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In this paper we offer a new perspective on the well established agglomerative clustering algorithm, focusing on recovery of hierarchical structure. We recommend a simple variant of the standard algorithm, in which clusters are merged by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Annie Gray , Alexander Modell , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy , Nick Whiteley

We present a new clustering method in the form of a single clustering equation that is able to directly discover groupings in the data. The main proposition is that the first neighbor of each sample is all one needs to discover large chains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 M. Saquib Sarfraz , Vivek Sharma , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Convex clustering is a well-regarded clustering method, resembling the similar centroid-based approach of Lloyd's $k$-means, without requiring a predefined cluster count. It starts with each data point as its centroid and iteratively merges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Shubhayan Pan , Kushal Bose , Debolina Paul , Saptarshi Chakraborty , Swagatam Das

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

We introduce a novel criterion in clustering that seeks clusters with limited range of values associated with each cluster's elements. In clustering or classification the objective is to partition a set of objects into subsets, called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Dorit S. Hochbaum

This paper explores the problem of clustering ensemble, which aims to combine multiple base clusterings to produce better performance than that of the individual one. The existing clustering ensemble methods generally construct a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Qingfu Zhang

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…

The Minimum Quartet Tree Cost problem is to construct an optimal weight tree from the $3{n \choose 4}$ weighted quartet topologies on $n$ objects, where optimality means that the summed weight of the embedded quartet topologies is optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Rudi L. Cilibrasi , Paul M. B. Vitanyi

Convex clustering is a modern clustering framework that guarantees globally optimal solutions and performs comparably to other advanced clustering methods. However, obtaining a complete dendrogram (clusterpath) for large-scale datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Bingyuan Zhang , Yoshikazu Terada

Similarity-based clustering and semi-supervised learning methods separate the data into clusters or classes according to the pairwise similarity between the data, and the pairwise similarity is crucial for their performance. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-06 Yingzhen Yang , Feng Liang , Nebojsa Jojic , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng , Thomas S. Huang

The ability to precisely quantify similarity between various entities has been a fundamental complication in various problem spaces specifically in the classification of cellular images. Contemporary similarity measures applied in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 D Yoan L. Mekontchou Yomba

Density based spatial clustering of points in $\mathbb{R}^n$ has a myriad of applications in a variety of industries. We generalise this problem to the density based clustering of lines in high-dimensional spaces, keeping in mind there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Akanksha Das , Malay Bhattacharyya

This paper studies the hierarchical clustering problem, where the goal is to produce a dendrogram that represents clusters at varying scales of a data set. We propose the ParChain framework for designing parallel hierarchical agglomerative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Shangdi Yu , Yiqiu Wang , Yan Gu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Dynamic tensor data are becoming prevalent in numerous applications. Existing tensor clustering methods either fail to account for the dynamic nature of the data, or are inapplicable to a general-order tensor. Also there is often a gap…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-17 Will Wei Sun , Lexin Li

A recently proposed clustering method, called the Nearest Descent (ND), can organize the whole dataset into a sparsely connected graph, called the In-tree. This ND-based Intree structure proves able to reveal the clustering structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Teng Qiu , Yongjie Li

Dimension reduction is widely regarded as an effective way for decreasing the computation, storage and communication loads of data-driven intelligent systems, leading to a growing demand for statistical methods that allow analysis (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Guangcan Liu , Zhao Zhang , Qingshan Liu , Kongkai Xiong

Clustering in high-dimensions poses many statistical challenges. While traditional distance-based clustering methods are computationally feasible, they lack probabilistic interpretation and rely on heuristics for estimation of the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-04 Abhinav Natarajan , Maria De Iorio , Andreas Heinecke , Emanuel Mayer , Simon Glenn

We propose a new method for hierarchical clustering based on the optimisation of a cost function over trees of limited depth, and we derive a message--passing method that allows to solve it efficiently. The method and algorithm can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Bailly-Bechet , S. Bradde , A. Braunstein , A. Flaxman , L. Foini , R. Zecchina

Convex clustering is a modern method with both hierarchical and $k$-means clustering characteristics. Although convex clustering can capture complex clustering structures hidden in data, the existing convex clustering algorithms are not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Daniel J. W. Touw , Patrick J. F. Groenen , Yoshikazu Terada

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