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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Md. Zubair , MD. Asif Iqbal , Avijeet Shil , Enamul Haque , Mohammed Moshiul Hoque , Iqbal H. Sarker

The $k$-Means clustering problem on $n$ points is NP-Hard for any dimension $d\ge 2$, however, for the 1D case there exists exact polynomial time algorithms. Previous literature reported an $O(kn^2)$ time dynamic programming algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Allan Grønlund , Kasper Green Larsen , Alexander Mathiasen , Jesper Sindahl Nielsen , Stefan Schneider , Mingzhou Song

We investigate the role of the initialization for the stability of the k-means clustering algorithm. As opposed to other papers, we consider the actual k-means algorithm and do not ignore its property of getting stuck in local optima. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-08-03 Sebastien Bubeck , Marina Meila , Ulrike von Luxburg

We study the effects of center initialization on the performance of a family of distributed gradient-based clustering algorithms introduced in [1], that work over connected networks of users. In the considered scenario, each user contains a…

Clustering samples according to an effective metric and/or vector space representation is a challenging unsupervised learning task with a wide spectrum of applications. Among several clustering algorithms, k-means and its kernelized version…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Marco Jacopo Ferrarotti , Sergio Decherchi , Walter Rocchia

K-means clustering, a classic and widely-used clustering technique, is known to exhibit suboptimal performance when applied to non-linearly separable data. Numerous adjustments and modifications have been proposed to address this issue,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Zhili Qiao , Wangqian Ju , Peng Liu

Among many clustering algorithms, the K-means clustering algorithm is widely used because of its simple algorithm and fast convergence. However, this algorithm suffers from incomplete data, where some samples have missed some of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ali Beikmohammadi

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

Clustering is a fundamental tool in unsupervised learning, used to group objects by distinguishing between similar and dissimilar features of a given data set. One of the most common clustering algorithms is k-means. Unfortunately, when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-17 Olga Dorabiala , J. Nathan Kutz , Aleksandr Aravkin

K-means is a widely used algorithm in clustering, however, its efficiency is primarily constrained by the computational cost of distance computing. Existing implementations suffer from suboptimal utilization of computational units and lack…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shixun Wu , Yitong Ding , Yujia Zhai , Jinyang Liu , Jiajun Huang , Zizhe Jian , Huangliang Dai , Sheng Di , Bryan M. Wong , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

This paper presents a new way of selecting an initial solution for the k-modes algorithm that allows for a notion of mathematical fairness and a leverage of the data that the common initialisations from literature do not. The method, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Henry Wilde , Vincent Knight , Jonathan Gillard

Clustering analysis has received considerable attention in spatial data mining for several years. With the rapid development of the geospatial information technologies, the size of spatial information data is growing exponentially which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Xia Yue , Wang Man , Jun Yue , Guangcao Liu

Random restart of a given algorithm produces many partitions to yield a consensus clustering. Ensemble methods such as consensus clustering have been recognized as more robust approaches for data clustering than single clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-09 Serge Vicente , Alejandro Murua

Identifying a set of homogeneous clusters in a heterogeneous dataset is one of the most important classes of problems in statistical modeling. In the realm of unsupervised partitional clustering, k-means is a very important algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 J. Andrew Howe

Clustering is a cornerstone of data analysis that is particularly suited to identifying coherent subgroups or substructures in unlabeled data, as are generated continuously in large amounts these days. However, in many cases traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jonathan Scott , Christoph H. Lampert , David Saulpic

$K$-means clustering is one of the most widely-used partitioning algorithm in cluster analysis due to its simplicity and computational efficiency. However, $K$-means does not provide an appropriate clustering result when applying to data…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-18 Bingling Wang , Yinxing Li , Wolfgang Karl Härdle

Clustering under pairwise constraints is an important knowledge discovery tool that enables the learning of appropriate kernels or distance metrics to improve clustering performance. These pairwise constraints, which come in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Benedikt Boecking , Vincent Jeanselme , Artur Dubrawski

A novel initialization method in the fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm is proposed for the color clustering problem. Given a set of color points, the proposed initialization extracts dominant colors that are the most vivid and distinguishable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Dae-Won Kim , Kwang H. Lee

The k-means algorithm is a partitional clustering method. Over 60 years old, it has been successfully used for a variety of problems. The popularity of k-means is in large part a consequence of its simplicity and efficiency. In this paper…

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We introduce k-NLPmeans and k-LLMmeans, text-clustering variants of k-means that periodically replace numeric centroids with textual summaries. The key idea, summary-as-centroid, retains k-means assignments in embedding space while…

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