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title: 'IBclust: Information Bottleneck Methods for Clustering Mixed-Type Data'
version: '1.4'
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.IBclust
abstract: 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, generalized,
  and standard 'IB' clustering algorithms that preserve relevant information while
  forming interpretable clusters. The Deterministic Information Bottleneck is described
  in Costa et al. (2026) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.113580>. The standard
  'IB' method originates from Tishby et al. (2000) <https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.physics/0004057>,
  the agglomerative variant from Slonim and Tishby (1999) <https://papers.nips.cc/paper/1651-agglomerative-information-bottleneck>,
  and the generalized 'IB' from Strouse and Schwab (2017) <https://doi.org/10.1162/NECO_a_00961>.
authors:
- family-names: Markos
  given-names: Angelos
  email: amarkos@gmail.com
- family-names: Costa
  given-names: Efthymios
- family-names: Papatsouma
  given-names: Ioanna
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: IBclust
  authors:
  - family-names: Markos
    given-names: Angelos
    email: amarkos@gmail.com
  - family-names: Costa
    given-names: Efthymios
  - family-names: Papatsouma
    given-names: Ioanna
  year: '2026'
  notes: version 1.4
  url: https://github.com/amarkos/IBclust
repository: https://amarkos.r-universe.dev
commit: 231def61bd753044901e3fda6efdc50d873b7bec
date-released: '2026-06-02'
contact:
- family-names: Markos
  given-names: Angelos
  email: amarkos@gmail.com