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Convex clustering is a well-regarded clustering method, resembling the similar centroid-based approach of Lloyd's $k$-means, without requiring a predefined cluster count. It starts with each data point as its centroid and iteratively merges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Shubhayan Pan , Kushal Bose , Debolina Paul , Saptarshi Chakraborty , Swagatam Das

Given a set $F$ of $n$ positive functions over a ground set $X$, we consider the problem of computing $x^*$ that minimizes the expression $\sum_{f\in F}f(x)$, over $x\in X$. A typical application is \emph{shape fitting}, where we wish to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Dan Feldman , Michael Langberg

Data clustering, the task of grouping observations according to their similarity, is a key component of unsupervised learning -- with real world applications in diverse fields such as biology, medicine, and social science. Often in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Anne Sophie Riis Damstrup , Sofie Tosti Madsen , Michele Coscia

One of the applications of center-based clustering algorithms such as K-Means is partitioning data points into K clusters. In some examples, the feature space relates to the underlying problem we are trying to solve, and sometimes we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ali Hassani , Amir Iranmanesh , Mahdi Eftekhari , Abbas Salemi

Visual analytics is a subdomain of data analysis which combines both human and machine analytical abilities and is applied mostly in decision-making and data mining tasks. Triclustering, based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), was developed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Yury Kashnitsky

There is no, nor will there ever be, single best clustering algorithm. Nevertheless, we would still like to be able to distinguish between methods that work well on certain task types and those that systematically underperform. Clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Marek Gagolewski

Clustering is a widely-used data mining tool, which aims to discover partitions of similar items in data. We introduce a new clustering paradigm, \emph{accordant clustering}, which enables the discovery of (predefined) group level insights.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Amit Dhurandhar , Margareta Ackerman , Xiang Wang

This paper concerns the critical decision process of extracting or selecting the features before applying a clustering algorithm. It is not obvious to evaluate the importance of the features since the most popular methods to do it are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jean-Sebastien Dessureault , Daniel Massicotte

Unsupervised commonsense reasoning (UCR) is becoming increasingly popular as the construction of commonsense reasoning datasets is expensive, and they are inevitably limited in their scope. A popular approach to UCR is to fine-tune language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jie He , Simon Chi Lok U , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Jeff Z. Pan

Semi-supervised clustering seeks to augment traditional clustering methods by incorporating side information provided via human expertise in order to increase the semantic meaningfulness of the resulting clusters. However, most current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Caiming Xiong , David Johnson , Jason J. Corso

Clustering is a fundamental task for analyzing unlabeled data based solely on its underlying distribution. Spectral clustering is a clustering method that represents a dataset as a graph and uses the relationships between data points.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Hyeong-Gyu Kim , Siheon Park , June-Koo Kevin Rhee

This paper focuses on unpaired multi-view clustering (UMC), a challenging problem where paired observed samples are unavailable across multiple views. The goal is to perform effective joint clustering using the unpaired observed samples in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Like Xin , Wanqi Yang , Lei Wang , Ming Yang

Subspace clustering refers to the task of finding a multi-subspace representation that best fits a collection of points taken from a high-dimensional space. This paper introduces an algorithm inspired by sparse subspace clustering (SSC) [In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Ehsan Elhamifar , Emmanuel J. Candès

"Clustering" the significance and application of this technique is spread over various fields. Clustering is an unsupervised process in data mining, that is why the proper evaluation of the results and measuring the compactness and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Lopamudra Dey , Sanjay Chakraborty

A continual learning (CL) model is desired for remote sensing image analysis because of varying camera parameters, spectral ranges, resolutions, etc. There exist some recent initiatives to develop CL techniques in this domain but they still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Muhammad Anwar Ma'sum , Mahardhika Pratama , Ramasamy Savitha , Lin Liu , Habibullah , Ryszard Kowalczyk

We propose a low-rank transformation-learning framework to robustify subspace clustering. Many high-dimensional data, such as face images and motion sequences, lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. The subspace clustering problem has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Qiang Qiu , Guillermo Sapiro

Clustering multidimensional points is a fundamental data mining task, with applications in many fields, such as astronomy, neuroscience, bioinformatics, and computer vision. The goal of clustering algorithms is to group similar objects…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yihao Huang , Shangdi Yu , Julian Shun

The field of deep clustering combines deep learning and clustering to learn representations that improve both the learned representation and the performance of the considered clustering method. Most existing deep clustering methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Lukas Miklautz , Martin Teuffenbach , Pascal Weber , Rona Perjuci , Walid Durani , Christian Böhm , Claudia Plant

Unsupervised vision clustering, a cornerstone in computer vision, has been studied for decades, yielding significant outcomes across numerous vision tasks. However, these algorithms involve substantial computational demands when confronted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Hoang-Quan Nguyen , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Samee U. Khan , Hugh Churchill , Khoa Luu

Subspace clustering algorithms are used for understanding the cluster structure that explains the dataset well. These methods are extensively used for data-exploration tasks in various areas of Natural Sciences. However, most of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ashutosh Singh , Ashish Singh , Aria Masoomi , Tales Imbiriba , Erik Learned-Miller , Deniz Erdogmus