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This paper studies density-based clustering of point sets. These methods use dense regions of points to detect clusters of arbitrary shapes. In particular, we study variants of density peaks clustering, a popular type of algorithm that has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shangdi Yu , Joshua Engels , Yihao Huang , Julian Shun

Clustering techniques create hierarchal network structures, called clusters, on an otherwise flat network. In a dynamic environment-in terms of node mobility as well as in terms of steadily changing device parameters-the clusterhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-06-11 Matthias R. Brust , Adrian Andronache , Steffen Rothkugel

Identifying meaningful structure across multiple scales remains a central challenge in network science. We introduce Hierarchical Clustering Entropy (HCE), a general and model-agnostic framework for detecting informative levels in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jorge Martinez Armas

Spectral clustering became a popular choice for data clustering for its ability of uncovering clusters of different shapes. However, it is not always preferable over other clustering methods due to its computational demands. One of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mashaan Alshammari , John Stavrakakis , Masahiro Takatsuka

Attributed graphs model real networks by enriching their nodes with attributes accounting for properties. Several techniques have been proposed for partitioning these graphs into clusters that are homogeneous with respect to both semantic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Alessandro Baroni , Alessio Conte , Maurizio Patrignani , Salvatore Ruggieri

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 multidimensional points is a fundamental data mining task, with applications in many fields, such as astronomy, neuroscience, bioinformatics, and computer vision. The goal of clustering algorithms is to group similar objects…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yihao Huang , Shangdi Yu , Julian Shun

Subspace clustering refers to the problem of clustering high-dimensional data points into a union of low-dimensional linear subspaces, where the number of subspaces, their dimensions and orientations are all unknown. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-17 Reinhard Heckel , Eirikur Agustsson , Helmut Bölcskei

Similarity-based Hierarchical Clustering (HC) is a classical unsupervised machine learning algorithm that has traditionally been solved with heuristic algorithms like Average-Linkage. Recently, Dasgupta reframed HC as a discrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Ines Chami , Albert Gu , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Christopher Ré

Convex clustering is a recent stable alternative to hierarchical clustering. It formulates the recovery of progressively coalescing clusters as a regularized convex problem. While convex clustering was originally designed for handling…

Applications · Statistics 2019-12-12 Claire Donnat , Susan Holmes

Heterogeneous Information Network (HIN) embedding refers to the low-dimensional projections of the HIN nodes that preserve the HIN structure and semantics. HIN embedding has emerged as a promising research field for network analysis as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Rayyan Ahmad Khan , Martin Kleinsteuber

Clustering procedures suitable for the analysis of very high-dimensional data are needed for many modern data sets. In model-based clustering, a method called high-dimensional data clustering (HDDC) uses a family of Gaussian mixture models…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-06-28 Angelina Pesevski , Brian C. Franczak , Paul D. McNicholas

This paper presents two efficient hierarchical clustering (HC) algorithms with respect to Dasgupta's cost function. For any input graph $G$ with a clear cluster-structure, our designed algorithms run in nearly-linear time in the input size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Steinar Laenen , Bogdan-Adrian Manghiuc , He Sun

We initiate a comprehensive experimental study of objective-based hierarchical clustering methods on massive datasets consisting of deep embedding vectors from computer vision and NLP applications. This includes a large variety of image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Stanislav Naumov , Grigory Yaroslavtsev , Dmitrii Avdiukhin

We propose a hierarchical correlation clustering method that extends the well-known correlation clustering to produce hierarchical clusters applicable to both positive and negative pairwise dissimilarities. Then, in the following, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

We propose a clustering-based generalized low rank approximation method, which takes advantage of appealing features from both the generalized low rank approximation of matrices (GLRAM) and cluster analysis. It exploits a more general form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Yujun Zhu , Jie Zhu , Hizba Arshad , Zhongming Wang , Ju Ming

Capacitated spatial clustering, a type of unsupervised machine learning method, is often used to tackle problems in compressing, classifying, logistic optimization and infrastructure optimization. Depending on the application at hand, a…

Connected clustering denotes a family of constrained clustering problems in which we are given a distance metric and an undirected connectivity graph $G$ that can be completely unrelated to the metric. The aim is to partition the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jan Eube , Heiko Röglin

The recently emerged spectral clustering surpasses conventional clustering methods by detecting clusters of any shape without the convexity assumption. Unfortunately, with a computational complexity of $O(n^3)$, it was infeasible for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mashaan Alshammari , Masahiro Takatsuka

This paper presents algorithms for hierarchical, agglomerative clustering which perform most efficiently in the general-purpose setup that is given in modern standard software. Requirements are: (1) the input data is given by pairwise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-09-13 Daniel Müllner