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Data clustering is a process of arranging similar data into groups. A clustering algorithm partitions a data set into several groups such that the similarity within a group is better than among groups. In this paper a hybrid clustering…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-25 Ravindra Jain

$k$-means clustering is a well-studied problem due to its wide applicability. Unfortunately, there exist strong theoretical limits on the performance of any algorithm for the $k$-means problem on worst-case inputs. To overcome this barrier,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jon C. Ergun , Zhili Feng , Sandeep Silwal , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

We consider the problem of clustering in the learning-augmented setting, where we are given a data set in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, and a label for each data point given by an oracle indicating what subsets of points should be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Thy Nguyen , Anamay Chaturvedi , Huy Lê Nguyen

We propose a novel agglomerative clustering method based on unmasking, a technique that was previously used for authorship verification of text documents and for abnormal event detection in videos. In order to join two clusters, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Identifying the number $K$ of clusters in a dataset is one of the most difficult problems in clustering analysis. A choice of $K$ that correctly characterizes the features of the data is essential for building meaningful clusters. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-06 Adriano Zanin Zambom , Julian A. Collazos , Ronaldo Dias

This paper describes a method for clustering data that are spread out over large regions and which dimensions are on different scales of measurement. Such an algorithm was developed to implement a robotics application consisting in sorting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Joris Guérin , Olivier Gibaru , Stéphane Thiery , Eric Nyiri

K-means (MacQueen, 1967) [1] is one of the simplest unsupervised learning algorithms that solve the well-known clustering problem. The procedure follows a simple and easy way to classify a given data set to a predefined, say K number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Srikanta Kolay , Kumar Sankar Ray , Abhoy Chand Mondal

One of the most popular algorithms for clustering in Euclidean space is the $k$-means algorithm; $k$-means is difficult to analyze mathematically, and few theoretical guarantees are known about it, particularly when the data is {\em…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-02 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Sanjoy Dasgupta , Andrea Vattani

Trajectory clustering enables the discovery of common patterns in trajectory data. Current methods of trajectory clustering rely on a distance measure between two points in order to measure the dissimilarity between two trajectories. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zi Jing Wang , Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting

In this paper two novel possibilistic clustering algorithms are presented, which utilize the concept of sparsity. The first one, called sparse possibilistic c-means, exploits sparsity and can deal well with closely located clusters that may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Spyridoula D. Xenaki , Konstantinos D. Koutroumbas , Athanasios A. Rontogiannis

The K-means algorithm is one of the most widely studied clustering algorithms in machine learning. While extensive research has focused on its ability to achieve a globally optimal solution, there still lacks a rigorous analysis of its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mingyi Li , Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

Many clustering methods, including k-means, require the user to specify the number of clusters as an input parameter. A variety of methods have been devised to choose the number of clusters automatically, but they often rely on strong…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-10 Wei Fu , Patrick O. Perry

In this paper we provide a fully distributed implementation of the k-means clustering algorithm, intended for wireless sensor networks where each agent is endowed with a possibly high-dimensional observation (e.g., position, humidity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Gabriele Oliva , Roberto Setola , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

"Clustering" the significance and application of this technique is spread over various fields. Clustering is an unsupervised process in data mining, that is why the proper evaluation of the results and measuring the compactness and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Lopamudra Dey , Sanjay Chakraborty

This work introduces Jacobian-scaled K-means (JSK-means) clustering, which is a physics-informed clustering strategy centered on the K-means framework. The method allows for the injection of underlying physical knowledge into the clustering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Shivam Barwey , Venkat Raman

Big Data is a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is too large and it also difficult to process using traditional techniques. Clustering algorithms have developed as a powerful learning tool that can exactly analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Y. A. Joarder , Mosabbir Ahmed

In the era of Big Data, scalable and accurate clustering algorithms for high-dimensional data are essential. We present new Bayesian Distance Clustering (BDC) models and inference algorithms with improved scalability while maintaining the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-02 Rafael Cabral , Maria de Iorio , Andrew Harris

The paper is focused on the forecasting method for time series groups with the use of algorithms for cluster analysis. $K$-means algorithm is suggested to be a basic one for clustering. The coordinates of the centers of clusters have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-17 N. N. Astakhova , L. A. Demidova , E. V. Nikulchev

This paper gives a k-means approximation algorithm that is efficient in the relational algorithms model. This is an algorithm that operates directly on a relational database without performing a join to convert it to a matrix whose rows…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Alireza Samadian , Yuyan Wang

The incremental K-means clustering algorithm has already been proposed and analysed in paper [Chakraborty and Nagwani, 2011]. It is a very innovative approach which is applicable in periodically incremental environment and dealing with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Sanjay Chakraborty , N. K. Nagwani