we propose a simple, but novel approach for variance-based k-clustering tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yicheng Xu , Vincent Chau , Chenchen Wu , Yong Zhang , Vassilis Zissimopoulos , Yifei Zou

The area of constrained clustering has been extensively explored by researchers and used by practitioners. Constrained clustering formulations exist for popular algorithms such as k-means, mixture models, and spectral clustering but have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hongjing Zhang , Tianyang Zhan , Sugato Basu , Ian Davidson

Deep clustering has the potential to learn a strong representation and hence better clustering performance compared to traditional clustering methods such as $k$-means and spectral clustering. However, this strong representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hongjing Zhang , Ian Davidson

Ensuring differential privacy of models learned from sensitive user data is an important goal that has been studied extensively in recent years. It is now known that for some basic learning problems, especially those involving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Cynthia Dwork , Vitaly Feldman

The clustering of categorical data is a common and important task in computer science, offering profound implications across a spectrum of applications. Unlike purely numerical data, categorical data often lack inherent ordering as in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tai Dinh , Wong Hauchi , Philippe Fournier-Viger , Daniil Lisik , Minh-Quyet Ha , Hieu-Chi Dam , Van-Nam Huynh

Unsupervised clustering is one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning. A popular hypothesis is that data are generated from a union of low-dimensional nonlinear manifolds; thus an approach to clustering is identifying and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Dejiao Zhang , Yifan Sun , Brian Eriksson , Laura Balzano

We consider the problem of data clustering with unidentified feature quality and when a small amount of labelled data is provided. An unsupervised sparse clustering method can be employed in order to detect the subgroup of features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Avgoustinos Vouros , Eleni Vasilaki