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Partial multi-view clustering (PVC) presents significant challenges practical research problem for data analysis in real-world applications, especially when some views of the data are partially missing. Existing clustering methods struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 BoHao Chen

Due to their conceptual simplicity, k-means algorithm variants have been extensively used for unsupervised cluster analysis. However, one main shortcoming of these algorithms is that they essentially fit a mixture of identical spherical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Raphael Araujo Sampaio , Joaquim Dias Garcia , Marcus Poggi , Thibaut Vidal

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

Clustering is one of the widely used techniques to find out patterns from a dataset that can be applied in different applications or analyses. K-means, the most popular and simple clustering algorithm, might get trapped into local minima if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zillur Rahman , Md. Sabir Hossain , Mohammad Hasan , Ahmed Imteaj

Vibration-based condition monitoring systems are receiving increasing attention due to their ability to accurately identify different conditions by capturing dynamic features over a broad frequency range. However, there is little research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Philipp Sepin , Jana Kemnitz , Safoura Rezapour Lakani , Daniel Schall

Clustering data is a popular feature in the field of unsupervised machine learning. Most algorithms aim to find the best method to extract consistent clusters of data, but very few of them intend to cluster data that share the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jean-Sébastien Dessureault , Daniel Massicotte

A novel combination of two widely-used clustering algorithms is proposed here for the detection and reduction of high data density regions. The Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is used for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bart J. J. Kremers , Aaron Ho , Jonathan Citrin , Karel L. van de Plassche

Clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis and machine learning, used to group similar data points together. Among various clustering methods, the Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) is one of the most widely used. MSSC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Anna Livia Croella , Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

In addition to finding meaningful clusters, centroid-based clustering algorithms such as K-means or mean-shift should ideally find centroids that are valid patterns in the input space, representative of data in their cluster. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Weiran Wang , Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

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

Application of K-Means algorithm is restricted by the fact that the number of clusters should be known beforehand. Previously suggested methods to solve this problem are either ad hoc or require parametric assumptions and complicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Sukavanan Nanjundan , Shreeviknesh Sankaran , C. R. Arjun , G. Paavai Anand

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

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

The incremental K-means clustering algorithm has already been proposed and analysed in paper [Chakraborty and Nagwani, 2011]. It is a very innovative approach which is applicable in periodically incremental environment and dealing with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Sanjay Chakraborty , N. K. Nagwani

Spherical k-means is a widely used clustering algorithm for sparse and high-dimensional data such as document vectors. While several improvements and accelerations have been introduced for the original k-means algorithm, not all easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Erich Schubert , Andreas Lang , Gloria Feher

The problem of constrained clustering has attracted significant attention in the past decades. In this paper, we study the balanced $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means clustering problems where the size of each cluster is constrained by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Hu Ding

K-Means algorithm is a popular clustering method. However, it has two limitations: 1) it gets stuck easily in spurious local minima, and 2) the number of clusters k has to be given a priori. To solve these two issues, a multi-prototypes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Dong Li , Shuisheng Zhou , Tieyong Zeng , Raymond H. Chan

K-means is an effective clustering technique used to separate similar data into groups based on initial centroids of clusters. In this paper, Normalization based K-means clustering algorithm(N-K means) is proposed. Proposed N-K means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Deepali Virmani , Shweta Taneja , Geetika Malhotra

We utilize the PageRank vector to generalize the $k$-means clustering algorithm to directed and undirected graphs. We demonstrate that PageRank and other centrality measures can be used in our setting to robustly compute centrality of nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Mustafa Hajij , Eyad Said , Robert Todd

K-means (MacQueen, 1967) [1] is one of the simplest unsupervised learning algorithms that solve the well-known clustering problem. The procedure follows a simple and easy way to classify a given data set to a predefined, say K number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Srikanta Kolay , Kumar Sankar Ray , Abhoy Chand Mondal