Clustering

Clustering is a type of unsupervised learning in which the goal is to partition a set of examples into groups called clusters. Intuitively, the examples within a cluster are more similar to each other than to examples from other clusters. In order to measure the similarity between examples, clustering algorithms use various distortion or distance measures. There are two major types clustering approaches: generative and discriminative. The former assumes a parametric form of the data and tries to find the model parameters that maximize the probability that the data was generated by the chosen model. The latter represents graph-theoretic approaches that compute a similarity matrix defined over the input data.

Cross References

Categorical Data Clustering

Cluster Editing

Cluster Ensembles

Clustering from Data Streams

Constrained Clustering

Consensus Clustering

Correlation Clustering

Cross-Language Document Clustering

Density-Based Clustering

Dirichlet Process

Document Clustering...