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Bayesian clustering typically relies on mixture models, with each component interpreted as a different cluster. After defining a prior for the component parameters and weights, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are commonly used to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-30 Alexander Dombowsky , David B. Dunson

While deep face recognition has benefited significantly from large-scale labeled data, current research is focused on leveraging unlabeled data to further boost performance, reducing the cost of human annotation. Prior work has mostly been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Aruni RoyChowdhury , Xiang Yu , Kihyuk Sohn , Erik Learned-Miller , Manmohan Chandraker

Quality assessments of models in unsupervised learning and clustering verification in particular have been a long-standing problem in the machine learning research. The lack of robust and universally applicable cluster validity scores often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-30 Luzie Helfmann , Johannes von Lindheim , Mattes Mollenhauer , Ralf Banisch

A novel non-parametric estimator of the correlation between grouped measurements of a quantity is proposed in the presence of noise. This work is primarily motivated by functional brain network construction from fMRI data, where brain…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-16 Hanâ Lbath , Alexander Petersen , Wendy Meiring , Sophie Achard

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

A major limitation of clustering approaches is their lack of explainability: methods rarely provide insight into which features drive the grouping of similar observations. To address this limitation, we propose an ensemble-based clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Federico Maria Quetti , Elena Ballante , Silvia Figini , Paolo Giudici

Clustering real world data often faced with curse of dimensionality, where real world data often consist of many dimensions. Multidimensional data clustering evaluation can be done through a density-based approach. Density approaches based…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Rahmat Widia Sembiring , Jasni Mohamad Zain

Subspace clustering is a problem of exploring the low-dimensional subspaces of high-dimensional data. State-of-the-arts approaches are designed by following the model of spectral clustering based method. These methods pay much attention to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xuelong Li , Quanmao Lu , Yongsheng Dong , Dacheng Tao

Many cluster similarity indices are used to evaluate clustering algorithms, and choosing the best one for a particular task remains an open problem. We demonstrate that this problem is crucial: there are many disagreements among the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Martijn Gösgens , Alexey Tikhonov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Cluster analysis is widely used in the areas of machine learning and data mining. Fuzzy clustering is a particular method that considers that a data point can belong to more than one cluster. Fuzzy clustering helps obtain flexible clusters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Aybükë Oztürk , Stéphane Lallich , Jérôme Darmont

In some complicated datasets, due to the presence of noisy data points and outliers, cluster validity indices can give conflicting results in determining the optimal number of clusters. This paper presents a new validity index for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Mohammad Hossein Fazel Zarandi , Shahabeddin Sotudian , Oscar Castillo

The performance (accuracy and robustness) of several clustering algorithms is studied for linearly dependent random variables in the presence of noise. It turns out that the error percentage quickly increases when the number of observations…

Applications · Statistics 2009-11-13 Pamela Minicozzi , Fabio Rapallo , Enrico Scalas , Francesco Dondero

Data and data sources have become increasingly essential in recent decades. Scientists and researchers require more data to deploy AI approaches as the field continues to improve. In recent years, the rapid technological advancements have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Necmettin Bayar , W. T Al-Shaibani , Ibraheem Shayea , Abdulkader Taha , Azizul Azizan

A new clustering accuracy measure is proposed to determine the unknown number of clusters and to assess the quality of clustering of a data set given in any dimensional space. Our validity index applies the classical nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-15 Soumita Modak

The large size of nowadays' online multimedia databases makes retrieving their content a difficult and time-consuming task. Users of online sound collections typically submit search queries that express a broad intent, often making the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Xavier Favory , Frederic Font , Xavier Serra

In the field of whole slide image (WSI) classification, multiple instance learning (MIL) serves as a promising approach, commonly decoupled into feature extraction and aggregation. In this paradigm, our observation reveals that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xuenian Wang , Shanshan Shi , Renao Yan , Qiehe Sun , Lianghui Zhu , Tian Guan , Yonghong He

Face clustering can provide pseudo-labels to the massive unlabeled face data and improve the performance of different face recognition models. The existing clustering methods generally aggregate the features within subgraphs that are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yuan Cao , Di Jiang , Guanqun Hou , Fan Deng , Xinjia Chen , Qiang Yang

We introduce a method for validation of results obtained by clustering analysis of data. The method is based on resampling the available data. A figure of merit that measures the stability of clustering solutions against resampling is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erel Levine , Eytan Domany

Given full or partial information about a collection of points that lie close to a union of several subspaces, subspace clustering refers to the process of clustering the points according to their subspace and identifying the subspaces. One…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-16 Zachary Charles , Amin Jalali , Rebecca Willett

We introduce a new approach to deciding the number of clusters. The approach is applied to Optimally Tuned Robust Improper Maximum Likelihood Estimation (OTRIMLE; Coretto and Hennig 2016) of a Gaussian mixture model allowing for…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-29 Christian Hennig , Pietro Coretto