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Explainable AI (XAI) is an important developing area but remains relatively understudied for clustering. We propose an explainable-by-design clustering approach that not only finds clusters but also exemplars to explain each cluster. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Ian Davidson , Michael Livanos , Antoine Gourru , Peter Walker , Julien Velcin , S. S. Ravi

Clustering is a class of unsupervised learning methods that has been extensively applied and studied in computer vision. Little work has been done to adapt it to the end-to-end training of visual features on large scale datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Matthijs Douze

One basic requirement of many studies is the necessity of classifying data. Clustering is a proposed method for summarizing networks. Clustering methods can be divided into two categories named model-based approaches and algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Raheleh Namayandeh , Farzad Didehvar , Zahra Shojaei

We study the problem of optimal estimation of the density cluster tree under various assumptions on the underlying density. Building up from the seminal work of Chaudhuri et al. [2014], we formulate a new notion of clustering consistency…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Daren Wang , Xinyang Lu , Alessandro Rinaldo

In this paper we are going to introduce a new nearest neighbours based approach to clustering, and compare it with previous solutions; the resulting algorithm, which takes inspiration from both DBscan and minimum spanning tree approaches,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Marcello La Rocca

Image clustering, which involves grouping images into different clusters without labels, is a key task in unsupervised learning. Although previous deep clustering methods have achieved remarkable results, they only explore the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haixin Zhang , Yongjun Li , Dong Huang

A clustering is an implicit assignment of labels of points, based on proximity to other points. It is these labels that are then used for downstream analysis (either focusing on individual clusters, or identifying representatives of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Parasaran Raman , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of prominent clustering algorithms K-means, DBSCAN, and Spectral Clustering on high-dimensional datasets. We introduce a novel evaluation framework that assesses clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Vishnu Vardhan Baligodugula , Fathi Amsaad

Deep clustering uncovers hidden patterns and groups in complex time series data, yet its opaque decision-making limits use in safety-critical settings. This survey offers a structured overview of explainable deep clustering for time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Udo Schlegel , Gabriel Marques Tavares , Thomas Seidl

We propose a fast and dynamic algorithm for Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) that efficiently supports online updates. Traditional DBSCAN algorithms, designed for batch processing, become computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Seiyun Shin , Ilan Shomorony , Peter Macgregor

DBSCAN is a popular density-based clustering algorithm. It computes the $\epsilon$-neighborhood graph of a dataset and uses the connected components of the high-degree nodes to decide the clusters. However, the full neighborhood graph may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Heinrich Jiang , Jennifer Jang , Jakub Łącki

Clustering is widely studied in statistics and machine learning, with applications in a variety of fields. As opposed to classical algorithms which return a single clustering solution, Bayesian nonparametric models provide a posterior over…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-11 Sara Wade , Zoubin Ghahramani

Subspace clustering aims to group data points that lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces and finds wide application in computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, and recommendation systems. However, most existing methods assume fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Huanran Li , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision and pattern recognition. Recently, deep clustering methods (algorithms based on deep learning) have attracted wide attention with their impressive performance. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yanhai Gan , Xinghui Dong , Huiyu Zhou , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

Finding meaningful groups, i.e., clusters, in high-dimensional data such as images or texts without labeled data at hand is an important challenge in data mining. In recent years, deep clustering methods have achieved remarkable results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Collin Leiber , Niklas Strauß , Matthias Schubert , Thomas Seidl

Identification of disease subtypes and corresponding biomarkers can substantially improve clinical diagnosis and treatment selection. Discovering these subtypes in noisy, high dimensional biomedical data is often impossible for humans and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-18 Marc-Andre Schulz , Matt Chapman-Rounds , Manisha Verma , Danilo Bzdok , Konstantinos Georgatzis

State-of-the-art subspace clustering methods are based on self-expressive model, which represents each data point as a linear combination of other data points. By enforcing such representation to be sparse, sparse subspace clustering is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ying Chen , Chun-Guang Li , Chong You

The widely applied density peak clustering (DPC) algorithm makes an intuitive cluster formation assumption that cluster centers are often surrounded by data points with lower local density and far away from other data points with higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yizhang Wang , Di Wang , You Zhou , Xiaofeng Zhang , Chai Quek

Clustering is the task of gathering similar data samples into clusters without using any predefined labels. It has been widely studied in machine learning literature, and recent advancements in deep learning have revived interest in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

DBSCAN has been widely used in density-based clustering algorithms. However, with the increasing demand for Multi-density clustering, previous traditional DSBCAN can not have good clustering results on Multi-density datasets. In order to…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ziqing Wang , Zhirong Ye , Yuyang Du , Yi Mao , Yanying Liu , Ziling Wu , Jun Wang