方法对比

	DBSCAN	HDBSCAN	谱聚类
领域	机器学习	机器学习	机器学习
方法族	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
起源年份	1996	2013	2002
提出者	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.	Campello, R. J. G. B.; Moulavi, D.; Sander, J.	Ng, A. Y.; Jordan, M. I.; Weiss, Y.
类型	Density-based clustering algorithm	Hierarchical density-based clustering	Graph-based clustering (spectral method)
开创性文献	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.	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.	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.
别名	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering	HDBSCAN, Hierarchical DBSCAN, hierarchical density-based clustering, HDBSCAN*	NJW spectral clustering, graph Laplacian clustering, normalized spectral clustering, spectral graph clustering
相关	3	3	5
摘要	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.	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.	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.