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Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning. Previous research has focused on learning-augmented $k$-means in Euclidean metrics, limiting its applicability to complex data representations. In this paper, we generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglin Fan , Kijun Shin

Manifold clustering, with its exceptional ability to capture complex data structures, holds a pivotal position in cluster analysis. However, existing methods often focus only on finding the optimal combination between K-means and manifold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Fangfang Li , Quanxue Gao

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

In many applications of X-ray computed tomography, an unsupervised segmentation of the reconstructed 3D volumes forms an important step in the image processing chain for further investigation of the digitized object. Therefore, the goal is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Thomas Lang

The pioneering method for unsupervised meta-learning, CACTUs, is a clustering-based approach with pseudo-labeling. This approach is model-agnostic and can be combined with supervised algorithms to learn from unlabeled data. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xingping Dong , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

We consider the problem of retrieving objects from image data and learning to classify them into meaningful semantic categories with minimal supervision. To that end, we propose a fully differentiable unsupervised deep clustering approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Steven Hickson , Anelia Angelova , Irfan Essa , Rahul Sukthankar

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) and Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) enhance the model performance by exploiting information from labeled and unlabeled data. The clustering assumption has proven advantageous for learning with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Durgesh Singh , Ahcène Boubekki , Robert Jenssen , Michael Kampffmeyer

In addition to finding meaningful clusters, centroid-based clustering algorithms such as K-means or mean-shift should ideally find centroids that are valid patterns in the input space, representative of data in their cluster. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Weiran Wang , Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

k-means has recently been recognized as one of the best algorithms for clustering unsupervised data. Since k-means depends mainly on distance calculation between all data points and the centers, the time cost will be high when the size of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-08 Raied Salman , Vojislav Kecman , Qi Li , Robert Strack , Erik Test

Unsupervised machine learning methods are used to identify structural changes using the melting point transition in classical molecular dynamics simulations as an example application of the approach. Dimensionality reduction and clustering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Nicholas Walker , Ka-Ming Tam , Brian Novak , M. Jarrell

Many clustering methods, including k-means, require the user to specify the number of clusters as an input parameter. A variety of methods have been devised to choose the number of clusters automatically, but they often rely on strong…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-10 Wei Fu , Patrick O. Perry

In this work, two new initialization methods for K-means clustering are proposed. Both proposals are based on applying a divide-and-conquer approach for the K-means|| type of an initialization strategy. The second proposal also utilizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Joonas Hämäläinen , Tommi Kärkkäinen , Tuomo Rossi

This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised clustering which remains one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. We propose the clustered generator model for clustering which contains both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-20 Dandan Zhu , Tian Han , Linqi Zhou , Xiaokang Yang , Ying Nian Wu

We propose a new model-independent method for new physics searches called Cluster Scanning. It uses the k-means algorithm to perform clustering in the space of low-level event or jet observables, and separates potentially anomalous clusters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Ivan Oleksiyuk , John Andrew Raine , Michael Krämer , Svyatoslav Voloshynovskiy , Tobias Golling

We consider the unsupervised learning problem of assigning labels to unlabeled data. A naive approach is to use clustering methods, but this works well only when data is properly clustered and each cluster corresponds to an underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Marthinus Christoffel du Plessis , Masashi Sugiyama

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

In real-world application scenarios, the identification of groups poses a significant challenge due to possibly occurring outliers and existing noise variables. Therefore, there is a need for a clustering method which is capable of…

Online deep clustering refers to the joint use of a feature extraction network and a clustering model to assign cluster labels to each new data point or batch as it is processed. While faster and more versatile than offline methods, online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

The downfall of many supervised learning algorithms, such as neural networks, is the inherent need for a large amount of training data. Although there is a lot of buzz about big data, there is still the problem of doing classification from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Armen Aghajanyan

Nodes localization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has arisen as a very challenging problem in the research community. Most of the applications for WSN are not useful without a priori known nodes positions. One solution to the problem is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Biljana Stojkoska , Danco Davcev , Andrea Kulakov