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Fair clustering aims to divide data into distinct clusters while preventing sensitive attributes (\textit{e.g.}, gender, race, RNA sequencing technique) from dominating the clustering. Although a number of works have been conducted and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Pengxin Zeng , Yunfan Li , Peng Hu , Dezhong Peng , Jiancheng Lv , Xi Peng

Clustering large, mixed data is a central problem in data mining. Many approaches adopt the idea of k-means, and hence are sensitive to initialisation, detect only spherical clusters, and require a priori the unknown number of clusters. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-13 Joshua Tobin , Mimi Zhang

Clustering is a technique for the analysis of datasets obtained by empirical studies in several disciplines with a major application for biomedical research. Essentially, clustering algorithms are executed by machines aiming at finding…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-30 Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli , Santiago Fernandez Gonzalez , Rolf Krause

The purpose of this paper is to study the algorithm FCM and some of its famous innovations, analyse and discover the method of applying hedge algebra theory that uses algebra to represent linguistic-valued variables, to FCM. Then, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Hung Thai Le , Khang Ding Tran , Hung Van Le

Clustering is a fundamental task in data mining and machine learning, particularly for analyzing large-scale data. In this paper, we introduce Clust-Splitter, an efficient algorithm based on nonsmooth optimization, designed to solve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jenni Lampainen , Kaisa Joki , Napsu Karmitsa , Marko M. Mäkelä

In clustering problems, a central decision-maker is given a complete metric graph over vertices and must provide a clustering of vertices that minimizes some objective function. In fair clustering problems, vertices are endowed with a color…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Seyed A. Esmaeili , Brian Brubach , Leonidas Tsepenekas , John P. Dickerson

Objective: The main objective of this paper is to construct a distributed clustering algorithm based upon spatial data correlation among sensor nodes and perform data accuracy for each distributed cluster at their respective cluster head…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-15 Jyotirmoy Karjee , H. S Jamadagni

Time series clustering is essential in scientific applications, yet methods for functional time series, collections of infinite-dimensional curves treated as random elements in a Hilbert space, remain underdeveloped. This work presents…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-03 Angel Lopez-Oriona , Ying Sun , Han Lin Shang

Clustering algorithms may unintentionally propagate or intensify existing disparities, leading to unfair representations or biased decision-making. Current fair clustering methods rely on notions of fairness that do not capture any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-15 Fritz Bayer , Drago Plecko , Niko Beerenwinkel , Jack Kuipers

Cluster assignment of large and complex images is a crucial but challenging task in pattern recognition and computer vision. In this study, we explore the possibility of employing fuzzy clustering in a deep neural network framework. Thus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Dayu Tan , Zheng Huang , Xin Peng , Weimin Zhong , Vladimir Mahalec

A method that uses fuzzy clustering algorithms to achieve particle identification based on pulse shape analysis is presented. The fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm is used to compute mean (principal) pulse shapes induced by different…

A fuzzy clustering algorithm for multidimensional data is proposed in this article. The data is described by vectors whose components are linguistic variables defined in an ordinal scale. The obtained results confirm the efficiency of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Zhengbing Hu , Yevgeniy V. Bodyanskiy , Oleksii K. Tyshchenko , Viktoriia O. Samitova

We propose a simple and efficient clustering method for high-dimensional data with a large number of clusters. Our algorithm achieves high-performance by evaluating distances of datapoints with a subset of the cluster centres. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Georgios Exarchakis , Omar Oubari , Gregor Lenz

Fuzzy logic deals with degrees of truth. In this paper, we have shown how to apply fuzzy logic in text mining in order to perform document clustering. We took an example of document clustering where the documents had to be clustered into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Sumit Goswami , Mayank Singh Shishodia

Clustering is indispensable for data analysis in many scientific disciplines. Detecting clusters from heavy noise remains challenging, particularly for high-dimensional sparse data. Based on graph-theoretic framework, the present paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Deli Zhao , Xiaoou Tang

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

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

The objective of clustering is to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify geometrical structures which might reside there, without assuming any prior knowledge on the characteristics of the data. The problem can be seen as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Luis-Evaristo Caraballo , José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez , Nadine Kroher

Clustering is a widely used unsupervised learning method for finding structure in the data. However, the resulting clusters are typically presented without any guarantees on their robustness; slightly changing the used data sample or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-02 Andreas Henelius , Kai Puolamäki , Henrik Boström , Panagiotis Papapetrou

Cluster analysis is one of the essential tasks in data mining and knowledge discovery. Each type of data poses unique challenges in achieving relatively efficient partitioning of the data into homogeneous groups. While the algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Ruben A. Gevorgyan , Yenok B. Hakobyan