ClusBench: The Clustering Benchmark Data Resource You've All Been Waiting For (?)

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10673v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:27:01 GMT
• Title: ClusBench: The Clustering Benchmark Data Resource You've All Been Waiting For (?)
• Abstract summary: We describe the production and curation of close to 3000 synthetic data sets, derived from more than 200 publicly available data sets.<n>By fitting a flexible non-parametric distribution to each base data set we are able to retain much of the nuance in real-world data.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Although some very common test beds exist for assessing the performance of clustering methods, large scale benchmarking is typically limited to relatively simplistic simulation set-ups. Here we describe the production and curation of close to 3000 synthetic data sets, derived from more than 200 publicly available data sets; the majority of which arose from real-world applications. By fitting a flexible non-parametric distribution to each base data set we are able to retain much of the nuance in real-world data which is difficult to reproduce in standard simulations, while also producing data sets whose sizes are sometimes substantially greater than the data sets from which they are derived. The synthetic data sets, plus an accompanying R package, are available for download from https://github.com/DavidHofmeyr/ClusBench.

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