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We study the clustering problem for mixtures of bounded covariance distributions, under a fine-grained separation assumption. Specifically, given samples from a $k$-component mixture distribution $D = \sum_{i =1}^k w_i P_i$, where each $w_i…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Jasper C. H. Lee , Thanasis Pittas

Deep learning methods are primarily proposed for supervised learning of images or text with limited applications to clustering problems. In contrast, tabular data with heterogeneous features pose unique challenges in representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Shourav B. Rabbani , Ivan V. Medri , Manar D. Samad

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

Determining the number of clusters is a central challenge in unsupervised learning, where ground-truth labels are unavailable. The Silhouette coefficient is a widely used internal validation metric for this task, yet its standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Aggelos Semoglou , Aristidis Likas , John Pavlopoulos

We consider the problem of clustering a set of high-dimensional data points into sets of low-dimensional linear subspaces. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are unknown. We propose a simple and low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

The high dimensionality of hyperspectral images often results in the degradation of clustering performance. Due to the powerful ability of deep feature extraction and non-linear feature representation, the clustering algorithm based on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jinguang Sun , Wanli Wang , Xian Wei , Li Fang , Xiaoliang Tang , Yusheng Xu , Hui Yu , Wei Yao

We address the problem of un-supervised soft-clustering called micro-clustering. The aim of the problem is to enumerate all groups composed of records strongly related to each other, while standard clustering methods separate records at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Takeaki Uno , Hiroki Maegawa , Takanobu Nakahara , Yukinobu Hamuro , Ryo Yoshinaka , Makoto Tatsuta

The analysis of continously larger datasets is a task of major importance in a wide variety of scientific fields. In this sense, cluster analysis algorithms are a key element of exploratory data analysis, due to their easiness in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-10 Marco Capó , Aritz Pérez , Jose A. Lozano

Clustering artworks is difficult for several reasons. On the one hand, recognizing meaningful patterns in accordance with domain knowledge and visual perception is extremely difficult. On the other hand, applying traditional clustering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Giovanna Castellano , Gennaro Vessio

Clustering multi-view data has been a fundamental research topic in the computer vision community. It has been shown that a better accuracy can be achieved by integrating information of all the views than just using one view individually.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Ming Yin , Weitian Huang , Junbin Gao

Subspace clustering has become widely adopted for the unsupervised analysis of hyperspectral images (HSIs). Recent model-aware deep subspace clustering methods often use a two-stage framework, involving the calculation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xianlu Li , Nicolas Nadisic , Shaoguang Huang , Nikos Deligiannis , Aleksandra Pižurica

Unsupervised learning has gained prominence in the big data era, offering a means to extract valuable insights from unlabeled datasets. Deep clustering has emerged as an important unsupervised category, aiming to exploit the non-linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Georgios Vardakas , Ioannis Papakostas , Aristidis Likas

We propose an algorithm for clustering high dimensional data. If $P$ features for $N$ objects are represented in an $N\times P$ matrix ${\bf X}$, where $N\ll P$, the method is based on exploiting the cluster-dependent structure of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-05 Shahina Rahman , Valen E. Johnson

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

Clustering is a well-studied unsupervised learning task that aims to partition data points into a number of clusters. In many applications, these clusters correspond to real-world constructs (e.g., electoral districts, playlists, TV…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

Numerous papers ask how difficult it is to cluster data. We suggest that the more relevant and interesting question is how difficult it is to cluster data sets {\em that can be clustered well}. More generally, despite the ubiquity and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Amit Daniely , Nati Linial , Michael Saks

The discrete distribution clustering algorithm, namely D2-clustering, has demonstrated its usefulness in image classification and annotation where each object is represented by a bag of weighed vectors. The high computational complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Yu Zhang , James Z. Wang , Jia Li

Modern inference and learning often hinge on identifying low-dimensional structures that approximate large scale data. Subspace clustering achieves this through a union of linear subspaces. However, in contemporary applications data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Daniel L. Pimentel-Alarcón , Usman Mahmood

Fair clustering is the process of grouping similar entities together, while satisfying a mathematically well-defined fairness metric as a constraint. Due to the practical challenges in precise model specification, the prescribed fairness…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-09 Sainyam Galhotra , Sandhya Saisubramanian , Shlomo Zilberstein

High-order clustering aims to identify heterogeneous substructures in multiway datasets that arise commonly in neuroimaging, genomics, social network studies, etc. The non-convex and discontinuous nature of this problem pose significant…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-11 Rungang Han , Yuetian Luo , Miaoyan Wang , Anru R. Zhang