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Kernel $k$-means clustering can correctly identify and extract a far more varied collection of cluster structures than the linear $k$-means clustering algorithm. However, kernel $k$-means clustering is computationally expensive when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Shusen Wang , Alex Gittens , Michael W. Mahoney

Among many clustering algorithms, the K-means clustering algorithm is widely used because of its simple algorithm and fast convergence. However, this algorithm suffers from incomplete data, where some samples have missed some of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ali Beikmohammadi

We introduce the {\it diffusion $K$-means} clustering method on Riemannian submanifolds, which maximizes the within-cluster connectedness based on the diffusion distance. The diffusion $K$-means constructs a random walk on the similarity…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang

Many algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional spaces partition the data into clusters. At query time, in order to avoid exhaustive search, an index selects the few (or a single) clusters nearest to the query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-09-27 Romain Tavenard , Laurent Amsaleg , Hervé Jégou

\textit{Clustering problems} often arise in the fields like data mining, machine learning etc. to group a collection of objects into similar groups with respect to a similarity (or dissimilarity) measure. Among the clustering problems,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Kasturi Varadarajan

Center-based clustering algorithms (e.g., K-means) are popular for clustering tasks, but they usually struggle to achieve high accuracy on complex datasets. We believe the main reason is that traditional center-based clustering algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Qi Li

Clustering is a classic topic in optimization with $k$-means being one of the most fundamental such problems. In the absence of any restrictions on the input, the best known algorithm for $k$-means with a provable guarantee is a simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Sara Ahmadian , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Justin Ward

Algorithms for clustering points in metric spaces is a long-studied area of research. Clustering has seen a multitude of work both theoretically, in understanding the approximation guarantees possible for many objective functions such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Maria-Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Colin White

This paper presents a comparative analysis of different optimization techniques for the K-means algorithm in the context of big data. K-means is a widely used clustering algorithm, but it can suffer from scalability issues when dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ravil Mussabayev , Rustam Mussabayev

The classical k-means clustering, based on distances computed from all data features, cannot be directly applied to incomplete data with missing values. A natural extension of k-means to missing data, namely k-POD, uses only the observed…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-17 Xin Guan , Yoshikazu Terada

K-means algorithm is a very popular clustering algorithm which is famous for its simplicity. Distance measure plays a very important rule on the performance of this algorithm. We have different distance measure techniques available. But…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Mr. Dibya Jyoti Bora , Dr. Anil Kumar Gupta

We consider the problem of subspace clustering: given points that lie on or near the union of many low-dimensional linear subspaces, recover the subspaces. To this end, one first identifies sets of points close to the same subspace and uses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-03 Dohyung Park , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

Recent spectral clustering methods are a propular and powerful technique for data clustering. These methods need to solve the eigenproblem whose computational complexity is $O(n^3)$, where $n$ is the number of data samples. In this paper, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-11-26 Chunjing Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaoou Tang

Deep image clustering methods are typically evaluated on small-scale balanced classification datasets while feature-based $k$-means has been applied on proprietary billion-scale datasets. In this work, we explore the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Nikolas Adaloglou , Felix Michels , Kaspar Senft , Diana Petrusheva , Markus Kollmann

Center-based clustering is a fundamental primitive for data analysis and becomes very challenging for large datasets. In this paper, we focus on the popular $k$-median and $k$-means variants which, given a set $P$ of points from a metric…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Alessio Mazzetto , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci

We accelerated an ab-initio molecular QMC calculation by using GPGPU. Only the bottle-neck part of the calculation is replaced by CUDA subroutine and performed on GPU. The performance on a (single core CPU + GPU) is compared with that on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 Yutaka Uejima , Tomoharu Terashima , Ryo Maezono

Using a trimming approach, we investigate a k-means type method based on Bregman divergences for clustering data possibly corrupted with clutter noise. The main interest of Bregman divergences is that the standard Lloyd algorithm adapts to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Aurélie Fischer , Clément Levrard , Claire Brécheteau

The number of accidents and health diseases which are increasing at an alarming rate are resulting in a huge increase in the demand for blood. There is a necessity for the organized analysis of the blood donor database or blood banks…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Bondu Venkateswarlu , Prof G. S. V. Prasad Raju

Clustering algorithms are iterative and have complex data access patterns that result in many small random memory accesses. The performance of parallel implementations suffer from synchronous barriers for each iteration and skewed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Disa Mhembere , Da Zheng , Carey E. Priebe , Joshua T. Vogelstein , Randal Burns

K-Medoids(KM) is a standard clustering method, used extensively on semi-metric data.Error analyses of KM have traditionally used an in-sample notion of error,which can be far from the true error and suffer from generalization gap. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Aravindakshan Babu , Saurabh Agarwal , Sudarshan Babu , Hariharan Chandrasekaran