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To introduce fastcluster, an efficient C++ library engineered to accelerate hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithms for dissimilarity matrices and vector data.

January 1, 2013Journal of Statistical SoftwareOpen Access

fastcluster: Fast Hierarchical, Agglomerative Clustering Routines forRandPython

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DMDaniel MüllnerStanford University

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Computational study demonstrates superior speed and memory efficiency in hierarchical agglomerative clustering, highlighting major performance gains across standard scientific software.

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To introduce fastcluster, an efficient C++ library engineered to accelerate hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithms for dissimilarity matrices and vector data.
Engineered efficient C++ routines implementing state-of-the-art hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithms.
Developed memory-saving routines specialized for clustering high-dimensional vector data.
Benchmarked time complexity and empirical execution speeds against native implementations in R, MATLAB, Mathematica, and SciPy.
Achieved improved asymptotic time complexity in most clustering configurations relative to standard tools.
Demonstrated superior empirical runtime performance across all evaluated software environments and datasets.

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Daniel Müllner (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d75410b54ccf0cfef30dfd https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v053.i09

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Computational study demonstrates superior speed and memory efficiency in hierarchical agglomerative clustering, highlighting major performance gains across standard scientific software.

fastcluster: Fast Hierarchical, Agglomerative Clustering Routines forRandPython

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fastcluster: Fast Hierarchical, Agglomerative Clustering Routines forRandPython

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