Discovering Non-Redundant K-means Clusterings in Optimal Subspaces

Mautz, Dominik; Ye, Wei; Plant, Claudia und Böhm, Christian (2018): Discovering Non-Redundant K-means Clusterings in Optimal Subspaces. In: Kdd'18: Proceedings of the 24Th Acm Sigkdd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining: S. 1973-1982

Abstract

A huge object collection in high-dimensional space can often be clustered in more than one way, for instance, objects could be clustered by their shape or alternatively by their color. Each grouping represents a different view of the data set. The new research field of non-redundant clustering addresses this class of problems. In this paper, we follow the approach that different, non-redundant k-means-like clusterings may exist in different, arbitrarily oriented subspaces of the high-dimensional space. We assume that these subspaces (and optionally a further noise space without any cluster structure) are orthogonal to each other. This assumption enables a particularly rigorous mathematical treatment of the non-redundant clustering problem and thus a particularly efficient algorithm, which we call Nr-Kmeans (for non-redundant k-means). The superiority of our algorithm is demonstrated both theoretically, as well as in extensive experiments.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik > Informatik
• Themengebiete: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke > 004 Informatik
• Sprache: Englisch