US Patent 10354201 Scalable clustering for mixed machine learning data

A number of attributes of different attribute types, to be used to assign observation records of a data set to clusters, are identified. Attribute-type-specific distance metrics for the attributes, which can be combined to obtain a normalized aggregated distance of an observation record from a cluster representative, are selected. One or more iterations of a selected clustering methodology are implemented on the data set using resources of a machine learning service until targeted termination criteria are met. A given iteration includes assigning the observations to clusters of a current version of a clustering model based on the aggregated distances from the cluster representatives of the current version, and updating the cluster representatives to generate a new version of the clustering model.