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Supervised k-Means Clustering

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The k-means clustering algorithm is one of the most widely used, effective, and best understood clustering methods. However, successful use of k-means requires a carefully chosen distance measure that reflects the properties of the clustering task. Since designing this distance measure by hand is often difficult, we provide methods for training k-means using supervised data. Given training data in the form of sets of items with their desired partitioning, we provide a structural SVM method that learns a distance measure so that k-means produces the desired clusterings. We propose two variants of the methods -- one based on a spectral relaxation and one based on the traditional k-means algorithm -- that are both computationally efficient. For each variant, we provide a theoretical characterization of its accuracy in solving the training problem. We also provide an empirical clustering quality and runtime analysis of these learning methods on varied high-dimensional datasets.

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This work was supported under NSF Award IIS-0713483 ``Learning Structure to Structure Mapping,'' and through a gift from Yahoo! Inc.

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2008-11-18T05:14:17Z

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machine learning; k-means; clustering; computer science

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