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Clustering has been a major research topic in the field of machine learning, one to which Deep Learning has recently been applied with significant success. However, an aspect of clustering that is not addressed by existing deep clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

Clustering is a popular unsupervised learning tool often used to discover groups within a larger population such as customer segments, or patient subtypes. However, despite its use as a tool for subgroup discovery and description - few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Connor Lawless , Jayant Kalagnanam , Lam M. Nguyen , Dzung Phan , Chandra Reddy

We present a new theoretical and numerical assessment methodology for a one-dimensional process chain with general applicability to management problems such as the optimization of decision chains or production chains. The process is thereby…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-12-04 Johannes Freiesleben , Nicolas Guérin

Clustering algorithms are widely utilized for many modern data science applications. This motivates the need to make outputs of clustering algorithms fair. Traditionally, new fair algorithmic variants to clustering algorithms are developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Anshuman Chhabra , Adish Singla , Prasant Mohapatra

Mixture models extend the toolbox of clustering methods available to the data analyst. They allow for an explicit definition of the cluster shapes and structure within a probabilistic framework and exploit estimation and inference…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-15 Bettina Grün

Clustering uncertain data has emerged as a challenging task in uncertain data management and mining. Thanks to a computational complexity advantage over other clustering paradigms, partitional clustering has been particularly studied and a…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Francesco Gullo , Andrea Tagarelli

A model based clustering procedure for data of mixed type, clustMD, is developed using a latent variable model. It is proposed that a latent variable, following a mixture of Gaussian distributions, generates the observed data of mixed type.…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-06 Damien McParland , Isobel Claire Gormley

Problem statement: Clustering has a number of techniques that have been developed in statistics, pattern recognition, data mining, and other fields. Subspace clustering enumerates clusters of objects in all subspaces of a dataset. It tends…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-09-03 Rahmat Widia Sembiring , Jasni Mohamad Zain , Abdullah Embong

The clustering of categorical data is a common and important task in computer science, offering profound implications across a spectrum of applications. Unlike purely numerical data, categorical data often lack inherent ordering as in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tai Dinh , Wong Hauchi , Philippe Fournier-Viger , Daniil Lisik , Minh-Quyet Ha , Hieu-Chi Dam , Van-Nam Huynh

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

Clustering methods based on deep neural networks have proven promising for clustering real-world data because of their high representational power. In this paper, we propose a systematic taxonomy of clustering methods that utilize deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Elie Aljalbout , Vladimir Golkov , Yawar Siddiqui , Maximilian Strobel , Daniel Cremers

The goal of data clustering is to partition data points into groups to minimize a given objective function. While most existing clustering algorithms treat each data point as vector, in many applications each datum is not a vector but a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-16 Dinh Phung , Ba-Ngu Bo

Bi-clustering is a useful approach in analyzing biological data when observations come from heterogeneous groups and have a large number of features. We outline a general Bayesian approach in tackling bi-clustering problems in moderate to…

Applications · Statistics 2021-02-11 Han Yan , Jiexing Wu , Yang Li , Jun S. Liu

Topological data analysis is a relatively new branch of machine learning that excels in studying high dimensional data, and is theoretically known to be robust against noise. Meanwhile, data objects with mixed numeric and categorical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Chengyuan Wu , Carol Anne Hargreaves

We propose a novel method for multiple clustering that assumes a co-clustering structure (partitions in both rows and columns of the data matrix) in each view. The new method is applicable to high-dimensional data. It is based on a…

A hierarchical scheme for clustering data is presented which applies to spaces with a high number of dimension ($N_{_{D}}>3$). The data set is first reduced to a smaller set of partitions (multi-dimensional bins). Multiple clustering…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-10-16 Kevin McIlhany , Stephen Wiggins

Clustering is an unsupervised learning problem that aims to partition unlabelled data points into groups with similar features. Traditional clustering algorithms provide limited insight into the groups they find as their main focus is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

Topological methods have the potential of exploring data clouds without making assumptions on their the structure. Here we propose a hierarchical topological clustering algorithm that can be implemented with any distance choice. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ana Carpio , Gema Duro

Clustering of high-dimensional data sets is a growing need in artificial intelligence, machine learning and pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose a new clustering method based on a combinatorial-topological approach applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mauricio Toledo-Acosta , Luis Ángel Ramos-García , Jorge Hermosillo-Valadez

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