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High-throughput spectrometers are capable of producing data sets containing thousands of spectra for a single biological sample. These data sets contain a substantial amount of redundancy from peptides that may get selected multiple times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Fahad Saeed , Trairak Pisitkun , Mark A. Knepper , Jason D. Hoffert

Single-level density-based approach has long been widely acknowledged to be a conceptually and mathematically convincing clustering method. In this paper, we propose an algorithm called "best-scored clustering forest" that can obtain the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-25 Hanyuan Hang , Yuchao Cai , Hanfang Yang

Research on cluster analysis for categorical data continues to develop, with new clustering algorithms being proposed. However, in this context, the determination of the number of clusters is rarely addressed. In this paper, we propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-29 Cláudia Silvestre , Margarida G. M. S. Cardoso , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

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

This work considers clustering nodes of a largely incomplete graph. Under the problem setting, only a small amount of queries about the edges can be made, but the entire graph is not observable. This problem finds applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shahana Ibrahim , Xiao Fu

This paper proposes a new distance metric between clusterings that incorporates information about the spatial distribution of points and clusters. Our approach builds on the idea of a Hilbert space-based representation of clusters as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Parasaran Raman , Jeff M. Phillips , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Multiple clustering aims at discovering diverse ways of organizing data into clusters. Despite the progress made, it's still a challenge for users to analyze and understand the distinctive structure of each output clustering. To ease this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Xing Wang , Jun Wang , Carlotta Domeniconi , Guoxian Yu , Guoqiang Xiao , Maozu Guo

DBSCAN is a typically used clustering algorithm due to its clustering ability for arbitrarily-shaped clusters and its robustness to outliers. Generally, the complexity of DBSCAN is O(n^2) in the worst case, and it practically becomes more…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Thapana Boonchoo , Xiang Ao , Qing He

We derive an efficient method to perform clustering of nodes in Gaussian graphical models directly from sample data. Nodes are clustered based on the similarity of their network neighborhoods, with edge weights defined by partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Keith Dillon

The density based clustering method {\em Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN)} is a popular method for outlier recognition and has received tremendous attention from many different areas. A major issue of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hu Ding , Fan Yang

Density-based clustering methodology has been widely considered in the statistical literature for classifying Euclidean observations. However, this approach has not been contemplated for directional data yet. In this work, directional…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Paula Saavedra-Nieves , Martín Fernández-Pérez

In sensor networks, it is not always practical to set up a fusion center. Therefore, there is need for fully decentralized clustering algorithms. Decentralized clustering algorithms should minimize the amount of data exchanged between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-13 Elsa Dupraz , Dominique Pastor , François-Xavier Socheleau

Convex clustering is a modern method with both hierarchical and $k$-means clustering characteristics. Although convex clustering can capture complex clustering structures hidden in data, the existing convex clustering algorithms are not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Daniel J. W. Touw , Patrick J. F. Groenen , Yoshikazu Terada

Doubly selective (DS) channel estimation in largescale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is a challenging problem due to the requirement of unaffordable pilot overheads and prohibitive complexity. In this paper, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Bo Gong , Qibo Qin , Xiang Ren , Lin Gui , Hanwen Luo , Wen Chen

Graph clustering is the problem of identifying sparsely connected dense subgraphs (clusters) in a given graph. Proposed clustering algorithms usually optimize various fitness functions that measure the quality of a cluster within the graph.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jiri Sima , Satu Elisa Schaeffer

This paper considers a network of sensors without fusion center that may be difficult to set up in applications involving sensors embedded on autonomous drones or robots. In this context, this paper considers that the sensors must perform a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Dominique Pastor , Elsa Dupraz , François-Xavier Socheleau

We investigate the potential and accuracy of clustering-based redshift estimation using the method proposed by M\'enard et al. (2013). This technique enables the inference of redshift distributions from measurements of the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Mubdi Rahman , Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton , Samuel J. Schmidt , Christopher B. Morrison

This paper presents a batch-wise density-based clustering approach for local outlier detection in massive-scale datasets. Unlike the well-known traditional algorithms, which assume that all the data is memory-resident, our proposed method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Sayyed Ahmad Naghavi Nozad , Maryam Amir Haeri , Gianluigi Folino

We propose a Fourier-based approach for optimization of several clustering algorithms. Mathematically, clusters data can be described by a density function represented by the Dirac mixture distribution. The density function can be smoothed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Soheil Mehrabkhani

Dense crowd counting aims to predict thousands of human instances from an image, by calculating integrals of a density map over image pixels. Existing approaches mainly suffer from the extreme density variances. Such density pattern shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Chenfeng Xu , Kai Qiu , Jianlong Fu , Song Bai , Yongchao Xu , Xiang Bai