Cordeiro de Amorim, Renato and Makarenkov, V. and Mirkin, Boris (2016) A-Wardpβ: effective hierarchical clustering using the Minkowski metric and a fast k-means initialisation. Information Sciences 370-1 , pp. 343-354. ISSN 0020-0255.
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Abstract
In this paper we make two novel contributions to hierarchical clustering. First, we introduce an anomalous pattern initialisation method for hierarchical clustering algorithms, called A-Ward, capable of substantially reducing the time they take to converge. This method generates an initial partition with a sufficiently large number of clusters. This allows the cluster merging process to start from this partition rather than from a trivial partition composed solely of singletons. Our second contribution is an extension of the Ward and Wardp algorithms to the situation where the feature weight exponent can differ from the exponent of the Minkowski distance. This new method, called A-Wardpβ, is able to generate a much wider variety of clustering solutions. We also demonstrate that its parameters can be estimated reasonably well by using a cluster validity index. We perform numerous experiments using data sets with two types of noise, insertion of noise features and blurring within-cluster values of some features. These experiments allow us to conclude: (i) our anomalous pattern initialisation method does indeed reduce the time a hierarchical clustering algorithm takes to complete, without negatively impacting its cluster recovery ability; (ii) A-Wardpβ provides better cluster recovery than both Ward and Wardp.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Initialisation algorithm, Minkowski metric, Hierarchical clustering, Feature weighting |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Structural Molecular Biology, Institute of (ISMB) |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2016 09:40 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:38 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/15982 |
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