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	HDBSCAN	Clustering K-means	HDBSCAN semi-supervisionato
Campo	Apprendimento automatico	Apprendimento automatico	Apprendimento automatico
Famiglia	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Anno di origine	2013	1967 (formalized 1982)	2017–present
Ideatore	Campello, R. J. G. B.; Moulavi, D.; Sander, J.	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	McInnes, L.; Healy, J. (base HDBSCAN); semi-supervised extensions by various authors
Tipo	Hierarchical density-based clustering	Partitional clustering	Semi-supervised density-based clustering
Fonte seminale	Campello, R. J. G. B., Moulavi, D., & Sander, J. (2013). Density-Based Clustering Based on Hierarchical Density Estimates. In J. Pei et al. (Eds.), Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. PAKDD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7819 (pp. 160–172). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	McInnes, L., Healy, J., & Astels, S. (2017). hdbscan: Hierarchical density based clustering. Journal of Open Source Software, 2(11), 205.
Alias	HDBSCAN, Hierarchical DBSCAN, hierarchical density-based clustering, HDBSCAN*	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Constrained HDBSCAN, Semi-supervised hierarchical density clustering, HDBSCAN with partial labels, SS-HDBSCAN
Correlati	3	4	6
Sintesi	HDBSCAN (Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) is a density-based clustering algorithm introduced by Campello, Moulavi, and Sander in 2013. It extends DBSCAN by building a full hierarchy of density-based clusters across all density scales and then extracting a stable flat partition, making it robust to datasets where cluster densities vary substantially across regions.	K-means is a classic unsupervised partitional clustering algorithm that divides a dataset into K non-overlapping groups by iteratively assigning each observation to its nearest centroid and updating centroids as the mean of their assigned points. It is one of the most widely used exploratory tools in machine learning and data analysis.	Semi-supervised HDBSCAN extends the Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (HDBSCAN) algorithm by incorporating partial supervision — such as must-link and cannot-link pairwise constraints or a small set of labeled examples — to guide the density-based cluster hierarchy toward cluster assignments that are consistent with available domain knowledge.