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Clustering traditionally aims to reveal a natural grouping structure within unlabeled data. However, this structure may not always align with users' preferences. In this paper, we propose a personalized clustering method that explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiwen Geng , Suyun Zhao , Yixin Yu , Borui Peng , Pan Du , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li , Mengdie Wang

Clustering is a widely used unsupervised learning method for finding structure in the data. However, the resulting clusters are typically presented without any guarantees on their robustness; slightly changing the used data sample or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-02 Andreas Henelius , Kai Puolamäki , Henrik Boström , Panagiotis Papapetrou

Center-based clustering (e.g., $k$-means, $k$-medians) and clustering using linear subspaces are two most popular techniques to partition real-world data into smaller clusters. However, when the data consists of sensitive demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Sruthi Gorantla , Kishen N. Gowda , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

We introduce a new method for performing clustering with the aim of fitting clusters with different scatters and weights. It is designed by allowing to handle a proportion $\alpha$ of contaminating data to guarantee the robustness of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Luis A. García-Escudero , Alfonso Gordaliza , Carlos Matrán , Agustin Mayo-Iscar

The task of clustering a set of objects based on multiple sources of data arises in several modern applications. We propose an integrative statistical model that permits a separate clustering of the objects for each data source. These…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-01 Eric F. Lock , David B. Dunson

We study the fundamental problems of identity testing (goodness of fit), and closeness testing (two sample test) of distributions over $k$ elements, under differential privacy. While the problems have a long history in statistics, finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jayadev Acharya , Ziteng Sun , Huanyu Zhang

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-06 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

We present a new algorithm for clustering longitudinal data. Data of this type can be conceptualized as consisting of individuals and, for each such individual, observations of a time-dependent variable made at various times. Generically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Marie-Pierre Sylvestre , Laurence Boulanger

We investigate the problems of identity and closeness testing over a discrete population from random samples. Our goal is to develop efficient testers while guaranteeing Differential Privacy to the individuals of the population. We describe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Ilias Diakonikolas , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental unsupervised machine learning task with the aim of organizing data into a hierarchy of clusters. Many applications of hierarchical clustering involve sensitive user information, therefore motivating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Jalaj Upadhyay , Chen Wang , Samson Zhou

We propose a novel approach to the problem of multilevel clustering, which aims to simultaneously partition data in each group and discover grouping patterns among groups in a potentially large hierarchically structured corpus of data. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-26 Viet Huynh , Nhat Ho , Nhan Dam , XuanLong Nguyen , Mikhail Yurochkin , Hung Bui , and Dinh Phung

The problem of complex data analysis is a central topic of modern statistical science and learning systems and is becoming of broader interest with the increasing prevalence of high-dimensional data. The challenge is to develop statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-05 Faicel Chamroukhi , Hien D. Nguyen

In this paper, we propose a methodology to improvise the technique of deep transfer clustering (DTC) when applied to the less variant data distribution. Clustering can be considered as the most important unsupervised learning problem. A…

Clustering has been a major research topic in the field of machine learning, one to which Deep Learning has recently been applied with significant success. However, an aspect of clustering that is not addressed by existing deep clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

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

Clustering, or grouping, dataset elements based on similarity can be used not only to classify a dataset into a few categories, but also to approximate it by a relatively large number of representative elements. In the latter scenario,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Tim Jaschek , Marko Bucyk , Jaspreet S. Oberoi

Federated learning (FL), which is a decentralized machine learning (ML) approach, often incorporates differential privacy (DP) to provide rigorous data privacy guarantees. Previous works attempted to address high structured data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Saber Malekmohammadi , Afaf Taik , Golnoosh Farnadi

Graph clustering is a fundamental computational problem with a number of applications in algorithm design, machine learning, data mining, and analysis of social networks. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 He Sun , Luca Zanetti

A main task in data analysis is to organize data points into coherent groups or clusters. The stochastic block model is a probabilistic model for the cluster structure. This model prescribes different probabilities for the presence of edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexander Jung

Within the field of process mining, several different trace clustering approaches exist for partitioning traces or process instances into similar groups. Typically, this partitioning is based on certain patterns or similarity between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Pieter De Koninck , Klaas Nelissen , Seppe vanden Broucke , Bart Baesens , Monique Snoeck , Jochen De Weerdt