arXiv Machine Learning

Randomizing the Number of Centers in k-means++

arXiv:2607. 26202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The $k$-means++ algorithm is a standard and widely used seeding method for $k$-means clustering, but for a fixed number $k$ of centers its worst-case expected approximation ratio is $\Theta(\log k)$.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

Incremental (k, z)-Clustering on Graphs

arXiv:2602. 08542v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Given a weighted undirected graph, a number of clusters $k$, and an exponent $z$, the goal in the $(k, z)$-clustering problem on graphs is to select $k$ vertices as centers that minimize the sum of the distances raised to the power $z$ of each vertex to its closest center.

By Emilio Cruciani, Sebastian Forster, Antonis Skarlatos
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Clustering with Non-adaptive Subset Queries

arXiv:2409. 10908v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recovering the underlying $k$-clustering of a set $U$ of $n$ points by asking pair-wise same-cluster queries has garnered significant interest in the past few years.

By Hadley Black, Euiwoong Lee, Arya Mazumdar, Barna Saha
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

An interpretable Good--Turing restart criterion for k-means++

arXiv:2607. 08243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The k-means++ algorithm is commonly restarted multiple times to avoid poor local optima, yet the number of restarts is almost always chosen arbitrarily and applied uniformly regardless of data set difficulty.

By Renato Cordeiro de Amorim
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

An interpretable Good--Turing restart criterion for k-means++

The k-means++ algorithm is commonly restarted multiple times to avoid poor local optima, yet the number of restarts is almost always chosen arbitrarily and applied uniformly regardless of data set difficulty. This undermines any comparison relying on such a choice and wastes computation on easy data sets while potentially under-serving hard ones.