arXiv:2512.16481v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Survival analysis encompasses a broad range of methods for analyzing time-to-event data, with one key objective being the comparison of survi...
By Nora M. Villanueva, Marta Sestelo, Luis Meira-Machado
The paper examines whether Deep Embedded Clustering (DEC) truly overcomes the fundamental limitations of k‑means clustering, such as handling clusters of arbitrary shapes, varied sizes, and densities. Through analysis, it finds that DEC does not exploit the underlying data distribution and therefore fails to address these limitations. Instead, a non‑deep learning approach that leverages distributional information of clusters can achieve the intended goals of deep clustering.
By Kai Ming Ting, Wei-Jie Xu, Hang Zhang
arXiv:2606. 14608v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Survival prediction plays a central role for healthcare providers and clinical researchers.
By Farica Zhuang, Zixuan Wen, Christos Davatzikos, Li Shen
arXiv:2604. 07085v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In electronic health records (EHRs), clustering patients and distinguishing disease subtypes are key tasks to elucidate pathophysiology and aid clinical decision-making.
By Manar D. Samad, Yina Hou, Shrabani Ghosh
arXiv:2606. 00327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clustering is widely used across the sciences as the foundation for downstream data-driven scientific discoveries.
By Kai R. Wycik, Tiffany M. Tang, Tarek M. Zikry, Genevera I. Allen
The paper introduces FedDCN, a federated deep clustering network that jointly optimizes reconstruction and clustering losses for high‑dimensional, heterogeneous data. It addresses challenges of non‑IID client data by generating synthetic augmentations and applying geometric regularization to align latent spaces. Experiments show the method’s effectiveness under both IID and non‑IID settings, and the authors outline future research directions.
By Morris Stallmann, Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, Marcin Pietrasik, Anna Wilbik
arXiv:2511. 17823v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Clustering algorithms have long been the topic of research, representing the more popular side of unsupervised learning.
By Naitik Gada (Rochester Institute of Technology)
arXiv:2606. 14592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clustering is widely used for exploratory analysis and scientific discovery, driving insights from market segmentation to biological data analysis, but its outputs can be difficult to interpret, audit, and reproduce as modern datasets become increasingly large and complex.
By Claire M. He, Genevera I. Allen
arXiv:2506. 22427v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose CLoVE (Clustering of Loss Vector Embeddings), a novel algorithm for Clustered Federated Learning (CFL).
By Randeep Bhatia, Nikos Papadis, Murali Kodialam, TV Lakshman, Sayak Chakrabarty
arXiv:2606. 31253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The classical $k$-means clustering, based on distances computed from all data features, cannot be directly applied to incomplete data with missing values.
By Xin Guan
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...
By Anirban Mondal, Paromita Banerjee, Abhijit Mandal
arXiv:2606. 25770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data scarcity is a major bottleneck in medical Multiple Instance Learning (MIL), especially for rare diseases or expensive modalities.
By Muhammed Furkan Dasdelen, Fatih Ozlugedik, Anastasia Litinetskaya, Nassir Navab, Carsten Marr, Ario Sadafi