arXiv:2508. 00110v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Functional data present unique challenges for clustering due to their infinite-dimensional nature and potential sensitivity to outliers.
The paper introduces a method for clustering matrix-variate normal data that accounts for outliers. It extends the OCLUST algorithm by employing subset log-likelihood distributions and an iterative trimming procedure. This approach enables robust clustering of complex structured data such as images and time series.
The paper introduces a multivariate pseudo‑Voigt mixture model, combining Gaussian and Cauchy components with shared location and scale parameters, for robust clustering and outlier detection. Parameter estimation is performed using an EM algorithm that leverages latent variables for efficient likelihood inference. The authors evaluate the model through simulations and real data, comparing it to established robust mixtures such as contaminated normals, and demonstrate its effectiveness on heavy‑tailed datasets.
arXiv:2510. 24043v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents Two-Stage LKPLO, a novel multi-stage outlier detection framework that overcomes the coexisting limitations of conventional projection-based methods: their reliance on a fixed statistical metric and their assumption of a single data structure.
arXiv:2606. 18833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a semi-supervised clustering framework grounded in the statistical duality between grouping principles and anomaly detection.
arXiv:2510. 06505v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection plays a crucial role in ensuring the robustness of machine learning systems deployed in real-world applications.
arXiv:2511. 17823v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Clustering algorithms have long been the topic of research, representing the more popular side of unsupervised learning.
arXiv:2606. 19255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series anomaly detection plays a crucial role in a wide range of real-world applications.
arXiv:2608.30093v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce a robust clustering method, MK-means DPD, that estimates cluster centers and covariance matrices using density power divergence (DPD) me...
The paper introduces a framework for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection that addresses the trade‑off between detection performance and classification accuracy caused by fine‑tuning with auxiliary outlier data. It optimizes three factors—model reminder, data sampling, and representation learning—by proposing Self‑Knowledge Distillation to preserve accuracy, Semi‑hard Outlier Sampling to enhance detection with minimal data, and Outlier‑aware Supervised Contrastive Learning to improve ID‑OOD separability. The combined approach yields cumulative gains, outperforming existing methods on diverse benchmarks, especially in long‑tailed scenarios, and offers a robust baseline for real‑world OOD detection.
arXiv:2607. 24537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the Big Data era, the scalability of clustering algorithms constitutes a key challenge.
The paper "Mixed Data Clustering Survey and Challenges" discusses how the rise of big data has made clustering of heterogeneous datasets—containing both numerical and categorical variables—particularly difficult for traditional methods. It highlights the importance of hierarchical and explainable algorithms for producing interpretable results that aid decision‑making. The authors propose a new clustering approach based on pretopological spaces and benchmark it against classical numerical clustering algorithms and existing pretopological methods to evaluate its performance in the big data context.
arXiv:2602. 03293v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsupervised anomaly detection stands as an important problem in machine learning.