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Clustering is an unsupervised technique of Data Mining. It means grouping similar objects together and separating the dissimilar ones. Each object in the data set is assigned a class label in the clustering process using a distance measure.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-10-13 Parul Agarwal , M. Afshar Alam , Ranjit Biswas

This paper deals with the problem of outliers in high frequency observation data from diffusion processes. Robust estimation methods are needed because the inclusion of outliers can lead to incorrect statistical inference even in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-06 Tomoyuki Nakagawa , Yusuke Shimizu

Clustering is a fundamental tool in statistical machine learning in the presence of heterogeneous data. Most recent results focus primarily on optimal mislabeling guarantees when data are distributed around centroids with sub-Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Soham Jana , Jianqing Fan , Sanjeev Kulkarni

In this work, we study the $k$-median and $k$-means clustering problems when the data is distributed across many servers and can contain outliers. While there has been a lot of work on these problems for worst-case instances, we focus on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Pranjal Awasthi , Ainesh Bakshi , Maria-Florina Balcan , Colin White , David Woodruff

In this research, a general theoretical framework for clustering is proposed over specific partial algebraic systems by the present author. Her theory helps in isolating minimal assumptions necessary for different concepts of clustering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-10 A. Mani

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

We consider a stationary random field indexed by an increasing sequence of subsets of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ obeying a very broad geometrical assumption on how the sequence expands. Under certain mixing and local conditions, we show how the tail…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Anders Rønn-Nielsen , Mads Stehr

Two natural and widely used representations for the community structure of networks are clusterings, which partition the vertex set into disjoint subsets, and layouts, which assign the vertices to positions in a metric space. This paper…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-06 Andreas Noack

Robustness in response to unexpected events is always desirable for real-world networks. To improve the robustness of any networked system, it is important to analyze vulnerability to external perturbation such as random failures or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Alan Kuhnle , Nam P. Nguyen , Thang N. Dinh , My T. Thai

Clustering algorithms are an essential part of the unsupervised data science ecosystem, and extrinsic evaluation of clustering algorithms requires a method for comparing the detected clustering to a ground truth clustering. In a general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ryan DeWolfe , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

The area of constrained clustering has been extensively explored by researchers and used by practitioners. Constrained clustering formulations exist for popular algorithms such as k-means, mixture models, and spectral clustering but have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hongjing Zhang , Tianyang Zhan , Sugato Basu , Ian Davidson

We study the problem of clustering sequences of unlabeled point sets taken from a common metric space. Such scenarios arise naturally in applications where a system or process is observed in distinct time intervals, such as biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tamal K. Dey , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Link prediction is an open problem in the complex network, which attracts much research interest currently. However, little attention has been paid to the relation between network structure and the performance of prediction methods. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Xu Feng , Jichang Zhao , Ke Xu

Robust optimization is a tractable and expressive technique for decision-making under uncertainty, but it can lead to overly conservative decisions when pessimistic assumptions are made on the uncertain parameters. Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Irina Wang , Cole Becker , Bart Van Parys , Bartolomeo Stellato

The random networks enriched with additional structures as metric and group-symmetry in background metric space are investigated. The important quantities like he clustering coefficient as well as the mean degree of separation in such…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Michal Demetrian , Martin Nehez

We propose a new class of robust and Fisher-consistent estimators for mixture models. These estimators can be used to construct robust model-based clustering procedures. We study in detail the case of multivariate normal mixtures and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-09 Juan D. Gonzalez , Ricardo Maronna , Victor J. Yohai , Ruben H. Zamar

Model selection is a major challenge in non-parametric clustering. There is no universally admitted way to evaluate clustering results for the obvious reason that no ground truth is available. The difficulty to find a universal evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Alex Mourer , Florent Forest , Mustapha Lebbah , Hanane Azzag , Jérôme Lacaille

The Gaussian cluster-weighted model (CWM) is a mixture of regression models with random covariates that allows for flexible clustering of a random vector composed of response variables and covariates. In each mixture component, it adopts a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-23 Antonio Punzo , Paul D. McNicholas

Designing efficient, effective, and consistent metric clustering algorithms is a significant challenge attracting growing attention. Traditional approaches focus on the stability of cluster centers; unfortunately, this neglects the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Diptarka Chakraborty , Hendrik Fichtenberger , Bernhard Haeupler , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson

In cluster analysis interest lies in probabilistically capturing partitions of individuals, items or observations into groups, such that those belonging to the same group share similar attributes or relational profiles. Bayesian posterior…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-23 Riccardo Rastelli , Nial Friel