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This paper addresses clustering with missing data using Rubin's rules.
Proposes ConiVAT for better cluster assessment and clustering with background knowledge.
A new measure identifies clusters without assuming data distribution.
Assessment of risk levels for existing credit accounts is important to the implementation of bank policies and offering financial products. This paper uses cluster analysis of behaviour of credit card accounts to help assess credit risk level. Account behaviour is modelled parametrically and we then implement the behav…
A cluster tree provides a highly-interpretable summary of a density function by representing the hierarchy of its high-density clusters. It is estimated using the empirical tree, which is the cluster tree constructed from a density estimator. This paper addresses the basic question of quantifying our uncertainty by ass…
Q-learning with cSMART data assesses cAI tailoring variables.
We assess cluster stability by trimming extreme points and tracking data range reduction.
Benchmark study evaluates 8 clustering methods on 99 UCR time series datasets.
ElbowSig assesses clustering structure at multiple scales.
Improved market state classification for risk assessment.
Hierarchical graph clustering is a common technique to reveal the multi-scale structure of complex networks. We propose a novel metric for assessing the quality of a hierarchical clustering. This metric reflects the ability to reconstruct the graph from the dendrogram, which encodes the hierarchy. The optimal represent…
In this article we propose a novel measure of systemic risk in the context of financial networks. To this aim, we provide a definition of systemic risk which is based on the structure, developed at different levels, of clustered neighbours around the nodes of the network. The proposed measure incorporates the generaliz…
We present two related methods for deriving connectivity-based brain atlases from individual connectomes. The proposed methods exploit a previously proposed dense connectivity representation, termed continuous connectivity, by first performing graph-based hierarchical clustering of individual brains, and subsequently a…
This research evaluates and introduces new heuristics for clustering Bitcoin blockchain entities.
ERICA assesses reproducibility in cluster analysis.
We present in this paper an empirical framework motivated by the practitioner point of view on stability. The goal is to both assess clustering validity and yield market insights by providing through the data perturbations we propose a multi-view of the assets' clustering behaviour. The perturbation framework is illust…
This study evaluates clustering algorithms on high-dimensional data.
Software package assesses spherical data distributions and clusters.
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…
Bayesian Supervised Causal Clustering identifies patient subgroups for personalized decision-making.
Hierarchical clustering has been shown to be valuable in many scenarios. Despite its usefulness to many situations, there is no agreed methodology on how to properly evaluate the hierarchies produced from different techniques, particularly in the case where ground-truth labels are unavailable. This motivates us to prop…
New criterion assesses cluster separability for validation.
Clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis, and spectral clustering has been recognized as a promising approach to it. Given a graph describing the relationship between data, spectral clustering explores the underlying cluster structure in two stages. The first stage embeds the nodes of the graph in real space, …
Paper models treatment effects by clustering patients with distinct survival characteristics.
The paper explores fair clustering, a niche area in machine learning.
ClusterLOB clusters market events to identify different trading behaviors.
ERICA assesses replicability of cluster analysis results.
Model-based clustering is widely-used in a variety of application areas. However, fundamental concerns remain about robustness. In particular, results can be sensitive to the choice of kernel representing the within-cluster data density. Leveraging on properties of pairwise differences between data points, we propose a…
The paper assesses conditions for the uniqueness of k-means clustering.
In this work we present a clustering technique called \textit{multi-level conformal clustering (MLCC)}. The technique is hierarchical in nature because it can be performed at multiple significance levels which yields greater insight into the data than performing it at just one level. We describe the theoretical underpi…
A unified clustering approach that can estimate number of clusters and produce clustering against this number simultaneously is proposed. Average silhouette width (ASW) is a widely used standard cluster quality index. A distance based objective function that optimizes ASW for clustering is defined. The proposed algorit…
Quantum Clustering is a powerful method to detect clusters in data with mixed density. However, it is very sensitive to a length parameter that is inherent to the Schrödinger equation. In addition, linking data points into clusters requires local estimates of covariance that are also controlled by length parameters. Th…
Clustering is a central approach for unsupervised learning. After clustering is applied, the most fundamental analysis is to quantitatively compare clusterings. Such comparisons are crucial for the evaluation of clustering methods as well as other tasks such as consensus clustering. It is often argued that, in order to…
Proposes DISCO, the first CVI for density-based clustering with noise.
Distributed processing over networks relies on in-network processing and cooperation among neighboring agents. Cooperation is beneficial when agents share a common objective. However, in many applications agents may belong to different clusters that pursue different objectives. Then, indiscriminate cooperation will lea…
A method to improve clustering explainability using bagging and feature dropout.
Advances neural tri-factorization for clustering and discordance analysis of multi-typed data.
A recent trend in machine learning has been to enrich learned models with the ability to explain their own predictions. The emerging field of Explainable AI (XAI) has so far mainly focused on supervised learning, in particular, deep neural network classifiers. In many practical problems however, label information is no…
A new method clusters complex networks using topological and geometric structure.
In several application domains, high-dimensional observations are collected and then analysed in search for naturally occurring data clusters which might provide further insights about the nature of the problem. In this paper we describe a new approach for partitioning such high-dimensional data. Our assumption is that…
The stochastic block model (SBM) is a flexible probabilistic tool that can be used to model interactions between clusters of nodes in a network. However, it does not account for interactions of time varying intensity between clusters. The extension of the SBM developed in this paper addresses this shortcoming through a…
Identifying customer segments in retail banking portfolios with different risk profiles can improve the accuracy of credit scoring. The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) has shown promising results in different research domains, and it has been documented the powerful information embedded in the latent space of the VAE. We…
Randomized hierarchical clustering tests for stability and detects clusters.
Study proposes a statistical testing framework for evaluating clustering pipelines.
The precise diagnosis is of great significance in developing precise treatment plans to restore neck function and reduce the burden posed by the cervical spondylosis (CS). However, the current available neck function assessment method are subjective and coarse-grained. In this paper, based on the relationship among CS,…
Radar sensors provide a unique method for executing environmental perception tasks towards autonomous driving. Especially their capability to perform well in adverse weather conditions often makes them superior to other sensors such as cameras or lidar. Nevertheless, the high sparsity and low dimensionality of the comm…
Paper develops a novel approach to identify clusters of features in multivariate extremes.