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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

Center-based clustering algorithms (e.g., K-means) are popular for clustering tasks, but they usually struggle to achieve high accuracy on complex datasets. We believe the main reason is that traditional center-based clustering algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Qi Li

The k-means clustering is one of the most popular clustering algorithms in data mining. Recently a lot of research has been concentrated on the algorithm when the dataset is divided into multiple parties or when the dataset is too large to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Riddhi Ghosal , Sanjit Chatterjee

This paper proposes a distributed algorithm for average consensus in a multi-agent system under a fixed bidirectional communication topology, in the presence of malicious agents (nodes) that may try to influence the average consensus…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia

The popular K-means clustering algorithm potentially suffers from a major weakness for further analysis or interpretation. Some cluster may have disproportionately more (or fewer) points from one of the subpopulations in terms of some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guancheng Zhou , Haiping Xu , Hongkang Xu , Chenyu Li , Donghui Yan

Clustering is a fundamental data processing task used for grouping records based on one or more features. In the vertically partitioned setting, data is distributed among entities, with each holding only a subset of those features. A key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Federico Mazzone , Trevor Brown , Florian Kerschbaum , Kevin H. Wilson , Maarten Everts , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter

This paper investigates the capability of correctly recovering well-separated clusters by various brands of the $k$-means algorithm. The concept of well-separatedness used here is derived directly from the common definition of clusters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek

Due to the progressive growth of the amount of data available in a wide variety of scientific fields, it has become more difficult to ma- nipulate and analyze such information. Even though datasets have grown in size, the K-means algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-11 Marco Capó , Aritz Pérez , José Antonio Lozano

Edge computing is an emerging paradigm to enable low-latency applications, like mobile augmented reality, because it takes the computation on processing devices that are closer to the users. On the other hand, the need for highly scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

We address general-shaped clustering problems under very weak parametric assumptions with a two-step hybrid robust clustering algorithm based on trimmed k-means and hierarchical agglomeration. The algorithm has low computational complexity…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-19 Luca Insolia , Domenico Perrotta

$K$-means, a simple and effective clustering algorithm, is one of the most widely used algorithms in multimedia and computer vision community. Traditional $k$-means is an iterative algorithm---in each iteration new cluster centers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Jingdong Wang , Jing Wang , Qifa Ke , Gang Zeng , Shipeng Li

Clustering is an essential task to unsupervised learning. It tries to automatically separate instances into coherent subsets. As one of the most well-known clustering algorithms, k-means assigns sample points at the boundary to a unique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Sixiao Zheng , Ke Fan , Yanxi Hou , Jianfeng Feng , Yanwei Fu

Efficient extraction of useful knowledge from these data is still a challenge, mainly when the data is distributed, heterogeneous and of different quality depending on its corresponding local infrastructure. To reduce the overhead cost,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

Recent research works on distributed adaptive networks have intensively studied the case where the nodes estimate a common parameter vector collaboratively. However, there are many applications that are multitask-oriented in the sense that…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-04 Jie Chen , Cédric Richard , Ali Sayed

Clustering based on belief functions has been gaining increasing attention in the machine learning community due to its ability to effectively represent uncertainty and/or imprecision. However, none of the existing algorithms can be applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Armel Soubeiga , Thomas Guyet , Violaine Antoine

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), an enhancement of 5G, processes data closer to its generation point, reducing latency and network load. However, the distributed and edge-based nature of 5G-MEC presents privacy and security challenges,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Thilina Pathirana , Ruxandra F. Olimid

Clustering is an unsupervised learning method that constitutes a cornerstone of an intelligent data analysis process. It is used for the exploration of inter-relationships among a collection of patterns, by organizing them into homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-04-13 G. Nathiya , S. C. Punitha , M. Punithavalli

The number of accidents and health diseases which are increasing at an alarming rate are resulting in a huge increase in the demand for blood. There is a necessity for the organized analysis of the blood donor database or blood banks…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Bondu Venkateswarlu , Prof G. S. V. Prasad Raju

This paper presents a comparative analysis of different optimization techniques for the K-means algorithm in the context of big data. K-means is a widely used clustering algorithm, but it can suffer from scalability issues when dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ravil Mussabayev , Rustam Mussabayev

We propose a simple and efficient clustering method for high-dimensional data with a large number of clusters. Our algorithm achieves high-performance by evaluating distances of datapoints with a subset of the cluster centres. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Georgios Exarchakis , Omar Oubari , Gregor Lenz