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Spectral Relaxation for K-means Clustering

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Spectral Relaxation for K-means Clustering
The popular K-means clustering partitions a data set by minimizing a sum-of-squares cost function. A coordinate descend method is then used to nd local minima. In this paper we show that the minimization can be reformulated as a trace maximization problem associated with the Gram matrix of the data vectors. Furthermore, we show that a relaxed version of the trace maximization problem possesses global optimal solutions which can be obtained by computing a partial eigendecomposition of the Gram matrix, and the cluster assignment for each data vectors can be found by computing a pivoted QR decomposition of the eigenvector matrix. As a by-product we also derive a lower bound for the minimum of the sum-of-squares cost function.
Hongyuan Zha, Xiaofeng He, Chris H. Q. Ding, Ming
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Type Conference
Year 2001
Where NIPS
Authors Hongyuan Zha, Xiaofeng He, Chris H. Q. Ding, Ming Gu, Horst D. Simon
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