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	स्पेक्ट्रल क्लस्टरिंग	पदानुक्रमिक समूहन
क्षेत्र	मशीन अधिगम	मशीन अधिगम
परिवार	Machine learning	Machine learning
उद्भव वर्ष	2002	1963
प्रवर्तक	Ng, A. Y.; Jordan, M. I.; Weiss, Y.	Ward, J. H.
प्रकार	Graph-based clustering (spectral method)	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
मौलिक स्रोत	Ng, A. Y., Jordan, M. I., & Weiss, Y. (2002). On Spectral Clustering: Analysis and an Algorithm. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 14, 849–856.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.
उपनाम	NJW spectral clustering, graph Laplacian clustering, normalized spectral clustering, spectral graph clustering	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering
संबंधित	5	4
सारांश	Spectral Clustering is a graph-based unsupervised learning algorithm, formalized by Ng, Jordan, and Weiss in 2002, that maps data points into a low-dimensional eigenspace derived from the similarity graph's Laplacian before applying k-means. This spectral embedding makes it possible to recover clusters of arbitrary shape — rings, crescents, interleaved spirals — that Euclidean distance-based methods consistently fail to separate.	Hierarchical clustering is an unsupervised method that groups observations into nested clusters and draws the result as a dendrogram, so the number of clusters need not be fixed in advance. Its agglomerative form rests on the objective-function grouping criterion introduced by Joe Ward in 1963.