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New research highlights flaws in evaluating clustering algorithms using classification datasets.
The paper explores fair clustering, a niche area in machine learning.
Mixed data comprises both numeric and categorical features, and mixed datasets occur frequently in many domains, such as health, finance, and marketing. Clustering is often applied to mixed datasets to find structures and to group similar objects for further analysis. However, clustering mixed data is challenging becau…
Estimates statistical power for cluster analysis in biomedical research.
Quality assessments of models in unsupervised learning and clustering verification in particular have been a long-standing problem in the machine learning research. The lack of robust and universally applicable cluster validity scores often makes the algorithm selection and hyperparameter evaluation a tough guess. In t…
This paper automates mining of COVID-19 scholarly articles using machine learning.
Researchers use clustering to differentiate COVID-19 lung scans.
New deep clustering network uses divergence measures for unlabeled data.
Benchmark study evaluates 8 clustering methods on 99 UCR time series datasets.
latrend simplifies longitudinal clustering for numeric measurements.
A novel weighted distance improves fuzzy c-means clustering accuracy.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) produces data about activity inside the brain, from which spatial maps can be extracted by independent component analysis (ICA). In datasets, there are n spatial maps that contain p voxels. The number of voxels is very high compared to the number of analyzed spatial maps. Cl…
Paper presents a novel k-means clustering method using two distance measures for Gaussian data.
Research uses machine learning to find central nodes and cliques in YouTube social networks.
A tutorial on various methods for clustering longitudinal data.
Traditionally it had been a problem that researchers did not have access to enough spatial data to answer pressing research questions or build compelling visualizations. Today, however, the problem is often that we have too much data. Spatially redundant or approximately redundant points may refer to a single feature (…
Extracting significant places or places of interest (POIs) using individuals' spatio-temporal data is of fundamental importance for human mobility analysis. Classical clustering methods have been used in prior work for detecting POIs, but without considering temporal constraints. Usually, the involved parameters for cl…
Error-robust multi-view clustering tackles noisy data across multiple sources.
We review the state of the art of clustering financial time series and the study of their correlations alongside other interaction networks. The aim of this review is to gather in one place the relevant material from different fields, e.g. machine learning, information geometry, econophysics, statistical physics, econo…
Ensemble clustering has been a popular research topic in data mining and machine learning. Despite its significant progress in recent years, there are still two challenging issues in the current ensemble clustering research. First, most of the existing algorithms tend to investigate the ensemble information at the obje…
The paper extends fairness to hierarchical clustering, finding efficient algorithms with minimal loss.
Vertex clustering in a stochastic blockmodel graph has wide applicability and has been the subject of extensive research. In thispaper, we provide a short proof that the adjacency spectral embedding can be used to obtain perfect clustering for the stochastic blockmodel and the degree-corrected stochastic blockmodel. We…
CSTS benchmarks time series clustering by evaluating correlation structures.
Benchmarked over 70 graph clustering algorithms.
With rapidly increasing data, clustering algorithms are important tools for data analytics in modern research. They have been successfully applied to a wide range of domains; for instance, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and financial analysis. Formally speaking, given a set of data instances, a clustering algorith…
A new clustering algorithm fuses heat diffusion and turning angle for robustness.
This study evaluates clustering algorithms on high-dimensional data.
Model-based clustering is a popular approach for clustering multivariate data which has seen applications in numerous fields. Nowadays, high-dimensional data are more and more common and the model-based clustering approach has adapted to deal with the increasing dimensionality. In particular, the development of variabl…
The problem of finding groups in data (cluster analysis) has been extensively studied by researchers from the fields of Statistics and Computer Science, among others. However, despite its popularity it is widely recognized that the investigation of some theoretical aspects of clustering has been relatively sparse. One …
The area of constrained clustering has been extensively explored by researchers and used by practitioners. Constrained clustering formulations exist for popular algorithms such as k-means, mixture models, and spectral clustering but have several limitations. A fundamental strength of deep learning is its flexibility, a…
Proposes SAG-DBSCAN for clustering with self-adaptation.
Researchers have used from 30 days to several years of daily returns as source data for clustering financial time series based on their correlations. This paper sets up a statistical framework to study the validity of such practices. We first show that clustering correlated random variables from their observed values i…
This research evaluates and introduces new heuristics for clustering Bitcoin blockchain entities.
Unified approach for non-stationary and clustered bandits.
This paper analyzes various graph clustering methods and their applications.
The paper clusters PK curves using ML, finding it useful for identifying similar patterns.
There has been a surge in the number of large and flat data sets - data sets containing a large number of features and a relatively small number of observations - due to the growing ability to collect and store information in medical research and other fields. Hierarchical clustering is a widely used clustering tool. I…
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 neural networks. We base our taxonomy on a comprehensive review of recent work and v…
Paper proposes a quantum deep clustering framework with improved performance.
Clustering is an extensive research area in data science. The aim of clustering is to discover groups and to identify interesting patterns in datasets. Crisp (hard) clustering considers that each data point belongs to one and only one cluster. However, it is inadequate as some data points may belong to several clusters…
Study examines scientific research on Bitcoin across various disciplines.
New method uses synthetic data to validate financial agent classification.
Clustering is one of the most common unsupervised learning tasks in machine learning and data mining. Clustering algorithms have been used in a plethora of applications across several scientific fields. However, there has been limited research in the clustering of point patterns - sets or multi-sets of unordered elemen…
A novel clustering algorithm inspired by atomic fission.
We present a methodology for clustering N objects which are described by multivariate time series, i.e. several sequences of real-valued random variables. This clustering methodology leverages copulas which are distributions encoding the dependence structure between several random variables. To take fully into account …
Detecting stellar clusters have always been an important research problem in Astronomy. Although images do not convey very detailed information in detecting stellar density enhancements, we attempt to understand if new machine learning techniques can reveal patterns that would assist in drawing better inferences from t…
AutoEmbedder clusters unlabeled data using semi-supervised DNN embedding.
New k-means method handles random data better than traditional techniques.