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公平性、半监督学习及更多:随机成对约束聚类的一般框架

Fairness, Semi-Supervised Learning, and More: A General Framework for Clustering with Stochastic Pairwise Constraints

Wellesley College(韦尔斯利学院);Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);University of Maryland, College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校)

Brian Brubach, Darshan Chakrabarti, John P. Dickerson, Aravind Srinivasan, Leonidas Tsepenekas

摘要:

度量聚类是从组合优化和数据采掘到机器学习和运筹学等领域的基础。然而,在各种情况下,我们可能有额外的要求或知识,不同于底层的度量,关于哪些点对应该聚集在一起。为了捕捉和分析这样的情况下,我们引入了一个新的家庭的\emph{stochastic pairwise constraints},我们纳入几个基本的聚类目标(半径/中位数/手段)。此外,我们证明了这些约束可以简洁地建模一个有趣的应用程序集合,其中包括聚类中的\emph{Individual Fairness}和半监督学习中的\emph{Must-link}约束。我们的主要结果包括一个一般的框架,产生近似算法与可证明的保证重要的聚类目标,而在同一时间产生的解决方案,尊重随机成对约束。此外,对于某些目标,我们设计改进的结果的情况下,必须链接的约束,这也是最好的可能从理论的角度来看。最后,我们提出了实验证据,验证了我们的算法的有效性。

英文摘要:

Metric clustering is fundamental in areas ranging from Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining, to Machine Learning and Operations Research. However, in a variety of situations we may have additional requirements or knowledge, distinct from the underlying metric, regarding which pairs of points should be clustered together. To capture and analyze such scenarios, we introduce a novel family of \emph{stochastic pairwise constraints}, which we incorporate into several essential clustering objectives (radius/median/means). Moreover, we demonstrate that these constraints can succinctly model an intriguing collection of applications, including among others \emph{Individual Fairness} in clustering and \emph{Must-link} constraints in semi-supervised learning. Our main result consists of a general framework that yields approximation algorithms with provable guarantees for important clustering objectives, while at the same time producing solutions that respect the stochastic pairwise constraints. Furthermore, for certain objectives we devise improved results in the case of Must-link constraints, which are also the best possible from a theoretical perspective. Finally, we present experimental evidence that validates the effectiveness of our algorithms.

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