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In this work, we introduce a novel methodology for divisive hierarchical clustering. Our divisive (``top-down'') approach is motivated by the fact that agglomerative hierarchical clustering (``bottom-up''), which is commonly used for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Jan O. Bauer

Hierarchical clustering is a popular unsupervised data analysis method. For many real-world applications, we would like to exploit prior information about the data that imposes constraints on the clustering hierarchy, and is not captured by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh , Moses Charikar

This paper introduces a hierarchical clustering algorithm, the Clustroid Hierarchical Nearest Neighbor ($\mathrm{CHN}^2$), designed for datasets with a countably infinite number of points. The method builds clusters across successive levels…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Sayeh Khaniha , François Baccelli

Clustering analysis is of substantial significance for data mining. The properties of big data raise higher demand for more efficient and economical distributed clustering methods. However, existing distributed clustering methods mainly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yifeng Xiao , Jiang Xue , Deyu Meng

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised face clustering algorithm called "Proximity-Aware Hierarchical Clustering" (PAHC) that exploits the local structure of deep representations. In the proposed method, a similarity measure between deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Wei-An Lin , Jun-Cheng Chen , Rama Chellappa

Hierarchical clustering is one of the most powerful solutions to the problem of clustering, on the grounds that it performs a multi scale organization of the data. In recent years, research on hierarchical clustering methods has attracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Antonia Korba

Pattern comparison represents a fundamental and crucial aspect of scientific modeling, artificial intelligence, and pattern recognition. Three main approaches have typically been applied for pattern comparison: (i) distances; (ii)…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-12 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

Recent works on Hierarchical Clustering (HC), a well-studied problem in exploratory data analysis, have focused on optimizing various objective functions for this problem under arbitrary similarity measures. In this paper we take the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Moses Charikar , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Rad Niazadeh , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

A novel method to obtain hierarchical and overlapping clusters from network data -i.e., a set of nodes endowed with pairwise dissimilarities- is presented. The introduced method is hierarchical in the sense that it outputs a nested…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Fernando Gama , Santiago Segarra , Alejandro Ribeiro

We design new parallel algorithms for clustering in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. These algorithms run in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, and are fully scalable, meaning that the local memory in each machine may be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Artur Czumaj , Guichen Gao , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Pavel Veselý

In this paper a variant of the classical hierarchical cluster analysis is reported. This agglomerative (bottom-up) cluster technique is referred to as the Adaptive Mean-Linkage Algorithm. It can be interpreted as a linkage algorithm where…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-10 H. M. de Oliveira

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) is one of the popular clustering approaches. Existing AHC methods, which are based on a distance measure, have one key issue: it has difficulty in identifying adjacent clusters with varied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xin Han , Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting , Gang Li

This paper presents a hierarchical low-rank decomposition algorithm assuming any matrix element can be computed in $O(1)$ time. The proposed algorithm computes rank-revealing decompositions of sub-matrices with a blocked adaptive cross…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Yang Liu , Wissam Sid-Lakhdar , Elizaveta Rebrova , Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye Sherry Li

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Nikos Parotsidis , Jakub Tarnawski

Clustering, a fundamental task in data science and machine learning, groups a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same cluster are closer to each other than to those in other clusters. In this paper, we consider a well-known…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Georgia Avarikioti , Alain Ryser , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

The problem of hierarchical clustering items from pairwise similarities is found across various scientific disciplines, from biology to networking. Often, applications of clustering techniques are limited by the cost of obtaining…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-20 Brian Eriksson

Getting a robust time-series clustering with best choice of distance measure and appropriate representation is always a challenge. We propose a novel mechanism to identify the clusters combining learned compact representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Soma Bandyopadhyay , Anish Datta , Arpan Pal

Hierarchical classification is a crucial task in many applications, where objects are organized into multiple levels of categories. However, conventional classification approaches often neglect inherent inter-class relationships at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Julius Ott , Nastassia Vysotskaya , Huawei Sun , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Deep clustering (DC) leverages the representation power of deep architectures to learn embedding spaces that are optimal for cluster analysis. This approach filters out low-level information irrelevant for clustering and has proven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Daniel de Mello , Renato Assunção , Fabricio Murai

This paper considers metric spaces where distances between a pair of nodes are represented by distance intervals. The goal is to study methods for the determination of hierarchical clusters, i.e., a family of nested partitions indexed by a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Weiyu Huang , Alejandro Ribeiro