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The increasing needs of clustering massive datasets and the high cost of running clustering algorithms poses difficult problems for users. In this context it is important to determine if a data set is clusterable, that is, it may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Dan Simovici , Kaixun Hua

Data-based classification is fundamental to most branches of science. While recent years have brought enormous progress in various areas of statistical computing and clustering, some general challenges in clustering remain: model selection,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Jens Oehlschlägel

Biclustering has proved to be a powerful data analysis technique due to its wide success in various application domains. However, the existing literature presents efficient solutions only for enumerating maximal biclusters with constant…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Rosana Veroneze , Arindam Banerjee , Fernando J. Von Zuben

Clustering is a fundamental problem in data analysis. In differentially private clustering, the goal is to identify $k$ cluster centers without disclosing information on individual data points. Despite significant research progress, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Edith Cohen , Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour , Uri Stemmer , Eliad Tsfadia

Data analysis often involves an iterative process, where solutions must be continuously refined in response to new data. Typically, as new data becomes available, an existing solution must be updated to incorporate the latest information.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ameet Gadekar , Aristides Gionis , Thibault Marette

Extracting an understanding of the underlying system from high dimensional data is a growing problem in science. Discovering informative and meaningful features is crucial for clustering, classification, and low dimensional data embedding.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-10 Samuel Melton , Sharad Ramanathan

We study supervised learning problems using clustering constraints to impose structure on either features or samples, seeking to help both prediction and interpretation. The problem of clustering features arises naturally in text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Vincent Roulet , Fajwel Fogel , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach

Most convex and nonconvex clustering algorithms come with one crucial parameter: the $k$ in $k$-means. To this day, there is not one generally accepted way to accurately determine this parameter. Popular methods are simple yet theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Sibylle Hess , Wouter Duivesteijn

We consider the problem of clustering a set of high-dimensional data points into sets of low-dimensional linear subspaces. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are unknown. We propose a simple and low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

We consider the problem of deciding whether a highly incomplete signal lies within a given subspace. This problem, Matched Subspace Detection, is a classical, well-studied problem when the signal is completely observed. High- dimensional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-25 Laura Balzano , Bejamin Recht , Robert Nowak

Overlapping clusters are common in models of many practical data-segmentation applications. Suppose we are given $n$ elements to be clustered into $k$ possibly overlapping clusters, and an oracle that can interactively answer queries of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Wasim Huleihel , Arya Mazumdar , Muriel Médard , Soumyabrata Pal

Clustering is an essential data mining tool that aims to discover inherent cluster structure in data. For most applications, applying clustering is only appropriate when cluster structure is present. As such, the study of clusterability,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 A. Adolfsson , M. Ackerman , N. C. Brownstein

Numerous papers ask how difficult it is to cluster data. We suggest that the more relevant and interesting question is how difficult it is to cluster data sets {\em that can be clustered well}. More generally, despite the ubiquity and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Amit Daniely , Nati Linial , Michael Saks

Clustering is a NP-hard problem. Thus, no optimal algorithm exists, heuristics are applied to cluster the data. Heuristics can be very resource-intensive, if not applied properly. For substantially large data sets computational efficiencies…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Mujahid Sultan

We consider the problem of learning overcomplete dictionaries in the context of sparse coding, where each sample selects a sparse subset of dictionary elements. Our main result is a strategy to approximately recover the unknown dictionary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-08 Alekh Agarwal , Animashree Anandkumar , Praneeth Netrapalli

The problem of clustering a set of points moving on the line consists of the following: given positive integers n and k, the initial position and the velocity of n points, find an optimal k-clustering of the points. We consider two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Cristina G. Fernandes , Marcio T. I. Oshiro

In high-dimension, low-sample size (HDLSS) data, it is not always true that closeness of two objects reflects a hidden cluster structure. We point out the important fact that it is not the closeness, but the "values" of distance that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-30 Yoshikazu Terada

Relationship between agents can be conveniently represented by graphs. When these relationships have different modalities, they are better modelled by multilayer graphs where each layer is associated with one modality. Such graphs arise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-05 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi , Christophe Biernacki

There are various cluster validity indices used for evaluating clustering results. One of the main objectives of using these indices is to seek the optimal unknown number of clusters. Some indices work well for clusters with different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-09 Nathakhun Wiroonsri

We consider the problem of estimating the number of clusters (k) in a dataset. We propose a non-parametric approach to the problem that utilizes similarity graphs to construct a robust statistic that effectively captures similarity…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-13 Yichuan Bai , Lynna Chu