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In this article, the logic rule ensembles approach to supervised learning is applied to the unsupervised or semi-supervised clustering. Logic rules which were obtained by combining simple conjunctive rules are used to partition the input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-11-16 Deniz Akdemir

Clustering algorithms rely on complex optimisation processes that may be difficult to comprehend, especially for individuals who lack technical expertise. While many explainable artificial intelligence techniques exist for supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Aurora Spagnol , Kacper Sokol , Pietro Barbiero , Marc Langheinrich , Martin Gjoreski

In machine learning and data mining, Cluster analysis is one of the most widely used unsupervised learning technique. Philosophy of this algorithm is to find similar data items and group them together based on any distance function in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-09 Kumarjit Pathak , Jitin Kapila

Spectral clustering refers to a family of unsupervised learning algorithms that compute a spectral embedding of the original data based on the eigenvectors of a similarity graph. This non-linear transformation of the data is both the key of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Nicolas Tremblay , Andreas Loukas

Clustering is a usual unsupervised machine learning technique for grouping the data points into groups based upon similar features. We focus here on unsupervised clustering for contaminated data, i.e in the case where K-medians should be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Sobihan Surendran

Clustering is widely used in unsupervised learning to find homogeneous groups of observations within a dataset. However, clustering mixed-type data remains a challenge, as few existing approaches are suited for this task. This study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Badih Ghattas , Alvaro Sanchez San-Benito

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning task that consists of identifying groups of similar objects. It has numerous applications and is increasingly used in fairness-sensitive domains where objects represent individuals, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Claudio Mantuano , Manuel Kammermann , Philipp Baumann

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

Semi-supervised clustering methods incorporate a limited amount of supervision into the clustering process. Typically, this supervision is provided by the user in the form of pairwise constraints. Existing methods use such constraints in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-26 Toon Van Craenendonck , Hendrik Blockeel

Clustering algorithms are an essential part of the unsupervised data science ecosystem, and extrinsic evaluation of clustering algorithms requires a method for comparing the detected clustering to a ground truth clustering. In a general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ryan DeWolfe , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

Data analysis plays an indispensable role for value creation in industry. Cluster analysis in this context is able to explore given datasets with little or no prior knowledge and to identify unknown patterns. As (big) data complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Marc Wegmann , Domenique Zipperling , Jonas Hillenbrand , Jürgen Fleischer

Is all of machine learning supervised to some degree? The field of machine learning has traditionally been categorized pedagogically into $supervised~vs~unsupervised~learning$; where supervised learning has typically referred to learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Stephen G. Odaibo

Clustering is an important part of many modern data analysis pipelines, including network analysis and data retrieval. There are many different clustering algorithms developed by various communities, and it is often not clear which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Maria-Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Manuel Lang

Clustering data objects into homogeneous groups is one of the most important tasks in data mining. Spectral clustering is arguably one of the most important algorithms for clustering, as it is appealing for its theoretical soundness and is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Dylan Soemitro , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Clustering is an unsupervised learning method that constitutes a cornerstone of an intelligent data analysis process. It is used for the exploration of inter-relationships among a collection of patterns, by organizing them into homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-04-13 G. Nathiya , S. C. Punitha , M. Punithavalli

In this paper, we address an issue of finding explainable clusters of class-uniform data in labelled datasets. The issue falls into the domain of interpretable supervised clustering. Unlike traditional clustering, supervised clustering aims…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Natallia Kokash , Leonid Makhnist

Recent developed deep unsupervised methods allow us to jointly learn representation and cluster unlabelled data. These deep clustering methods mainly focus on the correlation among samples, e.g., selecting high precision pairs to gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jianlong Wu , Keyu Long , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Cheng Li , Zhouchen Lin , Hongbin Zha

Cluster analysis is an unsupervised learning strategy that can be employed to identify subgroups of observations in data sets of unknown structure. This strategy is particularly useful for analyzing high-dimensional data such as microarray…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-07 Erika S. Helgeson , Eric Bair

This review summarizes popular unsupervised learning methods, and gives an overview of their past, current, and future uses in astronomy. Unsupervised learning aims to organise the information content of a dataset, in such a way that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Sotiria Fotopoulou

This paper presents a multiple learner algorithm called the 'Three Ensemble Clustering 3EC' algorithm that classifies unlabeled data into quality clusters as a part of unsupervised learning. It offers the flexibility to explore the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Kundu , Debasish