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Efficient extraction of useful knowledge from these data is still a challenge, mainly when the data is distributed, heterogeneous and of different quality depending on its corresponding local infrastructure. To reduce the overhead cost,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

We present a scalable approach for range and $k$ nearest neighbor queries under computationally expensive metrics, like the continuous Fr\'echet distance on trajectory data. Based on clustering for metric indexes, we obtain a dynamic tree…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , John Pfeifer , Martin P. Seybold

In this paper, we study the $\alpha$-cluster tree ($\alpha$-tree) under both singular and nonsingular measures. The $\alpha$-tree uses probability contents within a level set to construct a cluster tree so that it is well-defined for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Yen-Chi Chen

We present a set of parallel algorithms for computing exact k-nearest neighbors in low dimensions. Many k-nearest neighbor algorithms use either a kd-tree or the Morton ordering of the point set; our algorithms combine these approaches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Magdalen Dobson , Guy Blelloch

Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM, k-Medoids) is a popular clustering technique to use with arbitrary distance functions or similarities, where each cluster is represented by its most central object, called the medoid or the discrete median.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Lars Lenssen , Erich Schubert

A recent proposal of data dependent similarity called Isolation Kernel/Similarity has enabled SVM to produce better classification accuracy. We identify shortcomings of using a tree method to implement Isolation Similarity; and propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xiaoyu Qin , Kai Ming Ting , Ye Zhu , Vincent CS Lee

Center-based clustering is a fundamental primitive for data analysis and becomes very challenging for large datasets. In this paper, we focus on the popular $k$-center variant which, given a set $S$ of points from some metric space and a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

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

In this paper we target the class of modal clustering methods where clusters are defined in terms of the local modes of the probability density function which generates the data. The most well-known modal clustering method is the k-means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Gaël Beck , Tarn Duong , Mustapha Lebbah , Hanane Azzag , Christophe Cérin

Coresets have become an invaluable tool for solving $k$-means and kernel $k$-means clustering problems on large datasets with small numbers of clusters. On the other hand, spectral clustering works well on sparse graphs and has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ben Jourdan , Gregory Schwartzman , Peter Macgregor , He Sun

In this work, the possibility of clustering correlated random variables was examined, both because of their mutual similarity and because of their similarity to the principal components. The k-means algorithm and spectral algorithms were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Zenon Gniazdowski , Dawid Kaliszewski

Nearest-neighbor search dominates the asymptotic complexity of sampling-based motion planning algorithms and is often addressed with k-d tree data structures. While it is generally believed that the expected complexity of nearest-neighbor…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Valerio Varricchio , Brian Paden , Dmitry Yershov , Emilio Frazzoli

Spectral clustering has become a popular technique due to its high performance in many contexts. It comprises three main steps: create a similarity graph between N objects to cluster, compute the first k eigenvectors of its Laplacian matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Nicolas Tremblay , Gilles Puy , Remi Gribonval , Pierre Vandergheynst

Ensuring fairness in machine learning algorithms is a challenging and essential task. We consider the problem of clustering a set of points while satisfying fairness constraints. While there have been several attempts to capture group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Debajyoti Kar , Mert Kosan , Debmalya Mandal , Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Palash Dey , Swagato Sanyal

Trajectory clustering enables the discovery of common patterns in trajectory data. Current methods of trajectory clustering rely on a distance measure between two points in order to measure the dissimilarity between two trajectories. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zi Jing Wang , Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting

In sensor networks, it is not always practical to set up a fusion center. Therefore, there is need for fully decentralized clustering algorithms. Decentralized clustering algorithms should minimize the amount of data exchanged between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-13 Elsa Dupraz , Dominique Pastor , François-Xavier Socheleau

Scaling clustering algorithms to massive data sets is a challenging task. Recently, several successful approaches based on data summarization methods, such as coresets and sketches, were proposed. While these techniques provide provably…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Silvio Lattanzi

In this work, we propose to use a local clustering approach based on the sparse solution technique to study the medical image, especially the lung cancer image classification task. We view images as the vertices in a weighted graph and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jackson Hamel , Ming-Jun Lai , Zhaiming Shen , Ye Tian

This paper presents a comparative analysis of different optimization techniques for the K-means algorithm in the context of big data. K-means is a widely used clustering algorithm, but it can suffer from scalability issues when dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ravil Mussabayev , Rustam Mussabayev

In this paper, we revisit the problem of indexing multi-dimensional data in memory for the efficient support of multi-dimensional range queries and nearest neighbor queries. This is a classic problem in main-memory databases, where there is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Achilleas Michalopoulos , Dimitrios Tsitsigkos , Nikos Mamoulis