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This paper presents a practical global optimization algorithm for the K-center clustering problem, which aims to select K samples as the cluster centers to minimize the maximum within-cluster distance. This algorithm is based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Jiayang Ren , Ningning You , Kaixun Hua , Chaojie Ji , Yankai Cao

The minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC), or k-means type clustering, has been recently extended to exploit prior knowledge on the cardinality of each cluster. Such knowledge is used to increase performance as well as solution quality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

The minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC), or k-means type clustering, is traditionally considered an unsupervised learning task. In recent years, the use of background knowledge to improve the cluster quality and promote…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Veronica Piccialli , Anna Russo Russo , Antonio M. Sudoso

Clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis and machine learning, used to group similar data points together. Among various clustering methods, the Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) is one of the most widely used. MSSC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Anna Livia Croella , Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

Global optimization of large-scale, complex systems such as multi-physics black-box simulations and real-world industrial systems is important but challenging. This work presents a novel Surrogate-Based Optimization framework based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Maaz Ahmad , Iftekhar A. Karimi

Constrained clustering has gained significant attention in the field of machine learning as it can leverage prior information on a growing amount of only partially labeled data. Following recent advances in deep generative models, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Laura Manduchi , Kieran Chin-Cheong , Holger Michel , Sven Wellmann , Julia E. Vogt

Combinatorial optimization problems for clustering are known to be NP-hard. Most optimization methods are not able to find the global optimum solution for all datasets. To solve this problem, we propose a global optimal path-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Qidong Liu , Ruisheng Zhang

Consensus-based optimization (CBO) is a versatile multi-particle optimization method for performing nonconvex and nonsmooth global optimizations in high dimensions. Proofs of global convergence in probability have been achieved for a broad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jonas Beddrich , Enis Chenchene , Massimo Fornasier , Hui Huang , Barbara Wohlmuth

Semi-supervised clustering is a basic problem in various applications. Most existing methods require knowledge of the ideal cluster number, which is often difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, satisfying the must-link constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Michael K. Ng , Zaikun Zhang

Minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC) is a widely used clustering model, of which the popular K-means algorithm constitutes a local minimizer. It is well known that the solutions of K-means can be arbitrarily distant from the true MSSC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Daniel Gribel , Thibaut Vidal

Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu

In this paper, Lipschitz univariate constrained global optimization problems where both the objective function and constraints can be multiextremal are considered. The constrained problem is reduced to a discontinuous unconstrained problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev , Domenico Famularo , Paolo Pugliese

This paper presents Constrained Centroid Clustering (CCC), a method that extends classical centroid-based clustering by enforcing a constraint on the maximum distance between the cluster center and the farthest point in the cluster. Using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni , Ramamurthy Garimella

The minimum sum-of-squares clustering problem (MSSC) consists of partitioning $n$ observations into $k$ clusters in order to minimize the sum of squared distances from the points to the centroid of their cluster. In this paper, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso , Angelika Wiegele

Spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms are sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data. In particular if the data has proximal and unbalanced clusters these algorithms can lead to poor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-22 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama

In many global Optimization Problems, it is required to evaluate a global point (min or max) in large space that calculation effort is very high. In this paper is presented new approach for optimization problem with subdivision labeling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Masoumeh Vali

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tools in data science and machine learning, and k-means clustering is one of the most common such methods. There is a variety of approximate algorithms for the k-means problem, but computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Martin Ryner , Jan Kronqvist , Johan Karlsson

The global optimization of a high-dimensional black-box function under black-box constraints is a pervasive task in machine learning, control, and engineering. These problems are challenging since the feasible set is typically non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 David Eriksson , Matthias Poloczek

The main challenge of multimodal optimization problems is identifying multiple peaks with high accuracy in multidimensional search spaces with irregular landscapes. This work proposes the Multiple Global Peaks Big Bang-Big Crunch (MGP-BBBC)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Fabio Stroppa , Ahmet Astar

Neural networks achieve strong empirical performance, but robustness concerns still hinder deployment in safety-critical applications. Formal verification provides robustness guarantees, but current methods face a scalability-completeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenting Li , Saif R. Kazi , Russell Bent , Duo Zhou , Huan Zhang
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