摘要
Affinity propagation(AP)is a classic clustering algorithm.To improve the classical AP algorithms,we propose a clustering algorithm namely,adaptive spectral affinity propagation(AdaSAP).In particular,we discuss why AP is not suitable for non-spherical clusters and present a unifying view of nine famous arbitrary-shaped clustering algorithms.We propose a strategy of extending AP in non-spherical clustering by constructing category similarity of objects.Leveraging the monotonicity that the clusters’number increases with the self-similarity in AP,we propose a model selection procedure that can determine the number of clusters adaptively.For the parameters introduced by extending AP in non-spherical clustering,we provide a grid-evolving strategy to optimize them automatically.The effectiveness of AdaSAP is evaluated by experiments on both synthetic datasets and real-world clustering tasks.Experimental results validate that the superiority of AdaSAP over benchmark algorithms like the classical AP and spectral clustering algorithms.
基金
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71771034,71901011,71971039)
the Scientific and Technological Innovation Foundation of Dalian(2018J11CY009).
