##  [K-Means Clustering](/k-means-clustering) 

  ##  [K-Means Clustering](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/k-means-clustering-0) 

  

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Definition

An iterative unsupervised clustering algorithm that partitions n data points into k clusters by alternately assigning each point to the nearest cluster centroid and recomputing centroids as the mean of assigned points until assignments stabilize or a stopping criterion is met.