Summary of Anchor-free Clustering Based on Anchor Graph Factorization, by Shikun Mei et al.
Anchor-free Clustering based on Anchor Graph Factorization
by Shikun Mei, Fangfang Li, Quanxue Gao, Ming Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers propose a novel method called Anchor-free Clustering based on Anchor Graph Factorization (AFCAGF) to improve clustering of large-scale data. Traditional anchor-based methods involve two stages: selecting anchor points and constructing an anchor graph. AFCAGF eliminates the need for explicit selection of anchor points by learning the anchor graph through pairwise distances between samples. The approach is based on Fuzzy k-means clustering algorithm (FKM), which introduces a new manifold learning technique to initialize cluster centers. The paper also evolves the concept of membership matrix in FKM into an anchor graph, allowing for direct derivation of cluster labels using Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF). The proposed method is implemented with an alternating optimization algorithm that ensures convergence. Experimental results on various real-world datasets demonstrate the superior efficacy of AFCAGF compared to traditional approaches. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers have created a new way to group big data together called Anchor-free Clustering based on Anchor Graph Factorization (AFCAGF). This method is different from others because it doesn’t need to choose special points, or “anchors”, first. Instead, it figures out the anchors by looking at how close all the data points are to each other. AFCAGF uses an old clustering method called Fuzzy k-means and makes some changes to make it work better. It also uses a technique called Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) to find the groups of data points. The researchers used this new method on lots of real-world datasets and found that it works way better than other methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Clustering * K means * Manifold learning * Optimization
