Compară metode

	Clustering K-means	Autoencoder Variațional
Domeniu	Învățare automată	Învățare profundă
Familie	Machine learning	Machine learning
Anul apariției	1967 (formalized 1982)	2014
Autorul original	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Kingma, D. P. & Welling, M.
Tip	Partitional clustering	Deep generative latent-variable model (encoder–decoder)
Sursa seminală	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Kingma, D. P. & Welling, M. (2014). Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
Denumiri alternative	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Değişkensel Otokodlayıcı (VAE), VAE, auto-encoding variational Bayes, deep latent variable model
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.	The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a deep generative latent-variable model, introduced by Diederik Kingma and Max Welling in 2014, that encodes data as a probability distribution in a latent space and samples from that distribution to generate new examples. It is used for data generation, anomaly detection, and feature learning.