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K-means is one of the most widely used algorithms for clustering in Data Mining applications, which attempts to minimize the sum of the square of the Euclidean distance of the points in the clusters from the respective means of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sayantan Dasgupta

One of the most employed yet simple algorithm for cluster analysis is the k-means algorithm. k-means has successfully witnessed its use in artificial intelligence, market segmentation, fraud detection, data mining, psychology, etc., only to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Faheem Hussayn , Shahid M Shah

This paper considers $k$-means clustering in the presence of noise. It is known that $k$-means clustering is highly sensitive to noise, and thus noise should be removed to obtain a quality solution. A popular formulation of this problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Sungjin Im , Mahshid Montazer Qaem , Benjamin Moseley , Xiaorui Sun , Rudy Zhou

In this paper, we consider the $k$-center/median/means clustering with outliers problems (or the $(k, z)$-center/median/means problems) in the distributed setting. Most previous distributed algorithms have their communication costs linearly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Xiangyu Guo , Shi Li

Factorial k-means (FKM) clustering is a method for clustering objects in a low-dimensional subspace. The advantage of this method is that the partition of objects and the low-dimensional subspace reflecting the cluster structure are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Yoshikazu Terada

We consider a network of binary-valued sensors with a fusion center. The fusion center has to perform K-means clustering on the binary data transmitted by the sensors. In order to reduce the amount of data transmitted within the network,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Elsa Dupraz

Identifying a set of homogeneous clusters in a heterogeneous dataset is one of the most important classes of problems in statistical modeling. In the realm of unsupervised partitional clustering, k-means is a very important algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 J. Andrew Howe

We propose k^2-means, a new clustering method which efficiently copes with large numbers of clusters and achieves low energy solutions. k^2-means builds upon the standard k-means (Lloyd's algorithm) and combines a new strategy to accelerate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Eirikur Agustsson , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

This paper addresses the ambitious goal of merging two different approaches to group detection in complex domains: one based on fuzzy clustering and the other on community detection theory. To achieve this, two clustering algorithms are…

Kernel-based clustering algorithm can identify and capture the non-linear structure in datasets, and thereby it can achieve better performance than linear clustering. However, computing and storing the entire kernel matrix occupy so large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Li Chen , Shuisheng Zhou , Jiajun Ma

With the huge upsurge of information in day-to-days life, it has become difficult to assemble relevant information in nick of time. But people, always are in dearth of time, they need everything quick. Hence clustering was introduced to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray , Chandrali Sarma , Monica Jha

This paper gives a k-means approximation algorithm that is efficient in the relational algorithms model. This is an algorithm that operates directly on a relational database without performing a join to convert it to a matrix whose rows…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Alireza Samadian , Yuyan Wang

Clustering is a key task in machine learning, with $k$-means being widely used for its simplicity and effectiveness. While 1D clustering is common, existing methods often fail to exploit the structure of 1D data, leading to inefficiencies.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jake Hyun

Clustering plays a crucial role in computer science, facilitating data analysis and problem-solving across numerous fields. By partitioning large datasets into meaningful groups, clustering reveals hidden structures and relationships within…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Aryan Esmailpour , Stavros Sintos

The paper is focused on the forecasting method for time series groups with the use of algorithms for cluster analysis. $K$-means algorithm is suggested to be a basic one for clustering. The coordinates of the centers of clusters have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-17 N. N. Astakhova , L. A. Demidova , E. V. Nikulchev

K-Means clustering still plays an important role in many computer vision problems. While the conventional Lloyd method, which alternates between centroid update and cluster assignment, is primarily used in practice, it may converge to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Huu Le , Anders Eriksson , Thanh-Toan Do , Michael Milford

Clustering plays an important role in mining big data both as a modeling technique and a preprocessing step in many data mining process implementations. Fuzzy clustering provides more flexibility than non-fuzzy methods by allowing each data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Nasser Ghadiri , Meysam Ghaffari , Mohammad Amin Nikbakht

Kernel $k$-means clustering is a powerful tool for unsupervised learning of non-linearly separable data. Since the earliest attempts, researchers have noted that such algorithms often become trapped by local minima arising from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-13 Debolina Paul , Saptarshi Chakraborty , Swagatam Das , Jason Xu

Effectively applying the K-means algorithm to clustering tasks with incomplete features remains an important research area due to its impact on real-world applications. Recent work has shown that unifying K-means clustering and imputation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Lovis Kwasi Armah , Igor Melnykov

We consider the problem of data clustering with unidentified feature quality and when a small amount of labelled data is provided. An unsupervised sparse clustering method can be employed in order to detect the subgroup of features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Avgoustinos Vouros , Eleni Vasilaki