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Clustering partitions a dataset such that observations placed together in a group are similar but different from those in other groups. Hierarchical and $K$-means clustering are two approaches but have different strengths and weaknesses.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Anna D. Peterson , Arka P. Ghosh , Ranjan Maitra

We study the task of differentially private clustering. For several basic clustering problems, including Euclidean DensestBall, 1-Cluster, k-means, and k-median, we give efficient differentially private algorithms that achieve essentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised machine learning with many applications in data analysis. Popular clustering algorithms such as Lloyd's algorithm and $k$-means++ can take $\Omega(ndk)$ time when clustering $n$ points in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Moses Charikar , Monika Henzinger , Lunjia Hu , Maxmilian Vötsch , Erik Waingarten

Clustering is a powerful machine learning technique that groups "similar" data points based on their characteristics. Many clustering algorithms work by approximating the minimization of an objective function, namely the sum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Vaibhaw Kumar , Gideon Bass , Casey Tomlin , Joseph Dulny

WaveCluster is an important family of grid-based clustering algorithms that are capable of finding clusters of arbitrary shapes. In this paper, we investigate techniques to perform WaveCluster while ensuring differential privacy. Our goal…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Ling Chen , Ting Yu , Rada Chirkova

Subspace clustering is the problem of partitioning unlabeled data points into a number of clusters so that data points within one cluster lie approximately on a low-dimensional linear subspace. In many practical scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-24 Yining Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Aarti Singh

Estimating causal effects from randomized experiments is only possible if participants are willing to disclose their potentially sensitive responses. Differential privacy, a widely used framework for ensuring an algorithms privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni , Jean Pouget-Abadie

Cloud computing has garnered attention as a platform of query processing systems. However, data privacy leakage is a critical problem. Chowdhury et al. proposed Crypt(epsilon), which executes differential privacy (DP) over encrypted data on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 S. Ushiyama , T. Takahashi , M. Kudo , H. Yamana

Clustering is a key task in machine learning, with $k$-means being widely used for its simplicity and effectiveness. While 1D clustering is common, existing methods often fail to exploit the structure of 1D data, leading to inefficiencies.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jake Hyun

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

Organizing data into semantically more meaningful is one of the fundamental modes of understanding and learning. Cluster analysis is a formal study of methods for understanding and algorithm for learning. K-mean clustering algorithm is one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Doreswamy , K. S. Hemanth

Feature selection is a technique that extracts a meaningful subset from a set of features in training data. When the training data is large-scale, appropriate feature selection enables the removal of redundant features, which can improve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Koki Wakiyama , Tomohiro I , Hiroshi Sakamoto

Quantum computing is a promising paradigm based on quantum theory for performing fast computations. Quantum algorithms are expected to surpass their classical counterparts in terms of computational complexity for certain tasks, including…

The use of distributed optimization in machine learning can be motivated either by the resulting preservation of privacy or the increase in computational efficiency. On the one hand, training data might be stored across multiple devices.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Vassilios Yfantis , Achim Wagner , Martin Ruskowski

k-means has recently been recognized as one of the best algorithms for clustering unsupervised data. Since k-means depends mainly on distance calculation between all data points and the centers, the time cost will be high when the size of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-08 Raied Salman , Vojislav Kecman , Qi Li , Robert Strack , Erik Test

Combining data from varied sources has considerable potential for knowledge discovery: collaborating data parties can mine data in an expanded feature space, allowing them to explore a larger range of scientific questions. However, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Erik-Jan van Kesteren , Chang Sun , Daniel L. Oberski , Michel Dumontier , Lianne Ippel

This study aims to alleviate the trade-off between utility and privacy of differentially private clustering. Existing works focus on simple methods, which show poor performance for non-convex clusters. To fit complex cluster distributions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Junyoung Byun , Yujin Choi , Jaewook Lee

This work demonstrates two Privacy Policy (PP) summarisation models based on two different clustering algorithms: K-means clustering and Pre-determined Centroid (PDC) clustering. K-means is decided to be used for the first model after an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chanwoo Choi

Comparison of three kind of the clustering and find cost function and loss function and calculate them. Error rate of the clustering methods and how to calculate the error percentage always be one on the important factor for evaluating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Kamran Kowsari

This paper introduces k-splits, an improved hierarchical algorithm based on k-means to cluster data without prior knowledge of the number of clusters. K-splits starts from a small number of clusters and uses the most significant data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Seyed Omid Mohammadi , Ahmad Kalhor , Hossein Bodaghi