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In the last years many studies examined the consistency of students' answers in a variety of contexts. Some of these papers tried to develop more detailed models of the consistency of students' reasoning, or to subdivide a sample of…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-08-17 Onofrio Rosario Battaglia , Benedetto Di Paola , Claudio Fazio

Information-maximization clustering learns a probabilistic classifier in an unsupervised manner so that mutual information between feature vectors and cluster assignments is maximized. A notable advantage of this approach is that it only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-12-06 Masashi Sugiyama , Makoto Yamada , Manabu Kimura , Hirotaka Hachiya

Clustering is a fundamental task in data science that aims to group data based on their similarities. However, defining similarity is often ambiguous, making it challenging to determine the most appropriate objective function for a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Myeonghwan Seong , Daniel K. Park

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

Clustering is one of the most fundamental and wide-spread techniques in exploratory data analysis. Yet, the basic approach to clustering has not really changed: a practitioner hand-picks a task-specific clustering loss to optimize and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yibo Jiang , Nakul Verma

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning task with applications across a wide range of domains. Popular algorithms such as $k$-means are efficient and widely used, but can be sensitive to outliers, ambiguous boundary points, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Aggelos Semoglou , Aristidis Likas , John Pavlopoulos

Clustering has received much attention in Statistics and Machine learning with the aim of developing statistical models and autonomous algorithms which are capable of acquiring information from raw data in order to perform exploratory…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-26 Victor Muthama Musau , Carlo Gaetan , Paolo Girardi

Comparing clusterings is central to evaluating unsupervised models, yet the many existing similarity measures can produce widely divergent, sometimes contradictory, evaluations. Clustering similarity measures are typically organized into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-06 Alexander J. Gates

Personalization is very powerful in improving the effectiveness of health interventions. Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are suitable for learning these tailored interventions from sequential data collected about individuals.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Ali el Hassouni , Mark Hoogendoorn , Martijn van Otterlo , A. E. Eiben , Vesa Muhonen , Eduardo Barbaro

Keeping in consideration the high demand for clustering, this paper focuses on understanding and implementing K-means clustering using two different similarity measures. We have tried to cluster the documents using two different measures…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Manan Mohan Goyal , Neha Agrawal , Manoj Kumar Sarma , Nayan Jyoti Kalita

Clustering is one of the widely used data mining techniques for medical diagnosis. Clustering can be considered as the most important unsupervised learning technique. Most of the clustering methods group data based on distance and few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-24 K. Dhanalakshmi , H. Hannah Inbarani

This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of prominent clustering algorithms K-means, DBSCAN, and Spectral Clustering on high-dimensional datasets. We introduce a novel evaluation framework that assesses clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Vishnu Vardhan Baligodugula , Fathi Amsaad

Quantum computing is a promising paradigm based on quantum theory for performing fast computations. Quantum algorithms are expected to surpass their classical counterparts in terms of computational complexity for certain tasks, including…

Recently, there has been substantial interest in clustering research that takes a beyond worst-case approach to the analysis of algorithms. The typical idea is to design a clustering algorithm that outputs a near-optimal solution, provided…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Maria-Florina Balcan , Colin White

The use of mobile phones has exploded over the past years,abundantly through the introduction of smartphones and the rapidly expanding use of mobile data. This has resulted in a spiraling problem of ensuring quality of service for users of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Eleni Rozaki

This paper describes a method for clustering data that are spread out over large regions and which dimensions are on different scales of measurement. Such an algorithm was developed to implement a robotics application consisting in sorting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Joris Guérin , Olivier Gibaru , Stéphane Thiery , Eric Nyiri

Measuring similarity between two objects is the core operation in existing clustering algorithms in grouping similar objects into clusters. This paper introduces a new similarity measure called point-set kernel which computes the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Ye Zhu

We present methods for k-means clustering on a stream with a focus on providing fast responses to clustering queries. Compared to the current state-of-the-art, our methods provide substantial improvement in the query time for cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yu Zhang , Kanat Tangwongsan , Srikanta Tirthapura

This thesis aims to invent new approaches for making inferences with the k-means algorithm. k-means is an iterative clustering algorithm that randomly assigns k centroids, then assigns data points to the nearest centroid, and updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Alfred K. Adzika , Prudence Djagba

One important tool is the optimal clustering of data into useful categories. Dividing similar objects into a smaller number of clusters is of importance in many applications. These include search engines, monitoring of academic performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Gavriel Yarmish , Philip Listowsky , Simon Dexter