Model Selection and Stability in Spectral Clustering

Zeev Volkovich, Renata Avros

2012

Abstract

An open problem in spectral clustering concerning of finding automatically the number of clusters is studied. We generalize the method for the scale parameter selecting offered in the Ng-Jordan-Weiss (NJW) algorithm and reveal a connection with the distance learning methodology. Values of the scaling parameter estimated via clustering of samples drawn are considered as a cluster stability attitude such that the clusters quantity corresponding to the most concentrated distribution is accepted as “true” number of clusters. Numerical experiments provided demonstrate high potential ability of the offered method.

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Volkovich Z. and Avros R. (2012). Model Selection and Stability in Spectral Clustering . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-29-7, pages 25-34. DOI: 10.5220/0004132700250034


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@conference{kdir12,
author={Zeev Volkovich and Renata Avros},
title={Model Selection and Stability in Spectral Clustering },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={25-34},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004132700250034},
isbn={978-989-8565-29-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2012)
TI - Model Selection and Stability in Spectral Clustering
SN - 978-989-8565-29-7
AU - Volkovich Z.
AU - Avros R.
PY - 2012
SP - 25
EP - 34
DO - 10.5220/0004132700250034