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Discovering and clustering subspaces in high-dimensional data is a fundamental problem of machine learning with a wide range of applications in data mining, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Earlier methods divided the problem into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-30 Maryam Jaberi , Marianna Pensky , Hassan Foroosh

We address the general task of learning with a set of candidate models that is too large to have a uniform convergence of empirical estimates to true losses. While the common approach to such challenges is SRM (or regularization) based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Alireza F. Pour , Shai Ben-David

Deep metric learning aims to learn an embedding space, where semantically similar samples are close together and dissimilar ones are repelled against. To explore more hard and informative training signals for augmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zheren Fu , Zhendong Mao , Bo Hu , An-An Liu , Yongdong Zhang

Recent work shows that post-training datasets for LLMs can be substantially downsampled without noticeably deteriorating performance. However, data selection often incurs high computational costs or is limited to narrow domains. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Paramita Mirza , Lucas Weber , Fabian Küch

In this paper, we investigate the learning-augmented $k$-median clustering problem, which aims to improve the performance of traditional clustering algorithms by preprocessing the point set with a predictor of error rate $\alpha \in [0,1)$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kangke Cheng , Shihong Song , Guanlin Mo , Hu Ding

$k$-means clustering is a well-studied problem due to its wide applicability. Unfortunately, there exist strong theoretical limits on the performance of any algorithm for the $k$-means problem on worst-case inputs. To overcome this barrier,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jon C. Ergun , Zhili Feng , Sandeep Silwal , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Predictive geometric models deliver excellent results for many Machine Learning use cases. Despite their undoubted performance, neural predictive algorithms can show unexpected degrees of instability and variance, particularly when applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Michaela Regneri , Malte Hoffmann , Jurij Kost , Niklas Pietsch , Timo Schulz , Sabine Stamm

Recent work in distance metric learning has focused on learning transformations of data that best align with provided sets of pairwise similarity and dissimilarity constraints. The learned transformations lead to improved retrieval,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-24 Kristjan Greenewald , Stephen Kelley , Alfred Hero

Symbolic Computation algorithms and their implementation in computer algebra systems often contain choices which do not affect the correctness of the output but can significantly impact the resources required: such choices can benefit from…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Tereso del Río , Matthew England

This paper proposes a discontinuity-sensitive approach to learn the solutions of parametric optimal control problems with high accuracy. Many tasks, ranging from model predictive control to reinforcement learning, may be solved by learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Gao Tang , Kris Hauser

Clustering is a widely used unsupervised learning technique involving an intensive discrete optimization problem. Associative Memory models or AMs are differentiable neural networks defining a recursive dynamical system, which have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Bishwajit Saha , Dmitry Krotov , Mohammed J. Zaki , Parikshit Ram

A limitation of many clustering algorithms is the requirement to tune adjustable parameters for each application or even for each dataset. Some techniques require an \emph{a priori} estimate of the number of clusters while density-based…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-20 Jeremy F. Magland , Alex H. Barnett

The nonparametric formulation of density-based clustering, known as modal clustering, draws a correspondence between groups and the attraction domains of the modes of the density function underlying the data. Its probabilistic foundation…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-27 Federico Ferraccioli , Giovanna Menardi

Identification of clusters of co-expressed genes in transcriptomic data is a difficult task. Most algorithms used for this purpose can be classified into two broad categories: distance-based or model-based approaches. Distance-based…

Applications · Statistics 2022-09-26 Gabriel Lozano , Nadia Atallah , Michael Levine

A modification of the Random Forest algorithm for the categorization of traffic situations is introduced in this paper. The procedure yields an unsupervised machine learning method. The algorithm generates a proximity matrix which contains…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Friedrich Kruber , Jonas Wurst , Michael Botsch

When training large machine learning models with many variables or parameters, a single machine is often inadequate since the model may be too large to fit in memory, while training can take a long time even with stochastic updates. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-19 Seunghak Lee , Jin Kyu Kim , Xun Zheng , Qirong Ho , Garth A. Gibson , Eric P. Xing

Most of the research on clustering ensemble focuses on designing practical consistency learning algorithms.To solve the problems that the quality of base clusters varies and the low-quality base clusters have an impact on the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jianwen Gan , Yan Chen , Peng Zhou , Liang Du

Instruction tuning is one of the key steps required for adapting large language models (LLMs) to a broad spectrum of downstream applications. However, this procedure is difficult because real-world datasets are rarely homogeneous; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shrihari Sridharan , Deepak Ravikumar , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy

We consider a distributed learning setting where each agent/learner holds a specific parametric model and data source. The goal is to integrate information across a set of learners to enhance the prediction accuracy of a given learner. A…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-21 Jiaying Zhou , Jie Ding , Kean Ming Tan , Vahid Tarokh

The goal of fair clustering is to find clusters such that the proportion of sensitive attributes (e.g., gender, race, etc.) in each cluster is similar to that of the entire dataset. Various fair clustering algorithms have been proposed that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-26 Jinwon Park , Kunwoong Kim , Jihu Lee , Yongdai Kim