Cluster LOCO: A model-agnostic feature importance score for interpreting cluster outputs
problem Interpreting and auditing cluster outputs
method Cluster LOCO (Leave-One-Covariate-Out)
result More reliably recovers informative features than existing methods
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…
GOLFS selects features for clustering by combining global and local information.
problem Feature selection for high-dimensional clustering without labels.
method Combines global and local information via manifold learning and regularized self-representation.
result Improves feature selection and clustering accuracy.
This paper presents a new fuzzy k-means algorithm for the clustering of high-dimensional data in various subspaces. Since high-dimensional data, some features might be irrelevant and relevant but may have different significance in the clustering process. For better clustering, it is crucial to incorporate the contribut…
A method to improve clustering explainability using bagging and feature dropout.
problem Lack of explainability in clustering methods.
method Bagging and feature dropout to generate feature importance scores.
result Improved stability and robustness of cluster definition, especially in small-sample or noisy settings.
We present a nonparametric method for selecting informative features in high-dimensional clustering problems. We start with a screening step that uses a test for multimodality. Then we apply kernel density estimation and mode clustering to the selected features. The output of the method consists of a list of relevant f…
Clustering using deep autoencoders has been thoroughly investigated in recent years. Current approaches rely on simultaneously learning embedded features and clustering the data points in the latent space. Although numerous deep clustering approaches outperform the shallow models in achieving favorable results on sever…
New methods interpret clustering outcomes without altering data structure.
problem Post-processing methods destroy data integrity and obscure interpretations.
method Algorithm-agnostic interpretation methods using permutation feature importance, individual conditional expectation, and partial dependence.
result Preserves original feature structure and explains clustering outcomes.
Paper proposes a new method to learn features from error representations.
problem Learning from error representations in machine learning.
method Inverse feature learning (IFL) based on deep clustering.
result IFL leads to improved performance in classification and clustering.
New deep learning framework for tabular data clusters with interpretable features.
problem Need for reliable and interpretable clustering models for tabular data.
method Self-supervised feature selection and gate matrix for cluster-level feature selection.
result Model provides interpretable cluster assignments with driving features.
Feature selection is an important and challenging task in high dimensional clustering. For example, in genomics, there may only be a small number of genes that are differentially expressed, which are informative to the overall clustering structure. Existing feature selection methods, such as Sparse K-means, rarely tack…
Dimensionality reduction (DR) is frequently used for analyzing and visualizing high-dimensional data as it provides a good first glance of the data. However, to interpret the DR result for gaining useful insights from the data, it would take additional analysis effort such as identifying clusters and understanding thei…
Study reduces dimensions for k-means clustering for better accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy of k-means clustering with high-dimensional data. method Four randomized algorithms: two feature selection and two feature extraction.
result Provably accurate approximations of k-means clustering are obtained. Sparse GEMINI selects relevant features for clustering without assumptions.
problem Feature selection in clustering with relevant clusters and variables.
method Discriminative clustering model maximizing GEMINI with l1 penalty.
result Sparse GEMINI selects relevant subsets of variables without prior hypotheses.
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 learning has become a hot research topic in the field of hyperspectral remote s…
TDA improves FX clustering quality over traditional methods.
problem Capturing complex currency co-movements in FX markets.
method Topological Data Analysis (TDA) compared to traditional statistical methods on monthly FX returns.
result TDA-based clustering yields more compact and well-separated clusters.
In this paper we introduce three methods for re-scaling data sets aiming at improving the likelihood of clustering validity indexes to return the true number of spherical Gaussian clusters with additional noise features. Our method obtains feature re-scaling factors taking into account the structure of a given data set…
Enhances clustering quality evaluation in noisy data.
problem Reliable clustering quality assessment in noisy Gaussian mixtures.
method Feature Importance Rescaling (FIR) method.
result FIR improves correlation between cluster validity indices and ground truth.
In this paper, we present a novel unsupervised feature learning architecture, which consists of a multi-clustering integration module and a variant of RBM termed multi-clustering integration RBM (MIRBM). In the multi-clustering integration module, we apply three unsupervised K-means, affinity propagation and spectral c…
Neural clustering learns time series affinity from statistical features.
problem Challenging time series clustering with unknown cluster shapes and structures.
method Amortized neural inference using statistical features.
result Competitive clustering accuracy without manual specification of cluster shapes.
DIVI clusters noisy high-dimensional data with stable feature gating.
problem Challenging clustering in high-dimensional noisy data.
method Data-informed variational clustering framework combining global feature gating and adaptive structure growth.
result DIVI performs competitively under severe feature noise and remains computationally feasible.
We present an approach to model-based hierarchical clustering by formulating an objective function based on a Bayesian analysis. This model organizes the data into a cluster hierarchy while specifying a complex feature-set partitioning that is a key component of our model. Features can have either a unique distribution…
Graph clustering groups entities -- the vertices of a graph -- based on their similarity, typically using a complex distance function over a large number of features. Successful integration of clustering approaches in automated decision-support systems hinges on the interpretability of the resulting clusters. This pape…
Cluster stability selection improves feature selection in correlated data.
problem Feature selection stability in correlated data.
method Cluster stability selection exploiting known cluster structure.
result Better predictive performance than lasso alone and stability selection.
Proposes a semi-supervised K-Means algorithm for better feature selection.
problem Data clustering with unknown feature quality and limited labelled data.
method Combines unsupervised sparse clustering and semi-supervised learning with labelled data.
result The algorithm identifies informative features and maintains high performance.
Study clusters bank customers using LSTM and DTW.
problem Efficiently segmenting bank customers for targeted offers.
method Encoder-decoder LSTM network and Dynamic Time Warping (DTW).
result Hybrid method yields more accurate clusters.
