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Clustering algorithms fundamentally group data points by characteristics to identify patterns. Over the past two decades, researchers have extended these methods to analyze trajectories of humans, animals, and vehicles, studying their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Atieh Rahmani , Mansoor Davoodi , Justin M. Calabrese

This paper describes the incremental behaviours of Density based clustering. It specially focuses on the Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm and its incremental approach.DBSCAN relies on a density…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Sanjay Chakraborty , N. K. Nagwani

We consider the problem of clustering functional data according to their covariance structure. We contribute a soft clustering methodology based on the Wasserstein-Procrustes distance, where the in-between cluster variability is penalised…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-29 V. Masarotto , G. Masarotto

Supervised classification can be effective for prediction but sometimes weak on interpretability or explainability (XAI). Clustering, on the other hand, tends to isolate categories or profiles that can be meaningful but there is no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Vincent Lemaire , Oumaima Alaoui Ismaili , Antoine Cornuéjols , Dominique Gay

An efficient method for obtaining low-density hyperplane separators in the unsupervised context is proposed. Low density separators can be used to obtain a partition of a set of data based on their allocations to the different sides of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-10 David P. Hofmeyr

In this paper two novel possibilistic clustering algorithms are presented, which utilize the concept of sparsity. The first one, called sparse possibilistic c-means, exploits sparsity and can deal well with closely located clusters that may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Spyridoula D. Xenaki , Konstantinos D. Koutroumbas , Athanasios A. Rontogiannis

In high-dimension, low-sample size (HDLSS) data, it is not always true that closeness of two objects reflects a hidden cluster structure. We point out the important fact that it is not the closeness, but the "values" of distance that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-30 Yoshikazu Terada

We develop an efficient and robust high-dimensional sparse Fourier algorithm for noisy samples. Earlier in the paper ``Multi-dimensional sublinear sparse Fourier algorithm" (2016), an efficient sparse Fourier algorithm with $\Theta(ds \log…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Bosu Choi , Andrew Christlieb , Yang Wang

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is one of the current state-of-the-art methods for partitioning data points into the union of subspaces, with strong theoretical guarantees. However, it is not practical for large data sets as it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Maryam Abdolali , Nicolas Gillis , Mohammad Rahmati

In real-world application scenarios, the identification of groups poses a significant challenge due to possibly occurring outliers and existing noise variables. Therefore, there is a need for a clustering method which is capable of…

A novel nonparametric clustering algorithm is proposed using the interpoint distances between the members of the data to reveal the inherent clustering structure existing in the given set of data, where we apply the classical nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-02 Soumita Modak

We introduce Lumbermark, a robust divisive clustering algorithm capable of detecting clusters of varying sizes, densities, and shapes. Lumbermark iteratively chops off large limbs connected by protruding segments of a dataset's mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Marek Gagolewski

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

Classical multidimensional scaling is an important dimension reduction technique. Yet few theoretical results characterizing its statistical performance exist. This paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the quality of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Anna Little , Yuying Xie , Qiang Sun

This paper proposes two new distance measures, called functional Ward's linkages, for functional data clustering that are robust against outliers. Conventional Ward's linkage defines the distance between two clusters as the increase in sum…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-22 Tianbo Chen

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 2017-06-14 Nhat Ho , XuanLong Nguyen , Mikhail Yurochkin , Hung Hai Bui , Viet Huynh , Dinh Phung

Clustering algorithms have long been the topic of research, representing the more popular side of unsupervised learning. Since clustering analysis is one of the best ways to find some clarity and structure within raw data, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Naitik Gada

Clustering high-dimensional spatiotemporal data using an unsupervised approach is a challenging problem for many data-driven applications. Existing state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised clustering use different similarity and distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Omar Faruque , Francis Ndikum Nji , Mostafa Cham , Rohan Mandar Salvi , Xue Zheng , Jianwu Wang

Several factors make clustering of functional data challenging, including the infinite-dimensional space to which observations belong and the lack of a defined probability density function for the functional random variable. To overcome…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-03 Andi Mai , Lan Xue , Roger Zoh , Carmen Tekwe

In this work, we focus on the efficiency and scalability of pairwise constraint-based active clustering, crucial for processing large-scale data in applications such as data mining, knowledge annotation, and AI model pre-training. Our goals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Wen-Bo Xie , Xun Fu , Bin Chen , Yan-Li Lee , Tao Deng , Tian Zou , Xin Wang , Zhen Liu , Jaideep Srivastavad