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Clustering data is a popular feature in the field of unsupervised machine learning. Most algorithms aim to find the best method to extract consistent clusters of data, but very few of them intend to cluster data that share the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jean-Sébastien Dessureault , Daniel Massicotte

This paper presents two novel deterministic initialization procedures for K-means clustering based on a modified crowding distance. The procedures, named CKmeans and FCKmeans, use more crowded points as initial centroids. Experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Abdesslem Layeb

We propose a novel clustering model encompassing two well-known clustering models: k-center clustering and k-median clustering. In the Hybrid k-Clusetring problem, given a set P of points in R^d, an integer k, and a non-negative real r, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

Clustering is a classic topic in optimization with $k$-means being one of the most fundamental such problems. In the absence of any restrictions on the input, the best known algorithm for $k$-means with a provable guarantee is a simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Sara Ahmadian , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Justin Ward

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

Center-based clustering has attracted significant research interest from both theory and practice. In many practical applications, input data often contain background knowledge that can be used to improve clustering results. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Longkun Guo , Chaoqi Jia , Kewen Liao , Zhigang Lu , Minhui Xue

k-medoids algorithm is a partitional, centroid-based clustering algorithm which uses pairwise distances of data points and tries to directly decompose the dataset with $n$ points into a set of $k$ disjoint clusters. However, k-medoids…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Amin Aghaee , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Due to the progressive growth of the amount of data available in a wide variety of scientific fields, it has become more difficult to ma- nipulate and analyze such information. Even though datasets have grown in size, the K-means algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-11 Marco Capó , Aritz Pérez , José Antonio Lozano

The learning of mixture models can be viewed as a clustering problem. Indeed, given data samples independently generated from a mixture of distributions, we often would like to find the {\it correct target clustering} of the samples…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-26 Zhaoqiang Liu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

The aim of the k-means is to minimize squared sum of Euclidean distance from the mean (SSEDM) of each cluster. The k-means can effectively optimize this function, but it is too sensitive for initial centers (seeds). This paper proposed a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Hassan Ismkhan

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

Application of K-Means algorithm is restricted by the fact that the number of clusters should be known beforehand. Previously suggested methods to solve this problem are either ad hoc or require parametric assumptions and complicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Sukavanan Nanjundan , Shreeviknesh Sankaran , C. R. Arjun , G. Paavai Anand

Although numerous clustering algorithms have been developed, many existing methods still leverage k-means technique to detect clusters of data points. However, the performance of k-means heavily depends on the estimation of centers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Quanxue Gao , Qianqian Wang , Han Lu , Wei Xia , Xinbo Gao

K-Means clustering algorithm is one of the most commonly used clustering algorithms because of its simplicity and efficiency. K-Means clustering algorithm based on Euclidean distance only pays attention to the linear distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yiqun Zhang , Houbiao Li

In this paper, the decades-old clustering method k-means is revisited. The original distortion minimization model of k-means is addressed by a pure stochastic minimization procedure. In each step of the iteration, one sample is tentatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Wan-Lei Zhao , Run-Qing Chen , Hui Ye , Chong-Wah Ngo

Comparison of three kind of the clustering and find cost function and loss function and calculate them. Error rate of the clustering methods and how to calculate the error percentage always be one on the important factor for evaluating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Kamran Kowsari

This paper presents a practical global optimization algorithm for the K-center clustering problem, which aims to select K samples as the cluster centers to minimize the maximum within-cluster distance. This algorithm is based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Jiayang Ren , Ningning You , Kaixun Hua , Chaojie Ji , Yankai Cao

Data clustering is a process of arranging similar data into groups. A clustering algorithm partitions a data set into several groups such that the similarity within a group is better than among groups. In this paper a hybrid clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-25 Ravindra Jain

When designing clustering algorithms, the choice of initial centers is crucial for the quality of the learned clusters. In this paper, we develop a new initialization scheme, called HST initialization, for the $k$-median problem in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li , Xiaoyun Li

In this work, two new initialization methods for K-means clustering are proposed. Both proposals are based on applying a divide-and-conquer approach for the K-means|| type of an initialization strategy. The second proposal also utilizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Joonas Hämäläinen , Tommi Kärkkäinen , Tuomo Rossi