Nonnegative Lagrangian relaxation of K-means and spectral clustering

Chris Ding, Xiaofeng He, Horst D. Simon

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Abstract

We show that K-means and spectral clustering objective functions can be written as a trace of quadratic forms. Instead of relaxation by eigenvectors, we propose a novel relaxation maintaining the nonnegativity of the cluster indicators and thus give the cluster posterior probabilities, therefore resolving cluster assignment difficulty in spectral relaxation. We derive a multiplicative updating algorithm to solve the nonnegative relaxation problem. The method is briefly extended to semi-supervised classification and semi-supervised clustering.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning - ECML 2005
Subtitle of host publication16th European Conference on Machine Learning, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages530-538
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)3540292438, 9783540292432
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event16th European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML 2005 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 3 Oct 20057 Oct 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3720 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML 2005
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period3/10/057/10/05

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