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Finding a suitable density function is essential for density-based clustering algorithms such as DBSCAN and DPC. A naive density corresponding to the indicator function of a unit $d$-dimensional Euclidean ball is commonly used in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Chao Zheng , Yingjie Chen , Chong Chen , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

Factor analysis has been extensively used to reveal the dependence structures among multivariate variables, offering valuable insight in various fields. However, it cannot incorporate the spatial heterogeneity that is typically present in…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-14 Yanxiu Jin , Tomoya Wakayama , Renhe Jiang , Shonosuke Sugasawa

The discrete distribution is often used to describe complex instances in machine learning, such as images, sequences, and documents. Traditionally, clustering of discrete distributions (D2C) has been approached using Wasserstein barycenter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zixiao Wang , Dong Qiao , Jicong Fan

Clustering methods with dimension reduction have been receiving considerable wide interest in statistics lately and a lot of methods to simultaneously perform clustering and dimension reduction have been proposed. This work presents a novel…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-17 Michio Yamamoto , Kenichi Hayashi

We propose an effective subspace selection scheme as a post-processing step to improve results obtained by sparse subspace clustering (SSC). Our method starts by the computation of stable subspaces using a novel random sampling scheme. Thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Duc-Son Pham , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Svetha Venkatesh

Clustering is a separation of data into groups of similar objects. Every group called cluster consists of objects that are similar to one another and dissimilar to objects of other groups. In this paper, the K-Means algorithm is implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-03 P. Ashok , G. M Kadhar Nawaz , E. Elayaraja , V. Vadivel

Common clustering algorithms require multiple scans of all the data to achieve convergence, and this is prohibitive when large databases, with data arriving in streams, must be processed. Some algorithms to extend the popular K-means method…

Applications · Statistics 2017-12-22 Giacomo Aletti , Alessandra Micheletti

We introduce a repulsive mixture model to cluster observation units represented by multivariate functional data, based on similarity of curve shapes and individual-specific covariates. We propose a repulsive prior distribution for the…

In many statistical modeling problems, such as classification and regression, it is common to encounter sparse and blocky coefficients. Sparse fused Lasso is specifically designed to recover these sparse and blocky structured features,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Xiaofei Wu , Rongmei Liang , Zhimin Zhang , Zhenyu Cui

This paper presents a new clustering algorithm for space-time data based on the concepts of topological data analysis and in particular, persistent homology. Employing persistent homology - a flexible mathematical tool from algebraic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-28 Umar Islambekov , Yulia Gel

Trajectory clustering is an important operation of knowledge discovery from mobility data. Especially nowadays, the need for performing advanced analytic operations over massively produced data, such as mobility traces, in efficient and…

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This paper proposes a new distance metric between clusterings that incorporates information about the spatial distribution of points and clusters. Our approach builds on the idea of a Hilbert space-based representation of clusters as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Parasaran Raman , Jeff M. Phillips , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

The clustering algorithms that view each object data as a single sample drawn from a certain distribution, Gaussian distribution, for example, has been a hot topic for decades. Many clustering algorithms: such as k-means and spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Xiang Wang , Tie Liu

The use of brain images as markers for diseases or behavioral differences is challenged by the small effects size and the ensuing lack of power, an issue that has incited researchers to rely more systematically on large cohorts. Coupled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-17 Bertrand Thirion , Andrés Hoyos-Idrobo , Jonas Kahn , Gael Varoquaux

High-dimensional clustering analysis is a challenging problem in statistics and machine learning, with broad applications such as the analysis of microarray data and RNA-seq data. In this paper, we propose a new clustering procedure called…

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In this paper, we present a deep extension of Sparse Subspace Clustering, termed Deep Sparse Subspace Clustering (DSSC). Regularized by the unit sphere distribution assumption for the learned deep features, DSSC can infer a new data…

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As language models become more general purpose, increased attention needs to be paid to detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) instances, i.e., those not belonging to any of the distributions seen during training. Existing methods for…

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This article presents an empirical validation of the functional multidimensional scaling model, a novel approach that improves the smoothness of time-varying dissimilarities in a low-dimensional space, embedding a modified Adam stochastic…

Applications · Statistics 2025-05-21 Liting Li

Smoothing of noisy sample covariances is an important component in functional data analysis. We propose a novel covariance smoothing method based on penalized splines and associated software. The proposed method is a bivariate spline…

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