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无歧义聚类的保证恢复

Guaranteed Recovery of Unambiguous Clusters

Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(电气与计算机工程大学伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校)

Kayvon Mazooji, Ilan Shomorony

AI总结:

本文针对聚类结果存在歧义的问题,提出一种信息论刻画无歧义 $K$-聚类的条件,并设计基于密度种子和贪心扩展的恢复算法,在多个数据集上以较少参数选择取得优于现有非凸聚类方法的性能。

摘要:

聚类通常是一个具有挑战性的问题,因为在“正确”的聚类应该是什么这一问题上存在固有的歧义。即使当聚类数目 $K$ 已知时,这种歧义往往仍然存在,特别是当不同聚类之间存在密度差异,并且聚类具有多个相对分离的高密度区域时。在本文中,我们提出了一种信息论刻画,用于判断一个 $K$-聚类何时是歧义的,并设计了一种算法,只要聚类是无歧义的,该算法就能恢复该聚类。这一刻画形式化了如下情形:一个聚类内部的两个高密度区域足够可分离,以至于它们看起来更像两个不同的聚类,而不是 $K$-聚类中两个真正不同的聚类。该算法首先使用基于密度的方法识别出 $K$ 个部分聚类(或“种子”),然后以贪心方式将未聚类的点添加到初始的 $K$ 个部分聚类中,以形成完整的聚类。我们实现并测试了该算法的一个版本,该版本经过修改以有效处理重叠聚类,并观察到它几乎不需要参数选择,并且在许多数据集上相比广泛使用的非凸聚类恢复算法表现出更好的性能。

英文摘要:

Clustering is often a challenging problem because of the inherent ambiguity in what the "correct" clustering should be. Even when the number of clusters $K$ is known, this ambiguity often still exists, particularly when there is variation in density among different clusters, and clusters have multiple relatively separated regions of high density. In this paper we propose an information-theoretic characterization of when a $K$-clustering is ambiguous, and design an algorithm that recovers the clustering whenever it is unambiguous. This characterization formalizes the situation when two high density regions within a cluster are separable enough that they look more like two distinct clusters than two truly distinct clusters in the $K$-clustering. The algorithm first identifies $K$ partial clusters (or "seeds") using a density-based approach, and then adds unclustered points to the initial $K$ partial clusters in a greedy manner to form a complete clustering. We implement and test a version of the algorithm that is modified to effectively handle overlapping clusters, and observe that it requires little parameter selection and displays improved performance on many datasets compared to widely used algorithms for non-convex cluster recovery.

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