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The widely applied k-means algorithm produces clusterings that violate our expectations with respect to high/low similarity/density and is in conflict with Kleinberg's axiomatic system for distance based clustering algorithms that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek

Clustering analysis has received considerable attention in spatial data mining for several years. With the rapid development of the geospatial information technologies, the size of spatial information data is growing exponentially which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Xia Yue , Wang Man , Jun Yue , Guangcao Liu

This paper introduces a novel K-means clustering algorithm, an advancement on the conventional Big-means methodology. The proposed method efficiently integrates parallel processing, stochastic sampling, and competitive optimization to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Rustam Mussabayev , Ravil Mussabayev

K-means is a popular clustering method used in data mining area. To work with large datasets, researchers propose PKMeans, which is a parallel k-means on MapReduce. However, the existing k-means parallelization methods including PKMeans…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Shikai Jin , Yuxuan Cui , Chunli Yu

Centroid-based clustering algorithms, such as hard K-means (HKM) and fuzzy K-means (FKM), have suffered from learning bias towards large clusters. Their centroids tend to be crowded in large clusters, compromising performance when the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yudong He

The paper is focused on the forecasting method for time series groups with the use of algorithms for cluster analysis. $K$-means algorithm is suggested to be a basic one for clustering. The coordinates of the centers of clusters have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-17 N. N. Astakhova , L. A. Demidova , E. V. Nikulchev

K-means clustering is a workhorse of unsupervised learning, but it is notoriously brittle to outliers, distribution shifts, and limited sample sizes. Viewing k-means as Lloyd--Max quantization of the empirical distribution, we develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Vikrant Malik , Taylan Kargin , Babak Hassibi

Clustering is an important tool in data analysis, with K-means being popular for its simplicity and versatility. However, it cannot handle non-linearly separable clusters. Kernel K-means addresses this limitation but requires a large kernel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Julian Bellavita , Matthew Rubino , Nakul Iyer , Andrew Chang , Aditya Devarakonda , Flavio Vella , Giulia Guidi

The invention of the transformer architecture has revolutionized Artificial Intelligence (AI), yielding unprecedented success in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal reasoning. Despite these advances,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Lior Horesh , Takuya Ito , Charlotte Park , Parikshit Ram

We develop and analyze a method to reduce the size of a very large set of data points in a high dimensional Euclidean space R d to a small set of weighted points such that the result of a predetermined data analysis task on the reduced set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Dan Feldman , Melanie Schmidt , Christian Sohler

This paper presents a novel method for clustering surfaces. The proposal involves first using basis functions in a tensor product to smooth the data and thus reduce the dimension to a finite number of coefficients, and then using these…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-04 Adriano Zanin Zambom , Qing Wang , Ronaldo Dias

Over half a century old and showing no signs of aging, k-means remains one of the most popular data processing algorithms. As is well-known, a proper initialization of k-means is crucial for obtaining a good final solution. The recently…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Bahman Bahmani , Benjamin Moseley , Andrea Vattani , Ravi Kumar , Sergei Vassilvitskii

K-means clustering is widely used in psychological and psychometric research to identify profiles, subgroups, and potential typologies, yet its classical formulation does not test whether such groups exist as latent psychological…

K-means is a widely used algorithm in clustering, however, its efficiency is primarily constrained by the computational cost of distance computing. Existing implementations suffer from suboptimal utilization of computational units and lack…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shixun Wu , Yitong Ding , Yujia Zhai , Jinyang Liu , Jiajun Huang , Zizhe Jian , Huangliang Dai , Sheng Di , Bryan M. Wong , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

With the advancement of technology and reduced storage costs, individuals and organizations are tending towards the usage of electronic media for storing textual information and documents. It is time consuming for readers to retrieve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-07-27 Yasir Safeer , Atika Mustafa , Anis Noor Ali

We study (Euclidean) $k$-median and $k$-means with constraints in the streaming model. There have been recent efforts to design unified algorithms to solve constrained $k$-means problems without using knowledge of the specific constraint at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Melanie Schmidt , Julian Wargalla

Deep clustering algorithms combine representation learning and clustering by jointly optimizing a clustering loss and a non-clustering loss. In such methods, a deep neural network is used for representation learning together with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Abien Fred Agarap , Arnulfo P. Azcarraga

Clustering is a fundamental tool in unsupervised learning, used to group objects by distinguishing between similar and dissimilar features of a given data set. One of the most common clustering algorithms is k-means. Unfortunately, when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-17 Olga Dorabiala , J. Nathan Kutz , Aleksandr Aravkin

Center-based clustering techniques are fundamental in some areas of machine learning such as data summarization. Generic $k$-center algorithms can produce biased cluster representatives so there has been a recent interest in fair $k$-center…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jinxiang Gan , Mordecai Golin , Zonghan Yang , Yuhao Zhang

Traditionally, practitioners initialize the {\tt k-means} algorithm with centers chosen uniformly at random. Randomized initialization with uneven weights ({\tt k-means++}) has recently been used to improve the performance over this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-02 Jordan Yoder , Carey E. Priebe