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Document Clustering on 20 Newsgroups

73AccuracyAgentic clustering
8.72825.41442.158.786Apr 4, 2026Apr 13, 2026Apr 23, 2026May 2, 2026May 12, 2026May 21, 2026May 31, 2026

Evaluation results

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Agentic clusteringk setting=Given k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=20, total cost ($)=$100 + $222026.05736755
Agentic clusteringk setting=Discover k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=18, total cost ($)=$100 + $232026.05726853
ClusterLLMk setting=Given k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=20, total cost ($)=$1.532026.05676448
LLM-embedding+k-meansk setting=Given k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=20, total cost ($)=$0.392026.05646349
SBERT+k-meansk setting=Given k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=20, total cost ($)=$02026.05615842
BERTopick setting=Given k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=20, total cost ($)=$02026.05395331
TopicGPTk setting=Discover k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=18, total cost ($)=$100 + $662026.05395328
k-means on mean poolingFeature representation=mean pooling, Backbone=frozen BERT, K1=32, K2=20, Epochs=152026.0435.137.717.8
LDAk setting=Given k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=20, total cost ($)=$02026.05343619
Huang & Hek setting=Discover k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=377, total cost ($)=$100 + $442026.05295322
k-means on [CLS]Feature representation=[CLS], Backbone=frozen BERT, K1=32, K2=20, Epochs=152026.042021.16
BERTopick setting=Discover k, predicted number of clusters (ˆk)=272, total cost ($)=$02026.05205117
k-means on CLSBackbone=frozen BERT, epsilon=0.052026.0419.618.96.5
DDCL-AttentionBackbone=frozen BERT, epsilon=0.052026.0417.515.23.9
Hier. DDCL L1+L2ε=0.05, λ=1.5, Backbone=frozen BERT, K1=32, K2=20, Epochs=152026.0413.39.31.6
Hier. DDCL L1+L2ε=0.1, λ=0.5, Backbone=frozen BERT, K1=32, K2=20, Epochs=152026.0411.27.50.9