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Clustering is the task of gathering similar data samples into clusters without using any predefined labels. It has been widely studied in machine learning literature, and recent advancements in deep learning have revived interest in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

Breast cancer is a significant global health issue, and the diagnosis of breast cancer through imaging remains challenging. Mammography images are characterized by extremely high resolution, while lesions often occupy only a small portion…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-28 Shilong Yang , Chulong Zhang , Xiaokun Liang , Qi Zang , Juan Yu , Liang Zeng , Xiao Luo , Yexuan Xing , Xin Pan , Qi Li , Linlin Shen , Yaoqin Xie

Semi-supervised clustering techniques have emerged as valuable tools for leveraging prior information in the form of constraints to improve the quality of clustering outcomes. Despite the proliferation of such methods, the ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guangjie Zeng , Hao Peng , Angsheng Li , Zhiwei Liu , Runze Yang , Chunyang Liu , Lifang He

Early detection of melanoma is crucial for improving survival rates. Current detection tools often utilize data-driven machine learning methods but often overlook the full integration of multiple datasets. We combine publicly available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 SangHyuk Kim , Edward Gaibor , Brian Matejek , Daniel Haehn

One of the main challenges in data mining is choosing the optimal number of clusters without prior information. Notably, existing methods are usually in the philosophy of cluster validation and hence have underlying assumptions on data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruilin Zhang , Haiyang Zheng , Hongpeng Wang

Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu

Data mixing methods play a crucial role in semi-supervised learning (SSL), but their application is unexplored in long-tailed semi-supervised learning (LTSSL). The primary reason is that the in-batch mixing manner fails to address class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hongwei Zheng , Linyuan Zhou , Han Li , Jinming Su , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaoming Xu

In this paper we present clustering method is very sensitive to the initial center values, requirements on the data set too high, and cannot handle noisy data the proposal method is using information entropy to initialize the cluster…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-04-12 K. Suresh

In cancer research, clustering techniques are widely used for exploratory analyses and dimensionality reduction, playing a critical role in the identification of novel cancer subtypes, often with direct implications for patient management.…

Anomaly detection and localization in images is a growing field in computer vision. In this area, a seemingly understudied problem is anomaly clustering, i.e., identifying and grouping different types of anomalies in a fully unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Andrei-Timotei Ardelean , Tim Weyrich

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer developed from melanocytes. It is one of the most lethal types of cancer, accounting for approximately 75% of skin cancer deaths. Late stage melanoma is very difficult to treat, since the cancer cells are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-28 Xue Teng , Fuad Gwadry , Haley McConkey , Scott Ernst , Femida Gwadry-Sridhar

Despite tremendous advancements in Artificial Intelligence, learning from large sets of data in an unsupervised manner remains a significant challenge. Classical clustering algorithms often fail to discover complex dependencies in large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Adam Piróg , Halina Kwaśnicka

Classification and clustering algorithms have been proved to be successful individually in different contexts. Both of them have their own advantages and limitations. For instance, although classification algorithms are more powerful than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Tanmoy Chakraborty

Contrastive learning has been widely studied in sentence representation learning. However, earlier works mainly focus on the construction of positive examples, while in-batch samples are often simply treated as negative examples. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Jinghao Deng , Fanqi Wan , Tao Yang , Xiaojun Quan , Rui Wang

Similarity-based clustering methods separate data into clusters according to the pairwise similarity between the data, and the pairwise similarity is crucial for their performance. In this paper, we propose {\em Clustering by Discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yingzhen Yang , Ping Li

Clustering is a widely used unsupervised learning technique involving an intensive discrete optimization problem. Associative Memory models or AMs are differentiable neural networks defining a recursive dynamical system, which have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Bishwajit Saha , Dmitry Krotov , Mohammed J. Zaki , Parikshit Ram

A computational theory for clustering and a semi-supervised clustering algorithm is presented. Clustering is defined to be the obtainment of groupings of data such that each group contains no anomalies with respect to a chosen grouping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nassir Mohammad

Background: As available medical image datasets increase in size, it becomes infeasible for clinicians to review content manually for knowledge extraction. The objective of this study was to create an automated clustering resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Lidia Talavera-Martinez , Philipp Tschandl

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

Many community detection algorithms are inherently stochastic, leading to variations in their output depending on input parameters and random seeds. This variability makes the results of a single run of these algorithms less reliable.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yasamin Tabatabaee , Eleanor Wedell , Minhyuk Park , Tandy Warnow