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Hauptverfasser: Baligodugula, Vishnu Vardhan, Amsaad, Fathi
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23215
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author Baligodugula, Vishnu Vardhan
Amsaad, Fathi
author_facet Baligodugula, Vishnu Vardhan
Amsaad, Fathi
contents This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of prominent clustering algorithms K-means, DBSCAN, and Spectral Clustering on high-dimensional datasets. We introduce a novel evaluation framework that assesses clustering performance across multiple dimensionality reduction techniques (PCA, t-SNE, and UMAP) using diverse quantitative metrics. Experiments conducted on MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, and UCI HAR datasets reveal that preprocessing with UMAP consistently improves clustering quality across all algorithms, with Spectral Clustering demonstrating superior performance on complex manifold structures. Our findings show that algorithm selection should be guided by data characteristics, with Kmeans excelling in computational efficiency, DBSCAN in handling irregular clusters, and Spectral Clustering in capturing complex relationships. This research contributes a systematic approach for evaluating and selecting clustering techniques for high dimensional data applications.
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spellingShingle Unsupervised Learning: Comparative Analysis of Clustering Techniques on High-Dimensional Data
Baligodugula, Vishnu Vardhan
Amsaad, Fathi
Machine Learning
This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of prominent clustering algorithms K-means, DBSCAN, and Spectral Clustering on high-dimensional datasets. We introduce a novel evaluation framework that assesses clustering performance across multiple dimensionality reduction techniques (PCA, t-SNE, and UMAP) using diverse quantitative metrics. Experiments conducted on MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, and UCI HAR datasets reveal that preprocessing with UMAP consistently improves clustering quality across all algorithms, with Spectral Clustering demonstrating superior performance on complex manifold structures. Our findings show that algorithm selection should be guided by data characteristics, with Kmeans excelling in computational efficiency, DBSCAN in handling irregular clusters, and Spectral Clustering in capturing complex relationships. This research contributes a systematic approach for evaluating and selecting clustering techniques for high dimensional data applications.
title Unsupervised Learning: Comparative Analysis of Clustering Techniques on High-Dimensional Data
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23215