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:2502. 08397v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis and machine learning, used to group similar data points together.
arXiv:2607. 15835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Big data clustering remains challenging: the Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) problem underlying K-means is NP-hard, and existing methods either reach poor local minima or require prohibitive metaheuristic hybrids.
arXiv:2609.36762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated clustering methods that do not require the global number of clusters $K$ still assume that each client knows its local number $K_g$. This ass...
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.
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...
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:2607. 01945v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The classical $k$-means clustering cannot be directly used to incomplete data, and existing $k$-means-based clustering for missing data primarily focus on improving the practical accuracy of clustering, whereas most of them lack theoretical guarantees in the asymptotic sense.
arXiv:2606. 05230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selecting a clustering algorithm and its hyperparameters without labels is a common difficulty in engineering machine learning pipelines that work with unsupervised analysis of sensor, image, or process data.
arXiv:2512. 16558v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Clustering is a cornerstone of modern data analysis.
arXiv:2606. 10673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although some very common test beds exist for assessing the performance of clustering methods, large scale benchmarking is typically limited to relatively simplistic simulation set-ups.
arXiv:2607. 24537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the Big Data era, the scalability of clustering algorithms constitutes a key challenge.