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Multiple datasets containing different types of features may be available for a given task. For instance, users' profiles can be used to group users for recommendation systems. In addition, a model can also use users' historical behaviors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Weixiang Shao , Xiaoxiao Shi , Philip S. Yu

Graph clustering, an important unsupervised problem, has been shown to be more resistant to advances in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). In addition, almost all clustering methods focus on homophilic graphs and ignore heterophily. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xuanting Xie , Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang , Wenyu Chen , Bingheng Li

One of the most promising approaches for unsupervised learning is combining deep representation learning and deep clustering. Some recent works propose to simultaneously learn representation using deep neural networks and perform clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Mina Rezaei , Emilio Dorigatti , David Ruegamer , Bernd Bischl

The non-stationary nature of data streams strongly challenges traditional machine learning techniques. Although some solutions have been proposed to extend traditional machine learning techniques for handling data streams, these approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xuyang Yan , Abdollah Homaifar , Mrinmoy Sarkar , Abenezer Girma , Edward Tunstel

A good clustering algorithm can discover natural groupings in data. These groupings, if used wisely, provide a form of weak supervision for learning representations. In this work, we present Clustering-based Contrastive Learning (CCL), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Vivek Sharma , Makarand Tapaswi , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Clustering is a widely used technique in data mining applications for discovering patterns in underlying data. Most traditional clustering algorithms are limited to handling datasets that contain either numeric or categorical attributes.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of clustering-based approaches for self-supervised and unsupervised learning. However, the application of clustering is often heuristic, and the optimal methodology remains unclear. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xiaodong Wang , Jing Huang , Kevin J Liang

A hierarchical scheme for clustering data is presented which applies to spaces with a high number of dimension ($N_{_{D}}>3$). The data set is first reduced to a smaller set of partitions (multi-dimensional bins). Multiple clustering…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-10-16 Kevin McIlhany , Stephen Wiggins

We introduce Cluster Contrast (CueCo), a novel approach to unsupervised visual representation learning that effectively combines the strengths of contrastive learning and clustering methods. Inspired by recent advancements, CueCo is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Hierarchical clustering is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, organizing data into a tree of clusterings from which a partition can be chosen. This paper generalizes these ideas by proving that, for any reasonable hierarchy, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andrew Draganov , Pascal Weber , Rasmus Skibdahl Melanchton Jørgensen , Anna Beer , Claudia Plant , Ira Assent

Spectral clustering is a powerful tool for unsupervised data analysis. In this paper, we propose a context-aware hypergraph similarity measure (CAHSM), which leads to robust spectral clustering in the case of noisy data. We construct three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xi Li , Weiming Hu , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Zhongfei Zhang

Hierarchical clustering (HC) is an important data analysis technique in which the goal is to recursively partition a dataset into a tree-like structure while grouping together similar data points at each level of granularity. Unfortunately,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Vladimir Braverman , Jon C. Ergun , Chen Wang , Samson Zhou

Cluster analysis has become one of the most exercised research areas over the past few decades in computer science. As a consequence, numerous clustering algorithms have already been developed to find appropriate partitions of a set of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Abhisek Dash , Sujoy Chatterjee , Tripti Prasad , Malay Bhattacharyya

Graph clustering is a longstanding research topic, and has achieved remarkable success with the deep learning methods in recent years. Nevertheless, we observe that several important issues largely remain open. On the one hand, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Li Sun , Feiyang Wang , Junda Ye , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Clustering attempts to partition data instances into several distinctive groups, while the similarities among data belonging to the common partition can be principally reserved. Furthermore, incomplete data frequently occurs in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Miao Cheng , Xinge You

Biclustering, also known as co-clustering or two-way clustering, simultaneously partitions the rows and columns of a data matrix to reveal submatrices with coherent patterns. Incorporating background knowledge into clustering to enhance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Antonio M. Sudoso

Motivation: Clustering is a frequently used concept in variety of bioinformatical applications. We present a new method for hierarchical clustering of data called mutual information clustering (MIC) algorithm. It uses mutual information…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Alexander Kraskov , Harald Stögbauer , Ralph G. Andrzejak , Peter Grassberger

We introduce a novel statistical significance-based approach for clustering hierarchical data using semi-parametric linear mixed-effects models designed for responses with laws in the exponential family (e.g., Poisson and Bernoulli). Within…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-04 Alessandra Ragni , Chiara Masci , Francesca Ieva , Anna Maria Paganoni

Recently the deep learning has shown its advantage in representation learning and clustering for time series data. Despite the considerable progress, the existing deep time series clustering approaches mostly seek to train the deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Ying Zhong , Dong Huang , Chang-Dong Wang

Motivated by extracting and summarizing relevant information in short sentence settings, such as satisfaction questionnaires, hotel reviews, and X/Twitter, we study the problem of clustering words in a hierarchical fashion. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Eliabelle Mauduit , Andrea Simonetto