Unsupervised learning: Self-aggregation in scaled principal component space

  • Chris Ding*
  • , Xiaofeng He
  • , Hongyuan Zha
  • , Horst Simon
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We demonstrate that data clustering amounts to a dynamic process of self-aggregation in which data objects move towards each other to form clusters, revealing the inherent pattern of similarity. Selfaggregation is governed by connectivity and occurs in a space obtained by a nonlinear scaling of principal component analysis (PCA). The method combines dimensionality reduction with clustering into a single framework. It can apply to both square similarity matrices and rectangular association matrices.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPrinciples of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - 6th European Conference, PKDD 2002, Proceedings
EditorsTapio Elomaa, Heikki Mannila, Hannu Toivonen
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages112-124
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)3540440372, 9783540440376
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
Externally publishedYes
Event6th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, PKDD 2002 - Helsinki, Finland
Duration: 19 Aug 200223 Aug 2002

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2431 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, PKDD 2002
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityHelsinki
Period19/08/0223/08/02

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