Summary of On the Cohesion and Separability Of Average-link For Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering, by Eduardo Sany Laber and Miguel Bastista
On the cohesion and separability of average-link for hierarchical agglomerative clustering
by Eduardo Sany Laber, Miguel Bastista
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a comprehensive study on the performance of average-link clustering in metric spaces, focusing on natural criteria that capture separability and cohesion. Building upon existing theoretical analyses, it shows that average-link outperforms other popular heuristics like single-linkage and complete-linkage regarding variants of Dasgupta’s cost function. The study demonstrates the effectiveness of average-link in achieving both cohesion and separability goals using real-world datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper studies how well a type of clustering method called “average-link” works in organizing data into groups that are similar to each other. Average-link is already known to be good at grouping similar things together, but this study looks closer at how it does with different types of data and what makes it better than other methods. The researchers found that average-link is a great choice when you want to group things in a way that keeps similar things together while also making sure they’re separate from each other. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Clustering
