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DBSCAN is a well-known density-based clustering algorithm to discover arbitrary shape clusters. While conceptually simple in serial, the algorithm is challenging to efficiently parallelize on manycore GPU architectures. Common pitfalls,…

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Economic policy and research rely on the correct evaluation of the billions of high-frequency data points that we collect every day. Consistent clustering algorithms, like DBSCAN, allow us to make sense of the data in a useful way. However,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Nicholas Waltz

Many scientific problems involve data that is embedded in a space with periodic boundary conditions. This can for instance be related to an inherent cyclic or rotational symmetry in the data or a spatially extended periodicity. When…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xander M. de Wit , Alessandro Gabbana

We present sDBSCAN, a scalable density-based clustering algorithm in high dimensions with cosine distance. Utilizing the neighborhood-preserving property of random projections, sDBSCAN can quickly identify core points and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haochuan Xu , Ninh Pham

DBSCAN is a very classic algorithm for data clus- tering, which is widely used in many fields. However, with the data scale growing much more bigger than before, the traditional serial algorithm can not meet the performance requirement.…

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HDBSCAN is a density-based clustering algorithm that constructs a cluster hierarchy tree and then uses a specific stability measure to extract flat clusters from the tree. We show how the application of an additional threshold value can…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Claudia Malzer , Marcus Baum

Clustering techniques are very attractive for extracting and identifying patterns in datasets. However, their application to very large spatial datasets presents numerous challenges such as high-dimensionality data, heterogeneity, and high…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Malika Bendechache , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

Density Based Clustering are a type of Clustering methods using in data mining for extracting previously unknown patterns from data sets. There are a number of density based clustering methods such as DBSCAN, OPTICS, DENCLUE, VDBSCAN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Rupanka Bhuyan , Samarjeet Borah

The Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) is a topometric algorithm used to cluster spatial data that are affected by background noise. For the first time, we propose the use of this method for the detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Tramacere , C. Vecchio

Anomaly detection in distributed systems such as High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters is vital for early fault detection, performance optimisation, security monitoring, reliability in general but also operational insights. Deep Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Franz Kevin Stehle , Wainer Vandelli , Giuseppe Avolio , Felix Zahn , Holger Fröning

Clustering is an unsupervised technique for grouping data points by similarity. While explainability methods exist for supervised machine learning, they are not directly applicable to clustering, making it challenging to understand cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Pernille Matthews , Lena Krieger , Tommaso Amico , Artur Zimek , Thomas Seidl , Ira Assent

DBSCAN, a well-known density-based clustering algorithm, has gained widespread popularity and usage due to its effectiveness in identifying clusters of arbitrary shapes and handling noisy data. However, it encounters challenges in producing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Hao Peng , Xiang Huang , Shuo Sun , Ruitong Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Clustering is a cornerstone of modern data analysis. Detecting clusters in exploratory data analyses (EDA) requires algorithms that make few assumptions about the data. Density-based clustering algorithms are particularly well-suited for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Daniël Bot , Leland McInnes , Jan Aerts

DBSCAN* and HDBSCAN* are well established density based clustering algorithms. However, obtaining the clusters of very large datasets is infeasible, limiting their use in real world applications. By exploiting the geometry of Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 A. L. Garcia-Pulido , K. P. Samardzhiev

This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of prominent clustering algorithms K-means, DBSCAN, and Spectral Clustering on high-dimensional datasets. We introduce a novel evaluation framework that assesses clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Vishnu Vardhan Baligodugula , Fathi Amsaad

The traditional algorithms do not meet the latest multiple requirements simultaneously for objects. Density-based method is one of the methodologies, which can detect arbitrary shaped clusters where clusters are defined as dense regions…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Singh Vijendra , Priyanka Trikha

DBSCAN and OPTICS are powerful algorithms for identifying clusters of points in domains where few assumptions can be made about the structure of the data. In this paper, we leverage these strengths and introduce a new algorithm, LINSCAN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Andrew Dennehy , Xiaoyu Zou , Shabnam J. Semnani , Yuri Fialko , Alexander Cloninger

The computation of scientific data can be very time consuming even if they are ultimately determined by a small number of parameters. The principle of compressed sampling suggests that we can achieve a considerable decrease in the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 J. Almeida , J. Prior , M. B. Plenio

We present an accelerated algorithm for hierarchical density based clustering. Our new algorithm improves upon HDBSCAN*, which itself provided a significant qualitative improvement over the popular DBSCAN algorithm. The accelerated HDBSCAN*…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-20 Leland McInnes , John Healy

This paper revisits the DBSCAN problem under differential privacy (DP). Existing DP-DBSCAN algorithms aim at publishing the cluster labels of the input points. However, we show that both empirically and theoretically, this approach cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yuan Qiu , Ke Yi