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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Causal Interpretation of DBSCAN Algorithm: A Dynamic Modeling for Epsilon Estimation.

K Garcia-Sanchez, J-L Perez-Ramos, S Ramirez-Rosales, A-M Herrera-Navarro, H Jiménez-Hernández, D Canton-Enriquez

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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K Garcia-SanchezFacultad de Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Av. de las Ciencias S/N, Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro 76230, Mexico.ORCID 0009-0009-2169-1991
J-L Perez-RamosFacultad de Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Av. de las Ciencias S/N, Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro 76230, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-0444-9230
S Ramirez-RosalesFacultad de Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Av. de las Ciencias S/N, Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro 76230, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-6635-5427
A-M Herrera-NavarroFacultad de Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Av. de las Ciencias S/N, Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro 76230, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-7711-9585
H Jiménez-HernándezFacultad de Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Av. de las Ciencias S/N, Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro 76230, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-0827-6645
D Canton-EnriquezFacultad de Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Av. de las Ciencias S/N, Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro 76230, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-6543-5078

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Abstract

DBSCAN is widely used to identify structured regions in unlabeled data, but its performance depends critically on the selection of the neighborhood parameter ε. Traditional heuristics for estimating ε often become unreliable in high-dimensional or varying-density settings because they rely heavily on local geometric criteria and may fail under smooth transitions or topological ambiguity. This work presents a three-level perspective on DBSCAN hyperparameter selection. At the algorithmic level, ε controls neighborhood connectivity and structural transitions in clustering. At the modeling level, the ordered

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causal inferenceDBSCANinformation complexitystructural causal modelsystem dynamicsuncertainty reduction

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