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Medical image segmentation demands an efficient and robust segmentation algorithm against noise. The conventional fuzzy c-means algorithm is an efficient clustering algorithm that is used in medical image segmentation. But FCM is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-13 S. Zulaikha Beevi , M. Mohammed Sathik , K. Senthamaraikannan

We propose a simple and efficient clustering method for high-dimensional data with a large number of clusters. Our algorithm achieves high-performance by evaluating distances of datapoints with a subset of the cluster centres. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Georgios Exarchakis , Omar Oubari , Gregor Lenz

K-means is a classical clustering algorithm with wide applications. However, soft K-means, or fuzzy c-means at m=1, remains unsolved since 1981. To address this challenging open problem, we propose a novel clustering model, i.e.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Yujian Li , Bowen Liu , Zhaoying Liu , Ting Zhang

Centroid based clustering methods such as k-means, k-medoids and k-centers are heavily applied as a go-to tool in exploratory data analysis. In many cases, those methods are used to obtain representative centroids of the data manifold for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Randall Balestriero , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Richard Baraniuk

Federated learning is a technique that enables the use of distributed datasets for machine learning purposes without requiring data to be pooled, thereby better preserving privacy and ownership of the data. While supervised FL research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Swier Garst , Marcel Reinders

Federated clustering, an integral aspect of federated machine learning, enables multiple data sources to collaboratively cluster their data, maintaining decentralization and preserving privacy. In this paper, we introduce a novel federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Patrick Holzer , Tania Jacob , Shubham Kavane

The purpose of this paper is to improve the traditional K-means algorithm. In the traditional K mean clustering algorithm, the initial clustering centers are generated randomly in the data set. It is easy to fall into the local minimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Su Chang , Xu Zhenzong , Gao Xuan

The k-means clustering algorithm is a popular algorithm that partitions data into k clusters. There are many improvements to accelerate the standard algorithm. Most current research employs upper and lower bounds on point-to-cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Andreas Lang , Erich Schubert

We study federated clustering, where interconnected devices collaboratively cluster the data points of private local datasets. Focusing on hard clustering via the k-means principle, we formulate federated k-means as an instance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xu Yang , Salvatore Rastelli , Alexander Jung

The software for clustering students according to their educational achievements using fuzzy logic was developed in Python using the Google Colab cloud service. In the process of analyzing educational data, the problems of Data Mining are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Serhiy Balovsyak , Oleksandr Derevyanchuk , Hanna Kravchenko , Yuriy Ushenko , Zhengbing Hu

Clustering stands as one of the most prominent challenges in unsupervised machine learning. Among centroid-based methods, the classic $k$-means algorithm, based on Lloyd's heuristic, is widely used. Nonetheless, it is a well-known fact that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-30 Supratik Basu , Jyotishka Ray Choudhury , Debolina Paul , Swagatam Das

This paper presents a novel accelerated exact k-means algorithm called the Ball k-means algorithm, which uses a ball to describe a cluster, focusing on reducing the point-centroid distance computation. The Ball k-means can accurately find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Shuyin Xia , Daowan Peng , Deyu Meng , Changqing Zhang , Guoyin Wang , Zizhong Chen , Wei Wei

Clustering is a fundamental tool in unsupervised learning, used to group objects by distinguishing between similar and dissimilar features of a given data set. One of the most common clustering algorithms is k-means. Unfortunately, when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-17 Olga Dorabiala , J. Nathan Kutz , Aleksandr Aravkin

Clustering is an important facet of explorative data mining and finds extensive use in several fields. In this paper, we propose an extension of the classical Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm. The proposed algorithm, abbreviated as VFC,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Srinjoy Ganguly , Digbalay Bose , Amit Konar

Kernel-based clustering algorithms have the ability to capture the non-linear structure in real world data. Among various kernel-based clustering algorithms, kernel k-means has gained popularity due to its simple iterative nature and ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Radha Chitta , Rong Jin , Timothy C. Havens , Anil K. Jain

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning approach. Many clustering algorithms -- such as $k$-means -- rely on the euclidean distance as a similarity measure, which is often not the most relevant metric for high dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Aude Genevay , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Jean-Philippe Vert

K-means is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms in various disciplines, especially for large datasets. However the method is known to be highly sensitive to initial seed selection of cluster centers. K-means++ has been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Fouad Khan

This work presents a novel variant of the Firefly Algorithm (FA) for data clustering, addressing limitations of traditional methods like K-Means that struggle with non-uniform cluster shapes, densities, and the need for pre-defining the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 MKA Ariyaratne , Azwirman Gusrialdi , Yury Nikulin , Jaakko Peltonen

In recent years, the problem of fuzzy clustering has been widely concerned. The membership iteration of existing methods is mostly considered globally, which has considerable problems in noisy environments, and iterative calculations for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Jiang Xie , Qiao Deng , Shuyin Xia , Yangzhou Zhao , Guoyin Wang , Xinbo Gao

Pseudo-Centroid Clustering replaces the traditional concept of a centroid expressed as a center of gravity with the notion of a pseudo-centroid (or a coordinate free centroid) which has the advantage of applying to clustering problems where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Fred Glover