kmedoids 0.5.5

k-Medoids clustering with the FasterPAM algorithm
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cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
authors:
  - family-names: Schubert
    given-names: Erich
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9143-4880"
  - family-names: Lenssen
    given-names: Lars
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0037-0418"
title: "Fast k-medoids Clustering in Rust and Python"
journal: "J. Open Source Softw."
doi: 10.21105/joss.04183
version: 0.5.5
date-released: 2026-05-22
license: GPL-3.0
preferred-citation:
  title: "Fast k-medoids Clustering in Rust and Python"
  year: "2022"
  type: article
  journal: "J. Open Source Softw."
  doi: 10.21105/joss.04183
  authors:
    - family-names: Schubert
      given-names: Erich
    - family-names: Lenssen
      given-names: Lars
references:
- title: "Faster k-Medoids Clustering: Improving the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS Algorithms"
  doi: "10.1007/978-3-030-32047-8_16"
  year: "2019"
  type: conference-paper
  conference: "Similarity Search and Applications - 12th International Conference, SISAP 2019, Newark, NJ, USA, October 2-4, 2019, Proceedings"
  authors:
    - family-names: Schubert
      given-names: Erich
    - family-names: Rousseeuw
      given-names: Peter J.
- title: "Fast and eager k-medoids clustering: O(k) runtime improvement of the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS algorithms"
  doi: "10.1016/j.is.2021.101804"
  year: "2021"
  type: article
  journal: "Inf. Syst."
  volume: 101
  start: 101804
  authors:
    - family-names: Schubert
      given-names: Erich
    - family-names: Rousseeuw
      given-names: Peter J.
- title: "Clustering by Direct Optimization of the Medoid Silhouette"
  doi: "10.1007/978-3-031-17849-8_15"
  year: "2022"
  type: conference-paper
  conference: "Similarity Search and Applications - 15th International Conference, SISAP 2022, Bologna, Italy, October 5-7, 2022, Proceedings"
  authors:
    - family-names: Lenssen
      given-names: Lars
    - family-names: Schubert
      given-names: Erich
- title: "Medoid silhouette clustering with automatic cluster number selection"
  doi: "10.1016/j.is.2023.102290"
  year: "2024"
  type: article
  journal: "Inf. Syst."
  volume: 120
  start: 102290
  authors:
    - family-names: Lenssen
      given-names: Lars
    - family-names: Schubert
      given-names: Erich