Robust feature-weighted jump models for time-dependent clustering
problem Temporal clustering
method Robust feature-weighted jump model
result Accurate recovery of true cluster sequence and feature identification
The paper investigates how irrelevant features affect clustering performance.
problem The challenge of identifying relevant features in unsupervised clustering tasks.
method Investigation of clustering performance with added irrelevant features.
result Different types of irrelevant features impact clustering outcomes differently.
Proposes a method for multi-view clustering that considers local structures and feature weights.
problem Challenges in effectively exploiting complementary information across multiple views.
method Simultaneously assigns weights to different features and captures local information in view-specific feature spaces.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.
DIVA clusters dynamic data without needing cluster count, outperforming baselines.
problem Clustering complex, dynamic data without prior knowledge of cluster count.
method Nonparametric Dirichlet Process Mixtures with memoized online variational inference.
result DIVA outperforms state-of-the-art in classifying complex data with changing features.
Improved BIRCH clustering method to avoid numeric issues.
problem Numeric instability in BIRCH clustering.
method Introduced a new cluster feature to replace the sum of squares, avoiding catastrophic cancellation.
result The new method is more numerically stable and efficient.
Study automates feature selection and clustering for HFT stock price forecasting.
problem Manual feature selection and clustering for high-frequency trading (HFT) stock price forecasting.
method Dual competitive feature importance mechanism and clustering via shallow neural network topology.
result Enhanced forecasting ability of the RBFNN regressor through automated feature selection and clustering.
Efficient algorithms for clustered Lasso and OSCAR reduce computational costs.
problem High dimensional regression with feature clustering.
method Efficient path algorithms for clustered Lasso and OSCAR, reducing computational costs.
result Proposed algorithms are more efficient than existing methods in numerical experiments.
In the past decades, spectral clustering (SC) has become one of the most effective clustering algorithms. However, most previous studies focus on spectral clustering tasks with a fixed task set, which cannot incorporate with a new spectral clustering task without accessing to previously learned tasks. In this paper, we…
DiSC detects feature clusters that differentiate between conditions.
problem Identifying subsets of features that differentiate between two conditions.
method Construct feature graphs, compute connectivity differences using spectral clustering.
result DiSC uncovers features that better differentiate between conditions.
IMPACC improves consensus clustering for bioinformatics data.
problem Consensus clustering's inefficiency and lack of interpretability for large-scale data.
method Ensemble minipatch co-occurrences, adaptive sampling of observations and features.
result Significantly improved accuracy and interpretability with substantial computational savings.
Convex clustering, a convex relaxation of k-means clustering and hierarchical clustering, has drawn recent attentions since it nicely addresses the instability issue of traditional nonconvex clustering methods. Although its computational and statistical properties have been recently studied, the performance of convex c…
Paper proposes a novel unsupervised feature selection method using K-means and ADMM.
problem Finding a subset of features for high-dimensional unsupervised learning problems.
method Developed K-means Derived Unsupervised Feature Selection (K-means UFS) using ADMM to solve NP-hard optimization.
result K-means UFS outperforms baselines in feature selection for clustering.
Multi-view clustering is a learning paradigm based on multi-view data. Since statistic properties of different views are diverse, even incompatible, few approaches implement multi-view clustering based on the concatenated features straightforward. However, feature concatenation is a natural way to combine multi-view da…
Unsupervised clustering can reproduce categorization systems if features and metrics are correctly selected.
problem Reproducing expert-provided categorization systems using unsupervised clustering.
method Investigated using toy datasets and real-world fund categorization. Used appropriate feature selection and a supervised Random Forest-based distance metric.
result Unsupervised clustering can reproduce ground truth classes if features and metrics are correctly selected.
RAEUFS selects features from data without labels, improving robustness to outliers.
problem Feature selection in high-dimensional data, especially in the presence of outliers.
method RAEUFS uses a deep autoencoder to learn nonlinear feature representations, improving robustness to outliers.
result RAEUFS outperforms state-of-the-art UFS methods in both clean and outlier-contaminated data settings.
DMFAW improves multi-view clustering with adaptive weights and feature selection.
problem Lack of effective feature selection and empirical hyperparameter selection in existing deep matrix factorization methods.
method Introduces Deep Matrix Factorization with Adaptive Weights (DMFAW) for multi-view clustering, incorporating feature selection and dynamically updating weights using Control Theory.
result DMFAW outperforms state-of-the-art methods in clustering performance.
A feature-weighted mean shift algorithm improves clustering in high-dimensional data.
problem Clustering high-dimensional data with traditional mean shift algorithms.
method Feature-weighted mean shift algorithm.
result The algorithm outperforms conventional mean shift and preserves computational simplicity.
Recently, deep clustering, which is able to perform feature learning that favors clustering tasks via deep neural networks, has achieved remarkable performance in image clustering applications. However, the existing deep clustering algorithms generally need the number of clusters in advance, which is usually unknown in…
Algorithm clusters items by sequentially selecting features, minimizing observations.
problem Clustering items based on bandit feedback with many features.
method Sequential Halving algorithm for feature selection.
result Accurate recovery of item partition with minimal observations.
Spectral clustering is one of the most effective clustering approaches that capture hidden cluster structures in the data. However, it does not scale well to large-scale problems due to its quadratic complexity in constructing similarity graphs and computing subsequent eigendecomposition. Although a number of methods h…
Proposes Contrastive Clustering for improved clustering performance.
problem Improving clustering performance on various datasets.
method Instance- and cluster-level contrastive learning through data augmentations and feature space projections.
result Contrastive Clustering achieves significant improvements over 17 competitive methods.
New algorithm clusters sparse data effectively.
problem Challenges in clustering sparse data.
method Deterministic Information Bottleneck framework for joint feature weighting and clustering.
result Demonstrated effectiveness on real-world genomics data.