Affiliation:
1. Shanxi University, Shanxi Province, China
2. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
3. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Abstract
Clustering ensemble has drawn much attention in recent years due to its ability to generate a high quality and robust partition result. Weighted clustering ensemble and selective clustering ensemble are two general ways to further improve the performance of a clustering ensemble method. Existing weighted clustering ensemble methods assign the same weight to each cluster in a partition of the ensemble. Since the qualities of the clusters in a partition are different, the clusters should be weighted differently. To address this issue, this article proposes a new measure to calculate the similarity between a cluster and a partition. Theoretically, this measure is effective in handling two problems in measuring the quality of a cluster, which are defined as the symmetric problem and the context meaning problem. In addition, some properties of the proposed measure are analyzed. This measure can be easily expanded to a clustering performance measure that calculates the similarity between two partitions. As a result of this measure, we propose a novel selective clustering ensemble framework, which considers the differences between the objective of the ensemble selection stage and the object of the ensemble integration stage in the selective clustering ensemble. To verify the performance of the new measure, we compare the performance of the measure with the two existing measures in weighting clusters. The experiments show that the proposed measure is more effective. To verify the performance of the novel framework, four existing state-of-the-art selective clustering ensemble frameworks are employed as references. The experiments show that the proposed framework is statistically better than the others on 17 UCI benchmark datasets, 8 document datasets, and the Olivetti Face Database.
Funder
National Natural Science Fund of China
Program for the Outstanding Innovative Teams of Higher Learning Institutions of Shanxi
Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University
Program for the Young San Jin Scholars of Shanxi
Hong Kong SAR Government
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Cited by
22 articles.
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