เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Robust k-means	DBSCAN	Spectral Clustering
สาขาวิชา	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง
ตระกูล	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
ปีกำเนิด	1999	1996	2002
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Garcia-Escudero, L. A. & Gordaliza, A.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.	Ng, A. Y.; Jordan, M. I.; Weiss, Y.
ประเภท	Robust clustering algorithm	Density-based clustering algorithm	Graph-based clustering (spectral method)
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Garcia-Escudero, L. A., & Gordaliza, A. (1999). Robustness properties of k-means and trimmed k-means. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94(447), 956–969.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X. (1996). A Density-Based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise. Proceedings of the 2nd KDD, 226–231.	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.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	robust k-means clustering, trimmed k-means, outlier-resistant k-means, RKM	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering	NJW spectral clustering, graph Laplacian clustering, normalized spectral clustering, spectral graph clustering
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	3	5
สรุป	Robust k-means is a variant of classical k-means clustering designed to resist the influence of outliers. By trimming a specified fraction of the most extreme observations before computing cluster centers, it produces stable and meaningful partitions even when the data contain noise, contamination, or heavy-tailed distributions — situations where standard k-means breaks down.	DBSCAN is a density-based clustering algorithm, introduced by Ester, Kriegel, Sander and Xu in 1996, that groups together points lying in dense regions and flags points in sparse regions as noise. It is effective on noisy data and on clusters of irregular, non-spherical shapes.	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.