What to Do When K-Means Clustering Fails: A Simple yet Principled Alternative Algorithm

The K-means algorithm is one of the most popular clustering algorithms in current use as it is relatively fast yet simple to understand and deploy in practice. Nevertheless, its use entails certain restrictive assumptions about the data, the negative consequences of which are not always immediately...

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Main Authors: Raykov, Yordan P., Boukouvalas, Alexis, Baig, Fahd, Little, Max
Other Authors: Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109129

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