TY - GEN
T1 - Minimum average cost clustering
AU - Nagano, Kiyohito
AU - Kawahara, Yoshinobu
AU - Iwata, Satoru
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A number of objective functions in clustering problems can be described with submodular functions. In this paper, we introduce the minimum average cost criterion, and show that the theory of intersecting submodular functions can be used for clustering with submodular objective functions. The proposed algorithm does not require the number of clusters in advance, and it will be determined by the property of a given set of data points. The minimum average cost clustering problem is parameterized with a real variable, and surprisingly, we show that all information about optimal clusterings for all parameters can be computed in polynomial time in total. Additionally, we evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm through computational experiments.
AB - A number of objective functions in clustering problems can be described with submodular functions. In this paper, we introduce the minimum average cost criterion, and show that the theory of intersecting submodular functions can be used for clustering with submodular objective functions. The proposed algorithm does not require the number of clusters in advance, and it will be determined by the property of a given set of data points. The minimum average cost clustering problem is parameterized with a real variable, and surprisingly, we show that all information about optimal clusterings for all parameters can be computed in polynomial time in total. Additionally, we evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm through computational experiments.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860627339
SN - 9781617823800
T3 - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010
BT - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23
T2 - 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010
Y2 - 6 December 2010 through 9 December 2010
ER -