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The Nystrom method has been popular for generating the low-rank approximation of kernel matrices that arise in many machine learning problems. The approximation quality of the Nystrom method depends crucially on the number of selected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-21 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki , Stephen Becker

Clustering is essential in data analysis and machine learning, but traditional algorithms like $k$-means and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) often fail with nonconvex clusters. To address the challenge, we introduce the Flexible Bivariate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yung-Peng Hsu , Hung-Hsuan Chen

Modeling of high-dimensional data is very important to categorize different classes. We develop a new mixture model called Multinomial cluster-weighted model (MCWM). We derive the identifiability of a general class of MCWM. We estimate the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-25 Kehinde Olobatuyi , Oludare Ariyo

Clustering and estimating cluster means are core problems in statistics and machine learning, with k-means and Expectation Maximization (EM) being two widely used algorithms. In this work, we provide a theoretical explanation for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-19 David Silva-Sánchez , Roy R. Lederman

Algorithms for clustering points in metric spaces is a long-studied area of research. Clustering has seen a multitude of work both theoretically, in understanding the approximation guarantees possible for many objective functions such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Maria-Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Colin White

The challenge of clustering short text data lies in balancing informativeness with interpretability. Traditional evaluation metrics often overlook this trade-off. Inspired by linguistic principles of communicative efficiency, this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Justin Miller , Tristram Alexander

This paper represents a preliminary (pre-reviewing) version of a sublinear variational algorithm for isotropic Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). Further developments of the algorithm for GMMs with diagonal covariance matrices (instead of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-22 Florian Hirschberger , Dennis Forster , Jörg Lücke

Research on cluster analysis for categorical data continues to develop, with new clustering algorithms being proposed. However, in this context, the determination of the number of clusters is rarely addressed. In this paper, we propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-29 Cláudia Silvestre , Margarida G. M. S. Cardoso , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

The Latent Block Model (LBM) is a prominent model-based co-clustering method, returning parametric representations of each block cluster and allowing the use of well-grounded model selection methods. The LBM, while adapted in literature to…

Subspace clustering refers to the problem of segmenting a set of data points approximately drawn from a union of multiple linear subspaces. Aiming at the subspace clustering problem, various subspace clustering algorithms have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Yu Song , Yiquan Wu

Partially recorded data are frequently encountered in many applications and usually clustered by first removing incomplete cases or features with missing values, or by imputing missing values, followed by application of a clustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-20 Emily M. Goren , Ranjan Maitra

We develop novel clustering algorithms for functional data when the number of clusters $K$ is unknown and also when it is prefixed. These algorithms are developed based on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) measure between two sets of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-16 Sourav Chakrabarty , Anirvan Chakraborty , Shyamal K. De

Clustering is a fundamental tool in statistical machine learning in the presence of heterogeneous data. Most recent results focus primarily on optimal mislabeling guarantees when data are distributed around centroids with sub-Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Soham Jana , Jianqing Fan , Sanjeev Kulkarni

Clustering mixed data presents numerous challenges inherent to the very heterogeneous nature of the variables. A clustering algorithm should be able, despite of this heterogeneity, to extract discriminant pieces of information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Robin Fuchs , Denys Pommeret , Cinzia Viroli

In many statistical linear inverse problems, one needs to recover classes of similar curves from their noisy images under an operator that does not have a bounded inverse. Problems of this kind appear in many areas of application.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Rasika Rajapakshage , Marianna Pensky

Model-based clustering is widely used for identifying and distinguishing types of diseases. However, modern biomedical data coming with high dimensions make it challenging to perform the model estimation in traditional cluster analysis. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-22 Kazeem Kareem , Fan Dai

Large-scale multi-layer networks with large numbers of nodes, edges, and layers arise across various domains, which poses a great computational challenge for the downstream analysis. In this paper, we develop an efficient randomized…

Computation · Statistics 2025-01-10 Wenqing Su , Xiao Guo , Xiangyu Chang , Ying Yang

Low-rank representation~(LRR) has been a significant method for segmenting data that are generated from a union of subspaces. It is, however, known that solving the LRR program is challenging in terms of time complexity and memory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Jie Shen , Ping Li , Huan Xu

As the data size in Machine Learning fields grows exponentially, it is inevitable to accelerate the computation by utilizing the ever-growing large number of available cores provided by high-performance computing hardware. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kun Li , Liang Yuan , Yunquan Zhang , Gongwei Chen

The objective of clustering is to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify geometrical structures which might reside there, without assuming any prior knowledge on the characteristics of the data. The problem can be seen as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Luis-Evaristo Caraballo , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher