Time-Series Clustering: A Comprehensive Study of Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Methods

Summary: Benchmark of 84 time-series clustering methods (10 classes) on 128 datasets with rigorous statistical evaluation and reproducibility checks, covering data-mining, ML, and deep-learning (including foundation models). No method significantly beats decade-old k-Shape; elastic-distance and DL superiority challenged, reproducibility issues exposed, open-sourced benchmark and one promising DL approach highlighted. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 14052
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,739 | 25.30%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749700

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