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We develop Clustered Random Forests, a random forests algorithm for clustered data, arising from independent groups that exhibit within-cluster dependence. The leaf-wise predictions for each decision tree making up clustered random forests…

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This paper addresses the nearest neighbor search problem under inner product similarity and introduces a compact code-based approach. The idea is to approximate a vector using the composition of several elements selected from a source…

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Metric based comparison operations such as finding maximum, nearest and farthest neighbor are fundamental to studying various clustering techniques such as $k$-center clustering and agglomerative hierarchical clustering. These techniques…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Raghavendra Addanki , Sainyam Galhotra , Barna Saha

One important tool is the optimal clustering of data into useful categories. Dividing similar objects into a smaller number of clusters is of importance in many applications. These include search engines, monitoring of academic performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Gavriel Yarmish , Philip Listowsky , Simon Dexter

Clustering consists of partitioning data objects into subsets called clusters according to some similarity criteria. This paper addresses a generalization called quasi-clustering that allows overlapping of clusters, and which we link to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Fred Glover , Said Hanafi , Gintaras Palubeckis

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

A novel and intuitive nearest neighbours based clustering algorithm is introduced, in which a cluster is defined in terms of an equilibrium condition which balances its size and cohesiveness. The formulation of the equilibrium condition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 David P. Hofmeyr

Clustering is grouping of data by the proximity of some properties. We report on the possibility of increasing the efficiency of clustering of points in a plane using artificial quantum neural networks after the replacement of the two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 V. E. Zobov , I. S. Pichkovskiy

Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Yudong Chen , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

$k$-Clustering in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (e.g., $k$-median and $k$-means) is a fundamental machine learning problem. While near-linear time approximation algorithms were known in the classical setting for a dataset with cardinality $n$, it remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yecheng Xue , Xiaoyu Chen , Tongyang Li , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang

In container terminal yards, the Container Rehandling Problem (CRP) involves rearranging containers between stacks under specific operational rules, and it is a pivotal optimization challenge in intelligent container scheduling systems.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ruoqi Wang , Jiawei Li

This paper presents a novel query clustering approach to capture the broad interest areas of users querying search engines. We make use of recent advances in NLP - word2vec and extend it to get query2vec, vector representations of queries,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-08 S. K Kolluru , Prasenjit Mukherjee

Learned dense representations are a popular family of techniques for encoding queries and documents using high-dimensional embeddings, which enable retrieval by performing approximate k nearest-neighbors search (A-kNN). A popular technique…

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In this article, we develop a clique-based method for social network clustering. We introduce a new index to evaluate the quality of clustering results, and propose an efficient algorithm based on recursive bipartition to maximize an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Guang Ouyang , Dipak K. Dey , Panpan Zhang

According to the structural balance theory, a signed graph is considered structurally balanced when it can be partitioned into a number of modules such that positive and negative edges are respectively located inside and between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Nejat Arinik , Vincent Labatut , Rosa Figueiredo

Deep clustering aims to learn a clustering representation through deep architectures. Most of the existing methods usually conduct clustering with the unique goal of maximizing clustering performance, that ignores the personalized demand of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Mengdie Wang , Liyuan Shang , Suyun Zhao , Yiming Wang , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li , Xizhao Wang

Content caching at intermediate nodes is a very effective way to optimize the operations of Computer networks, so that future requests can be served without going back to the origin of the content. Several caching techniques have been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Ammar Gharaibeh , Abdallah Khreishah , Issa Khalil , Jie Wu

Spectral clustering is a fundamental technique in the field of data mining and information processing. Most existing spectral clustering algorithms integrate dimensionality reduction into the clustering process assisted by manifold learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang , Xiaofang Zhou

Clustering is a fundamental task in data mining and machine learning, particularly for analyzing large-scale data. In this paper, we introduce Clust-Splitter, an efficient algorithm based on nonsmooth optimization, designed to solve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jenni Lampainen , Kaisa Joki , Napsu Karmitsa , Marko M. Mäkelä

Spectral clustering is a celebrated algorithm that partitions objects based on pairwise similarity information. While this approach has been successfully applied to a variety of domains, it comes with limitations. The reason is that there…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Kwangjun Ahn , Kangwook Lee , Changho Suh