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In many scientific tasks we are interested in discovering whether there exist any correlations in our data. This raises many questions, such as how to reliably and interpretably measure correlation between a multivariate set of attributes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Panagiotis Mandros , Mario Boley , Jilles Vreeken

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

The explosion in the amount of data available for analysis often necessitates a transition from batch to incremental clustering methods, which process one element at a time and typically store only a small subset of the data. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Margareta Ackerman , Sanjoy Dasgupta

This paper considers a network of sensors without fusion center that may be difficult to set up in applications involving sensors embedded on autonomous drones or robots. In this context, this paper considers that the sensors must perform a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Dominique Pastor , Elsa Dupraz , François-Xavier Socheleau

Classification model selection is a process of identifying a suitable model class for a given classification task on a dataset. Traditionally, model selection is based on cross-validation, meta-learning, and user preferences, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sudarsun Santhiappan , Nitin Shravan , Balaraman Ravindran

Identifying groups that share common features among datasets through clustering analysis is a typical problem in many fields of science, particularly in post-omics and systems biology research. In respect of this, quantifying how a measure…

In the context of cluster analysis and graph partitioning, many external evaluation measures have been proposed in the literature to compare two partitions of the same set. This makes the task of selecting the most appropriate measure for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Nejat Arinik , Vincent Labatut , Rosa Figueiredo

Numerous algorithms have been produced for the fundamental problem of clustering under many different notions of fairness. Perhaps the most common family of notions currently studied is group fairness, in which proportional group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Seyed A. Esmaeili , Sharmila Duppala , John P. Dickerson , Brian Brubach

Datasets with a mixture of numerical and categorical attributes are routinely encountered in many application domains. In this work we examine an approach to clustering such datasets using homogeneity analysis. Homogeneity analysis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Rajiv Sambasivan , Sourish Das

We develop a novel algorithm, Predictive Hierarchical Clustering (PHC), for agglomerative hierarchical clustering of current procedural terminology (CPT) codes. Our predictive hierarchical clustering aims to cluster subgroups, not…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-03 Elizabeth C. Lorenzi , Stephanie L. Brown , Zhifei Sun , Katherine Heller

In empirical work it is common to estimate parameters of models and report associated standard errors that account for "clustering" of units, where clusters are defined by factors such as geography. Clustering adjustments are typically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Alberto Abadie , Susan Athey , Guido Imbens , Jeffrey Wooldridge

Composite development indicators used in policy making often subjectively aggregate a restricted set of indicators. We show, using dimensionality reduction techniques, including Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and for the first time…

General Economics · Economics 2020-03-27 Anshul Verma , Orazio Angelini , Tiziana Di Matteo

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

We propose a new approach for clustering DNA features using array CGH data from multiple tumor samples. We distinguish data-collapsing: joining contiguous DNA clones or probes with extremely similar data into regions, from clustering:…

Applications · Statistics 2010-12-21 Kyung In Kim , Etienne Roquain , Mark Van De Wiel

The input of most clustering algorithms is a symmetric matrix quantifying similarity within data pairs. Such a matrix is here turned into a quadratic set function measuring cluster score or similarity within data subsets larger than pairs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Giovanni Rossi

Big Data processing systems handle huge unstructured and structured data to store, process, and analyze through cluster analysis which helps in identifying unseen patterns to find the relationships between them. Clustering analysis over the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Dipesh Gyawali

Graph clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that partitions the nodes in a graph into different groups. Despite achieving significant progress in exploiting both attributed and structured data information, graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyang Hou , Zhihua Tian , Yan he , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Qingbiao Wu , Kui Ren

In multi-view clustering, the quality of different views may vary substantially, and low-quality or degraded views can impair overall clustering performance. However, existing studies mainly address this issue within the clustering process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mudi Jiang , Jiahui Zhou , Xinying Liu , Zengyou He , Zhikui Chen

Currently, data-driven discovery in biological sciences resides in finding segmentation strategies in multivariate data that produce sensible descriptions of the data. Clustering is but one of several approaches and sometimes falls short…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-12 Richard Tjörnhammar

A vast number of different methods are available for unsupervised classification. Since no algorithm and parameter setting performs best in all types of data, there is a need for cluster validation to select the actually best-performing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zoltán Botta-Dukát