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Deep graph clustering, which aims to group nodes into disjoint clusters by neural networks in an unsupervised manner, has attracted great attention in recent years. Although the performance has been largely improved, the excellent…

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Federated clustering addresses the critical challenge of extracting patterns from decentralized, unlabeled data. However, it is hampered by the flaw that current approaches are forced to accept a compromise between performance and privacy:…

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Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs) have significantly succeeded in learning user and item representations for recommendation systems. The core of their efficacy is the ability to explicitly exploit the collaborative signals from both the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Fan Liu , Shuai Zhao , Zhiyong Cheng , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Concept Factorization (CF) models have attracted widespread attention due to their excellent performance in data clustering. In recent years, many variant models based on CF have achieved great success in clustering by taking into account…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhengqin Yang , Di Wu , Jia Chen , Xin Luo

Explainable machine learning (XML) has emerged as a major challenge in artificial intelligence (AI). Although black-box models such as Deep Neural Networks and Gradient Boosting often exhibit exceptional predictive accuracy, their lack of…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-18 Evgenii Kuriabov , Jia Li

Explainability in yield prediction helps us fully explore the potential of machine learning models that are already able to achieve high accuracy for a variety of yield prediction scenarios. The data included for the prediction of yields…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Florian Huber , Hannes Engler , Anna Kicherer , Katja Herzog , Reinhard Töpfer , Volker Steinhage

Federated learning has attracted significant attention as a privacy-preserving framework for training personalised models on multi-source heterogeneous data. However, most existing approaches are unable to handle scenarios where subgroup…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-14 Changxin Yang , Zhongyi Zhu , Heng Lian

Clustering is an important data mining technique that groups similar data records, recently categorical transaction clustering is received more attention. In this research, we study the problem of categorical data clustering for…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Mahmoud Mahdi , Samir Abdelrahman , Reem Bahgat , Ismail Ismail

We propose a new clustering technique that can be regarded as a numerical method to compute the proximity gestalt. The method analyzes edge length statistics in the MST of the dataset and provides an a contrario cluster detection criterion.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Mariano Tepper , Pablo Musé , Andrés Almansa

Decomposition plays a significant role in cooperative co-evolution which shows great potential in large scale black-box optimization. However, current popular decomposition algorithms generally require to sample and evaluate a large number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Zhigang Ren , An Chen , Yaochu Jin , Wenhua Guo , Yongsheng Liang , Zuren Feng

Process discovery algorithms automatically extract process models from event logs, but high variability often results in complex and hard-to-understand models. To mitigate this issue, trace clustering techniques group process executions…

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Clustering algorithms rely on complex optimisation processes that may be difficult to comprehend, especially for individuals who lack technical expertise. While many explainable artificial intelligence techniques exist for supervised…

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Fair clustering has become a socially significant task with the advancement of machine learning technologies and the growing demand for trustworthy AI. Group fairness ensures that the proportions of each sensitive group are similar in all…

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Understanding causal heterogeneity is essential for scientific discovery in domains such as biology and medicine. However, existing methods lack causal awareness, with insufficient modeling of heterogeneity, confounding, and observational…

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Finite Mixture of Regressions (FMR) models are among the most widely used approaches in dealing with the heterogeneity among the observations in regression problems. One of the limitations of current approaches is their inability to…

Applications · Statistics 2018-06-25 Haidar Almohri , Arash Ali Amini , Ratna Babu Chinnam

In the era of single-cell sequencing, there is a growing need to extract insights from data with clustering methods. Here, we introduce Forest Fire Clustering, an efficient and interpretable method for cell-type discovery from single-cell…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zhanlin Chen , Jeremy Goldwasser , Philip Tuckman , Jason Liu , Jing Zhang , Mark Gerstein

Mixture model-based frameworks are very popular for statistical inference in clustering. While convenient for producing probabilistic estimates of cluster assignments and uncertainty, they are prone to misspecification, which can lead to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Yu Zheng , Leo L. Duan , Arkaprava Roy

Granger causality recovers directed interactions from time-series data, but in many distributed systems, the data are vertically partitioned across clients, with each client observing only the variables of its own subsystem. Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ayush Mohanty , Nazal Mohamed , Nagi Gebraeel

Federated recommendation applies federated learning techniques in recommendation systems to help protect user privacy by exchanging models instead of raw user data between user devices and the central server. Due to the heterogeneity in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Sichun Luo , Yuanzhang Xiao , Linqi Song

Building predictive models for tabular data presents fundamental challenges, notably in scaling consistently, i.e., more resources translating to better performance, and generalizing systematically beyond the training data distribution.…