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We present AstroLink, an efficient and versatile clustering algorithm designed to hierarchically classify astrophysically-relevant structures from both synthetic and observational data sets. We build upon CluSTAR-ND, a hierarchical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-18 William H. Oliver , Pascal J. Elahi , Geraint F. Lewis , Tobias Buck

Constrained clustering has been well-studied for algorithms such as $K$-means and hierarchical clustering. However, how to satisfy many constraints in these algorithmic settings has been shown to be intractable. One alternative to encode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Xiang Wang , Buyue Qian , Ian Davidson

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

Density-based clustering techniques are used in a wide range of data mining applications. One of their most attractive features con- sists in not making use of prior knowledge of the number of clusters that a dataset contains along with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Roberto Pirrone , Vincenzo Cannella , Sergio Monteleone , Gabriella Giordano

We present a novel algorithm, called Links, designed to perform online clustering on unit vectors in a high-dimensional Euclidean space. The algorithm is appropriate when it is necessary to cluster data efficiently as it streams in, and is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-31 Philip Andrew Mansfield , Quan Wang , Carlton Downey , Li Wan , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

Density-based clustering has found numerous applications across various domains. The Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is capable of finding clusters of varied shapes that are not linearly…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Vinayak Mathur , Jinesh Mehta , Sanjay Singh

Graph partitioning schedules parallel calculations like sparse matrix-vector multiply (SpMV). We consider contiguous partitions, where the $m$ rows (or columns) of a sparse matrix with $N$ nonzeros are split into $K$ parts without…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Willow Ahrens

We study the widely used hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) algorithm on edge-weighted graphs. We define an algorithmic framework for hierarchical agglomerative graph clustering that provides the first efficient $\tilde{O}(m)$ time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Laxman Dhulipala , David Eisenstat , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Jessica Shi

DBSCAN is a popular density-based clustering algorithm that has many different applications in practice. However, the running time of DBSCAN in high-dimensional space or general metric space ({\em e.g.,} clustering a set of texts by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Guanlin Mo , Shihong Song , Hu Ding

Clustering is a fundamental tool for analyzing large data sets. A rich body of work has been devoted to designing data-stream algorithms for the relevant optimization problems such as $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. Such algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Kook Jin Ahn , Graham Cormode , Sudipto Guha , Andrew McGregor , Anthony Wirth

Single-linkage clustering is a popular form of hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) where the distance between two clusters is defined as the minimum distance between any pair of points across the two clusters. In single-linkage HAC,…

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This paper presents new parallel algorithms for generating Euclidean minimum spanning trees and spatial clustering hierarchies (known as HDBSCAN$^*$). Our approach is based on generating a well-separated pair decomposition followed by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yiqiu Wang , Shangdi Yu , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

Spectral-type subspace clustering algorithms have shown excellent performance in many subspace clustering applications. The existing spectral-type subspace clustering algorithms either focus on designing constraints for the reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Lai Wei , Zhengwei Chen , Jun Yin , Changming Zhu , Rigui Zhou , Jin Liu

To effectively handle clustering task for large-scale datasets, we propose a novel scalable skeleton clustering algorithm, namely GBSK, which leverages the granular-ball technique to capture the underlying structure of data. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yewang Chen , Junfeng Li , Shuyin Xia , Qinghong Lai , Xinbo Gao , Guoyin Wang , Dongdong Cheng , Yi Liu , Yi Wang

This paper focuses on scalability and robustness of spectral clustering for extremely large-scale datasets with limited resources. Two novel algorithms are proposed, namely, ultra-scalable spectral clustering (U-SPEC) and ultra-scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Dong Huang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Sheng Wu , Jian-Huang Lai , Chee-Keong Kwoh

Given a point set S and an unknown metric d on S, we study the problem of efficiently partitioning S into k clusters while querying few distances between the points. In our model we assume that we have access to one versus all queries that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Konstantin Voevodski , Maria-Florina Balcan , Heiko Roglin , Shang-Hua Teng , Yu Xia

Listing k-cliques plays a fundamental role in various data mining tasks, such as community detection and mining of cohesive substructures. Existing algorithms for the k-clique listing problem are built upon a general framework, which finds…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yehyun Nam , Jihoon Jang , Kunsoo Park , Jianye Yang , Cheng Long

Handling clustering problems are important in data statistics, pattern recognition and image processing. The mean-shift algorithm, a common unsupervised algorithms, is widely used to solve clustering problems. However, the mean-shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Le You , Han Jiang , Jinyong Hu , Chorng Chang , Lingxi Chen , Xintong Cui , Mengyang Zhao

Spectral clustering is a fundamental technique in the field of data mining and information processing. Most existing spectral clustering algorithms integrate dimensionality reduction into the clustering process assisted by manifold learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang , Xiaofang Zhou