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Singapore Management University
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A Systematic Density-Based Clustering Method Using Anchor Points, Yizhang Wang, Di Wang, Wei Pang, Ah-Hwee Tan, You Zhou
A Systematic Density-Based Clustering Method Using Anchor Points, Yizhang Wang, Di Wang, Wei Pang, Ah-Hwee Tan, You Zhou
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Clustering is an important unsupervised learning method in machine learning and data mining. Many existing clustering methods may still face the challenge in self-identifying clusters with varying shapes, sizes and densities. To devise a more generic clustering method that considers all the aforementioned properties of the natural clusters, we propose a novel clustering algorithm named Anchor Points based Clustering (APC). The anchor points in APC are characterized by having a relatively large distance from data points with higher densities. We take anchor points as centers to obtain intermediate clusters, which can divide the whole dataset more appropriately so as to …