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CURE: An Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Large Databases

Summary: CURE: robust to outliers, it discovers non-spherical, variably sized clusters using multiple dispersed points per cluster shrunk toward the center. Scales to large data via sampling and partitioning with a two-pass refinement, outperforming prior methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h132b125455aba2e5
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1998
Pagerank
0.00019978187
Overall Rank
364 | 97.56%
DOI
10.1145/276304.276312

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{guha_sigmod98,
        title = {{CURE: An Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Large Databases}},
        author = {Guha, Sudipto and Rastogi, Rajeev and Shim, Kyuseok},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276312},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276312},
        year = {1998}
}

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