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The high dimensionality of hyperspectral images often results in the degradation of clustering performance. Due to the powerful ability of deep feature extraction and non-linear feature representation, the clustering algorithm based on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jinguang Sun , Wanli Wang , Xian Wei , Li Fang , Xiaoliang Tang , Yusheng Xu , Hui Yu , Wei Yao

Hierarchical forecasting is a key problem in many practical multivariate forecasting applications - the goal is to simultaneously predict a large number of correlated time series that are arranged in a pre-specified aggregation hierarchy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Biswajit Paria , Rajat Sen , Amr Ahmed , Abhimanyu Das

While there has been much interest in adapting conventional clustering procedures---and in higher dimensions, persistent homology methods---to directed networks, little is known about the convergence of such methods. In order to even…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Samir Chowdhury , Facundo Mémoli

Cosmological simulations of structure formation predict that galaxies are dramatically modified by galaxy harassment during the assembly of galaxy clusters, losing a substantial fraction of their stellar mass which today must be in the form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Magda Arnaboldi

Hierarchical clustering is a stronger extension of one of today's most influential unsupervised learning methods: clustering. The goal of this method is to create a hierarchy of clusters, thus constructing cluster evolutionary history and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-14 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Marina Knittel

We face a need of discovering a pattern in locations of a great number of points in a high-dimensional space. Goal is to group the close points together. We are interested in a hierarchical structure, like a B-tree. B-Trees are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Victor Sadikov , Oliver Rutishauser

Functional data clustering is to identify heterogeneous morphological patterns in the continuous functions underlying the discrete measurements/observations. Application of functional data clustering has appeared in many publications across…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-04 Mimi Zhang , Andrew Parnell

Scientific knowledge is growing rapidly, making it difficult to track progress and high-level conceptual links across broad disciplines. While tools like citation networks and search engines help retrieve related papers, they lack the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Muhan Gao , Jash Shah , Weiqi Wang , Kuan-Hao Huang , Daniel Khashabi

Spectral clustering is a celebrated algorithm that partitions objects based on pairwise similarity information. While this approach has been successfully applied to a variety of domains, it comes with limitations. The reason is that there…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Kwangjun Ahn , Kangwook Lee , Changho Suh

Classification is a popular task in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it happens when outputs are categorical variables. There are a wide variety of models that attempts to draw some conclusions from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi

Object Cluster Hierarchies is a new variant of Hierarchical Cluster Analysis that gains interest in the field of Machine Learning. Being still at an early stage of development, the lack of tools for systematic analysis of Object Cluster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Łukasz P. Olech , Michał Spytkowski , Halina Kwaśnicka , Zbigniew Michalewicz

According to the hierarchical clustering scenario, galaxies like the Milky Way form hierarchically, and many supporting evidences have been found in the Galactic halo. However, most stars in the Milky Way are disk stars. Disk stars have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Yu-Fu Shen , Zhuohan Li

Recent surveys of star forming regions have shown that most stars, and probably all massive stars, are born in dense stellar clusters. The mechanism by which a molecular cloud fragments to form several hundred to thousands of individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ian A. Bonnell , Matthew R. Bate , Stephen G. Vine

Clustering aims to group unlabelled samples based on their similarities. It has become a significant tool for the analysis of high-dimensional data. However, most of the clustering methods merely generate pseudo labels and thus are unable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tianyi Huang , Shenghui Cheng , Stan Z. Li , Zhengjun Zhang

We build upon Ordering Points To Identify Clustering Structure (OPTICS), a hierarchical clustering algorithm well-known to be a robust data-miner, in order to produce Halo-OPTICS, an algorithm designed for the automatic detection and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 William H. Oliver , Pascal J. Elahi , Geraint F. Lewis , Chris Power

The focus of this paper is on the evaluation of sixteen labeling methods for hierarchical document clusters over five datasets. All of the methods are independent from clustering algorithms, applied subsequently to the dendrogram…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Maria Fernanda Moura , Fabiano Fernandes dos Santos , Solange Oliveira Rezende

Hierarchical structure is ubiquitous in data across many domains. There are many hierarchical clustering methods, frequently used by domain experts, which strive to discover this structure. However, most of these methods limit discoverable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Charles Blundell , Yee Whye Teh , Katherine A. Heller

We present a new way to summarize and select mixture models via the hierarchical clustering tree (dendrogram) constructed from an overfitted latent mixing measure. Our proposed method bridges agglomerative hierarchical clustering and…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-11 Dat Do , Linh Do , Scott A. McKinley , Jonathan Terhorst , XuanLong Nguyen

Clusters of galaxies are used in a variety of ways to do cosmology. Some of them are presented here. Their X-ray emitting gas allows us to determine the baryon fraction, dark matter distribution and the matter density $\Omega_{m}$ of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Africa Castillo-Morales , Sabine Schindler

Clustering aims to group unlabeled objects based on similarity inherent among them into clusters. It is important for many tasks such as anomaly detection, database sharding, record linkage, and others. Some clustering methods are taken as…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Binbin Gu , Saeed Kargar , Faisal Nawab