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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering  2018 Vol.19 No.11 P.1385-1396

http://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1700262


An anchor-based spectral clustering method


Author(s):  Qin Zhang, Guo-qiang Zhong, Jun-yu Dong

Affiliation(s):  Department of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China; more

Corresponding email(s):   gqzhong@ouc.edu.cn

Key Words:  Clustering, Spectral clustering, Graph Laplacian, Anchors


Qin Zhang, Guo-qiang Zhong, Jun-yu Dong. An anchor-based spectral clustering method[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2018, 19(11): 1385-1396.

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Abstract: 
Spectral clustering is one of the most popular and important clustering methods in pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining. However, its high computational complexity limits it in applications involving truly large-scale datasets. For a clustering problem with n samples, it needs to compute the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian with O(n3) time complexity. To address this problem, we propose a novel method called anchor-based spectral clustering (ASC) by employing anchor points of data. Specifically, m (mn) anchor points are selected from the dataset, which can basically maintain the intrinsic (manifold) structure of the original data. Then a mapping matrix between the original data and the anchors is constructed. More importantly, it is proved that this data-anchor mapping matrix essentially preserves the clustering structure of the data. Based on this mapping matrix, it is easy to approximate the spectral embedding of the original data. The proposed method scales linearly relative to the size of the data but with low degradation of the clustering performance. The proposed method, ASC, is compared to the classical spectral clustering and two state-of-the-art accelerating methods, i.e., power iteration clustering and landmark-based spectral clustering, on 10 real-world applications under three evaluation metrics. Experimental results show that ASC is consistently faster than the classical spectral clustering with comparable clustering performance, and at least comparable with or better than the state-of-the-art methods on both effectiveness and efficiency.

一种基于锚点的谱聚类方法

摘要:谱聚类是模式识别、机器学习和数据挖掘中最流行最重要的聚类方法之一。然而,高计算复杂度妨碍了谱聚类在大规模数据集的应用。对于具有n个样本的聚类问题,谱聚类需O(n3)时间复杂度计算图拉普拉斯矩阵特征向量。为解决该问题,提出一种新的基于锚点谱聚类方法(anchor-based spectral clustering,ASC)。首先,在数据集中选择mmn)个可以基本保持原始数据内在(流形)结构的锚点。然后,构造原始数据与锚点之间的映射矩阵,并证明该映射矩阵能保持数据的聚类结构。基于该映射矩阵,近似得到原始数据谱嵌入。ASC方法复杂度与数据集大小呈线性关系。将该方法与经典谱聚类方法和两种最新谱聚类加速方法,即能量迭代聚类(power iteration clustering,PIC)和基于地标聚类(landmark-based spectral clustering,LSC),在10个真实数据集上比较。实验结果表明,ASC算法比经典谱聚类算法具有更快聚类速度,在效率和有效性上与现有方法相当或优于现有方法。

关键词:聚类;谱聚类;图拉普拉斯;锚点

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