Package: IBclust
Type: Package
Title: Information Bottleneck Methods for Clustering Mixed-Type Data
Version: 1.5
Authors@R: c(person(given = "Angelos",
                    family = "Markos",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "amarkos@gmail.com"),
             person(given = "Efthymios",
                    family = "Costa",
                    role = "aut"),
             person(given = "Ioanna",
                    family = "Papatsouma",
                    role = "aut"))
Description: Implements multiple variants of the Information Bottleneck
        ('IB') method for clustering datasets containing continuous,
        categorical (nominal/ordinal) and mixed-type variables. The
        package provides deterministic, agglomerative, generalised,
        sequential, and standard IB clustering algorithms that preserve
        relevant information while forming interpretable clusters. The
        Deterministic Information Bottleneck is described in Costa et
        al. (2026) <doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2026.113580>. The standard IB
        method originates from Tishby et al. (2000)
        <doi:10.48550/arXiv.physics/0004057>, the agglomerative variant
        from Slonim and Tishby (1999)
        <https://papers.nips.cc/paper/1651-agglomerative-information-bottleneck>,
        the generalised IB from Strouse and Schwab (2017)
        <doi:10.1162/NECO_a_00961>, and the sequential IB from Slonim
        et al. (2002) <doi:10.1145/564376.564401>. Diagnostic and
        plotting functions are provided to summarise, visualise, and
        predict from the resulting clusterings.
License: GPL (>= 3)
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports: Rcpp, stats, utils, np, rje, Rdpack
Suggests: mclust
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppEigen
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
RdMacros: Rdpack
NeedsCompilation: yes
Config/pak/sysreqs: make
Repository: https://amarkos.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-08-25 12:51:49 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/amarkos/ibclust
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 3b264ce45474f81059b42dd8d395f18d69fb0146
Packaged: 2026-09-24 10:05:14 UTC; root
Author: Angelos Markos [aut, cre],
  Efthymios Costa [aut],
  Ioanna Papatsouma [aut]
Maintainer: Angelos Markos <amarkos@gmail.com>