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The existence of large volumes of time series data in many applications has motivated data miners to investigate specialized methods for mining time series data. Clustering is a popular data mining method due to its powerful exploratory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Fateme Fahiman , Jame C. Bezdek , Sarah M. Erfani , Christopher Leckie , Marimuthu Palaniswami

Both FCM and PCM clustering methods have been widely applied to pattern recognition and data clustering. Nevertheless, FCM is sensitive to noise and PCM occasionally generates coincident clusters. PFCM is an extension of the PCM model by…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-25 Shahabeddin Sotudian , Mohammad Hossein Fazel Zarandi

In this paper, we take a new look at the possibilistic c-means (PCM) and adaptive PCM (APCM) clustering algorithms from the perspective of uncertainty. This new perspective offers us insights into the clustering process, and also provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Peixin Hou , Hao Deng , Jiguang Yue , Shuguang Liu

Federated Learning (FL) is a setting where multiple parties with distributed data collaborate in training a joint Machine Learning (ML) model while keeping all data local at the parties. Federated clustering is an area of research within FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Morris Stallmann , Anna Wilbik

Clustering multivariate time series data is a crucial task in many domains, as it enables the identification of meaningful patterns and groups in time-evolving data. Traditional approaches, such as crisp clustering, rely on the assumption…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-05 Ziling Ma , Ángel López-Oriona , Hernando Ombao , Ying Sun

With the membership function being strictly positive, the conventional fuzzy c-means clustering method sometimes causes imbalanced influence when clusters of vastly different sizes exist. That is, an outstandingly large cluster drags to its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-28 Akira R. Kinjo , Daphne Teck Ching Lai

Persistence diagrams concisely represent the topology of a point cloud whilst having strong theoretical guarantees, but the question of how to best integrate this information into machine learning workflows remains open. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Thomas Davies , Jack Aspinall , Bryan Wilder , Long Tran-Thanh

Multi-view data clustering refers to categorizing a data set by making good use of related information from multiple representations of the data. It becomes important nowadays because more and more data can be collected in a variety of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Yangtao Wang , Lihui Chen

In a data matrix, we may distinguish between cases, each represented by a row vector for a statistical unit, and cells, which correspond to single entries of the data matrix. Recent developments in Robust Statistics have introduced the…

A novel initialization method in the fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm is proposed for the color clustering problem. Given a set of color points, the proposed initialization extracts dominant colors that are the most vivid and distinguishable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Dae-Won Kim , Kwang H. Lee

Possibilistic fuzzy c-means (PFCM) algorithm is a reliable algorithm has been proposed to deal the weakness of two popular algorithms for clustering, fuzzy c-means (FCM) and possibilistic c-means (PCM). PFCM algorithm deals with the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Rustam , Koredianto Usman , Mudyawati Kamaruddin , Dina Chamidah , Nopendri , Khaerudin Saleh , Yulinda Eliskar , Ismail Marzuki

The traditional prototype based clustering methods, such as the well-known fuzzy c-mean (FCM) algorithm, usually need sufficient data to find a good clustering partition. If the available data is limited or scarce, most of the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Zhaohong Deng , Yizhang Jiang , Fu-Lai Chung , Hisao Ishibuchi , Kup-Sze Choi , Shitong Wang

We extend the standard rough set-based approach to deal with huge amounts of numeric attributes versus small amount of available objects. Here, a novel approach of clustering along with dimensionality reduction; Hybrid Fuzzy C Means-Quick…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-06-11 E. N. Sathishkumar , K. Thangavel , T. Chandrasekhar

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) are considered a soft computing technique combining elements of fuzzy logic and recurrent neural networks. They found multiple application in such domains as modeling of system behavior, prediction of time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Piotr Szwed

In this paper we present clustering method is very sensitive to the initial center values, requirements on the data set too high, and cannot handle noisy data the proposal method is using information entropy to initialize the cluster…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-04-12 K. Suresh

Clustering plays an important role in mining big data both as a modeling technique and a preprocessing step in many data mining process implementations. Fuzzy clustering provides more flexibility than non-fuzzy methods by allowing each data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Nasser Ghadiri , Meysam Ghaffari , Mohammad Amin Nikbakht

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

Distributional (or distribution-valued) data are a new type of data arising from several sources and are considered as realizations of distributional variables. A new set of fuzzy c-means algorithms for data described by distributional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-03 Antonio Irpino , Francisco De Carvalho , Rosanna Verde

Statistical jump models have been recently introduced to detect persistent regimes by clustering temporal features and discouraging frequent regime changes. However, they are limited to hard clustering and thereby do not account for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-01 Federico P. Cortese , Antonio Pievatolo , Elisa Maria Alessi

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