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Clustering and prediction are two primary tasks in the fields of unsupervised and supervised learning, respectively. Although much of the recent advances in machine learning have been centered around those two tasks, the interdependent,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Yifeng Shi , Christopher M. Bender , Junier B. Oliva , Marc Niethammer

Deep clustering as an important branch of unsupervised representation learning focuses on embedding semantically similar samples into the identical feature space. This core demand inspires the exploration of contrastive learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haifeng Xia , Hai Huang , Zhengming Ding

A deep clustering model conceptually consists of a feature extractor that maps data points to a latent space, and a clustering head that groups data points into clusters in the latent space. Although the two components used to be trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Xingzhi Zhou , Nevin L. Zhang

Clustering in high dimension spaces is a difficult task; the usual distance metrics may no longer be appropriate under the curse of dimensionality. Indeed, the choice of the metric is crucial, and it is highly dependent on the dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Simo Alami. C , Rim Kaddah , Jesse Read

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning methodology where unlabeled elements/objects are grouped together aiming to the construction of well-established clusters that their elements are classified according to their similarity. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-20 Dimitrios Saligkaras , Vasileios E. Papageorgiou

With rapidly increasing data, clustering algorithms are important tools for data analytics in modern research. They have been successfully applied to a wide range of domains; for instance, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and financial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Ka-Chun Wong

Categorical sequence clustering plays a crucial role in various fields, but the lack of interpretability in cluster assignments poses significant challenges. Sequences inherently lack explicit features, and existing sequence clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Junjie Dong , Xinyi Yang , Mudi Jiang , Lianyu Hu , Zengyou He

The Multi-Task Learning (MTL) technique has been widely studied by word-wide researchers. The majority of current MTL studies adopt the hard parameter sharing structure, where hard layers tend to learn general representations over all tasks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Dehong Gao , Wenjing Yang , Huiling Zhou , Yi Wei , Yi Hu , Hao Wang

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

Clustering is a fundamental approach to understanding data patterns, wherein the intuitive Euclidean distance space is commonly adopted. However, this is not the case for implicit cluster distributions reflected by qualitative attribute…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Mingjie Zhao , Sen Feng , Yiqun Zhang , Mengke Li , Yang Lu , Yiu-ming Cheung

This paper explores the critical role of data clustering in data science, emphasizing its methodologies, tools, and diverse applications. Traditional techniques, such as partitional and hierarchical clustering, are analyzed alongside…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tai Dinh , Wong Hauchi , Daniil Lisik , Michal Koren , Dat Tran , Philip S. Yu , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra

The goal of lifetime clustering is to develop an inductive model that maps subjects into $K$ clusters according to their underlying (unobserved) lifetime distribution. We introduce a neural-network based lifetime clustering model that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 S Chandra Mouli , Leonardo Teixeira , Jennifer Neville , Bruno Ribeiro

Tabular data learning has extensive applications in deep learning but its existing embedding techniques are limited in numerical and categorical features such as the inability to capture complex relationships and engineering. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yuqian Wu , Hengyi Luo , Raymond S. T. Lee

To cluster, classify and represent are three fundamental objectives of learning from high-dimensional data with intrinsic structure. To this end, this paper introduces three interpretable approaches, i.e., segmentation (clustering) via the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Kai-Liang Lu , Avraham Chapman

While modern deep neural networks achieve impressive performance in vision tasks, they remain opaque in their decision processes, risking unwarranted trust, undetected biases and unexpected failures. We propose cluster paths, a post-hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Nicholas M. Kroeger , Vincent Bindschaedler

Sequence classification is the task of predicting a class label given a sequence of observations. In many applications such as healthcare monitoring or intrusion detection, early classification is crucial to prompt intervention. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Maayan Shvo , Andrew C. Li , Rodrigo Toro Icarte , Sheila A. McIlraith

We introduce a novel end-to-end approach for learning to cluster in the absence of labeled examples. Our clustering objective is based on optimizing normalized cuts, a criterion which measures both intra-cluster similarity as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

Subspace clustering is a growing field of unsupervised learning that has gained much popularity in the computer vision community. Applications can be found in areas such as motion segmentation and face clustering. It assumes that data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 Hankui Peng , Nicos G. Pavlidis

Traditional clustering methods aim to group unlabeled data points based on their similarity to each other. However, clustering, in the absence of additional information, is an ill-posed problem as there may be many different, yet equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bingchen Zhao , Oisin Mac Aodha

Deep learning methods are primarily proposed for supervised learning of images or text with limited applications to clustering problems. In contrast, tabular data with heterogeneous features pose unique challenges in representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Shourav B. Rabbani , Ivan V. Medri , Manar D. Samad