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Recently, there has been substantial interest in clustering research that takes a beyond worst-case approach to the analysis of algorithms. The typical idea is to design a clustering algorithm that outputs a near-optimal solution, provided…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Maria-Florina Balcan , Colin White

Medical data often exhibit characteristics that make cluster analysis particularly challenging, such as missing values, outliers, and cluster features like skewness. Typically, such data would need to be preprocessed -- by cleaning outliers…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-16 Jason Pillay , Cristina Tortora , Antonio Punzo , Andriette Bekker

Web access today occurs predominantly through mobile devices, with Android representing a significant share of the mobile device market. This widespread usage makes Android a prime target for malicious attacks. Despite efforts to combat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nishavi Ranaweera , Jiarui Xu , Suranga Seneviratne , Aruna Seneviratne

Clustering is widely used for unsupervised structure discovery, yet it offers limited insight into how reliable each individual assignment is. Diagnostics, such as convergence behavior or objective values, may reflect global quality, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Aggelos Semoglou , John Pavlopoulos

With the development of artificial intelligence algorithms like deep learning models and the successful applications in many different fields, further similar trails of deep learning technology have been made in cyber security area. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Shuqiang Lu , Lingyun Ying , Wenjie Lin , Yu Wang , Meining Nie , Kaiwen Shen , Lu Liu , Haixin Duan

In this paper, we advocate a novel measure for the purpose of checking the quality of a cluster partition for a sample into several distinct classes, and thus, determine the unknown value for the true number of clusters prevailing the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-04-12 Soumita Modak

The problem of malicious software (malware) detection and classification is a complex task, and there is no perfect approach. There is still a lot of work to be done. Unlike most other research areas, standard benchmarks are difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita , Mahmoud Bensaoud

Clustering mixed-type data remains a major challenge in biomedical research to uncover clinically meaningful subgroups within heterogeneous patient populations. Most existing clustering methods impose restrictive assumptions like local…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-23 Yueting Wang , Shu Wang , Jonathan G. Yabes , Chung-Chou H. Chang

In general, the industry of malware has come to be a market which brings on loads of money by investing and implementing high end technology to escape traditional detection while vendors of anti-malware spend thousands if not millions of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Mouhammd Alkasassbeh , Samail Al-Daleen

Digital systems find it challenging to keep up with cybersecurity threats. The daily emergence of more than 560,000 new malware strains poses significant hazards to the digital ecosystem. The traditional malware detection methods fail to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Abrar Fahim , Shamik Dey , Md. Nurul Absur , Md Kamrul Siam , Md. Tahmidul Huque , Jafreen Jafor Godhuli

Determining the correct number of clusters (CNC) is an important task in data clustering and has a critical effect on finalizing the partitioning results. K-means is one of the popular methods of clustering that requires CNC. Validity index…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Soosan Beheshti , Edward Nidoy , Faizan Rahman

Clustering is an important data mining technique where we will be interested in maximizing intracluster distance and also minimizing intercluster distance. We have utilized clustering techniques for detecting deviation in product sales and…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-12-11 S. Hanumanth Sastry , Prof. M. S. Prasada Babu

Algorithms for clustering points in metric spaces is a long-studied area of research. Clustering has seen a multitude of work both theoretically, in understanding the approximation guarantees possible for many objective functions such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Maria-Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Colin White

This study conducts a thorough examination of malware detection using machine learning techniques, focusing on the evaluation of various classification models using the Mal-API-2019 dataset. The aim is to advance cybersecurity capabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Zhenglin Li , Haibei Zhu , Houze Liu , Jintong Song , Qishuo Cheng

Clustering is a central approach for unsupervised learning. After clustering is applied, the most fundamental analysis is to quantitatively compare clusterings. Such comparisons are crucial for the evaluation of clustering methods as well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-03 Alexander J Gates , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Disease mapping is the field of spatial epidemiology interested in estimating the spatial pattern in disease risk across $n$ areal units. One aim is to identify units exhibiting elevated disease risks, so that public health interventions…

Applications · Statistics 2013-11-05 Craig Anderson , Duncan Lee , Nema Dean

AI-enabled precision medicine promises a transformational improvement in healthcare outcomes by enabling data-driven personalized diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. However, the well-known "curse of dimensionality" and the clustered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Amanda M. Buch , Conor Liston , Logan Grosenick

While clustering is ubiquitously used across science and industry, uncertainty in cluster assignments is rarely quantified with rigorous guarantees. We propose a novel conformal inference framework for clustering that returns confidence…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-13 YoonHaeng Hur , Anirban Nath , Genevera Allen

Coresets are compact representations of data sets such that models trained on a coreset are provably competitive with models trained on the full data set. As such, they have been successfully used to scale up clustering models to massive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-08 Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Andreas Krause

Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are a popular tool for assessing students' mastery of sets of skills. Given a set of $K$ skills tested on an assessment, students are classified into one of $2^K$ latent skill set profiles that represent…

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