Summary of Incremental Affinity Propagation Based on Cluster Consolidation and Stratification, by Silvana Castano et al.
Incremental Affinity Propagation based on Cluster Consolidation and Stratification
by Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli, Francesco Periti
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed A-Posteriori affinity Propagation (APP) algorithm addresses the need for incremental clustering over dynamic datasets by tracing temporal changes in resulting clusters. Building upon Affinity Propagation (AP), APP integrates cluster consolidation and stratification to achieve faithfulness and forgetfulness. This allows for the dynamic consolidation of new arriving objects into previous clusters without re-executing clustering, while maintaining a faithful sequence of clustering results and allowing the forgetting of obsolete clusters through decremental learning. The performance of APP is tested on four popular labeled datasets, demonstrating comparable clustering quality while ensuring scalability. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes an algorithm called A-Posteriori affinity Propagation (APP) that helps us group things together in a way that makes sense over time. It’s like a journal where we keep track of how our groups change as new information comes in. The algorithm makes sure that we don’t forget old groups and that we can always see what happened in the past. The researchers tested APP on some popular datasets and found that it works just as well as other similar algorithms, but is also very good at handling big data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Clustering
