Compară metode

	Clustering K-means	Model Gaussian Mixt (GMM) Regularizat
Domeniu	Învățare automată	Învățare automată
Familie	Machine learning	Machine learning
Anul apariției	1967 (formalized 1982)	2000s–2010s
Autorul original	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Fraley, C. & Raftery, A. E. (regularization formalized); sklearn team (practical reg_covar parameter)
Tip	Partitional clustering	Probabilistic clustering with regularization
Sursa seminală	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Fraley, C. & Raftery, A. E. (2002). Model-based clustering, discriminant analysis, and density estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97(458), 611–631.
Denumiri alternative	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Regularized GMM, GMM with covariance regularization, stabilized Gaussian mixture model, penalized GMM
Înrudite	4	5
Rezumat	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.	A Regularized Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) adds a small positive constant to the diagonal of each component covariance matrix during the Expectation-Maximization algorithm, preventing singular or near-singular matrices that cause numerical failures when the data are sparse, high-dimensional, or contain near-duplicate observations.