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	Klasteryzacja hierarchiczna	Klasteryzacja K-średnich	Klastrowanie spektralne
Dziedzina	Uczenie maszynowe	Uczenie maszynowe	Uczenie maszynowe
Rodzina	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Rok powstania	1963	1967	2002
Twórca	Ward, J. H.	MacQueen, J.	Ng, A. Y.; Jordan, M. I.; Weiss, Y.
Typ	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Partitional clustering (centroid-based)	Graph-based clustering (spectral method)
Źródło pierwotne	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.	MacQueen, J. (1967). Some Methods for Classification and Analysis of Multivariate Observations. Proceedings of the 5th Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1, 281–297.	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.
Inne nazwy	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	K-Ortalamalar Kümeleme, k-ortalamalar kümeleme, k-means, centroid clustering	NJW spectral clustering, graph Laplacian clustering, normalized spectral clustering, spectral graph clustering
Pokrewne	4	3	5
Podsumowanie	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.	K-Means Clustering is a centroid-based partitional clustering algorithm, traced to J. MacQueen in 1967, that splits data into k clusters by assigning each observation to its nearest cluster centre. It is widely used for marketing segmentation, customer grouping, and exploratory analysis.	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.