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Hauptverfasser: Clément, François, Steinerberger, Stefan
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21798
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author Clément, François
Steinerberger, Stefan
author_facet Clément, François
Steinerberger, Stefan
contents The k-means problem is perhaps the classical clustering problem and often synonymous with Lloyd's algorithm (1957). It has become clear that Hartigan's algorithm (1975) gives better results in almost all cases, Telgarsky-Vattani note a typical improvement of $5\%$ -- $10\%$. We point out that a very minor variation of Hartigan's method leads to another $2\%$ -- $5\%$ improvement; the improvement tends to become larger when either dimension or $k$ increase.
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spellingShingle An effective variant of the Hartigan $k$-means algorithm
Clément, François
Steinerberger, Stefan
Machine Learning
The k-means problem is perhaps the classical clustering problem and often synonymous with Lloyd's algorithm (1957). It has become clear that Hartigan's algorithm (1975) gives better results in almost all cases, Telgarsky-Vattani note a typical improvement of $5\%$ -- $10\%$. We point out that a very minor variation of Hartigan's method leads to another $2\%$ -- $5\%$ improvement; the improvement tends to become larger when either dimension or $k$ increase.
title An effective variant of the Hartigan $k$-means algorithm
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21798