Similarity-Based Clustering: Recent Developments and by Michael Biehl, Nestor Caticha, Peter Riegler (auth.),

By Michael Biehl, Nestor Caticha, Peter Riegler (auth.), Michael Biehl, Barbara Hammer, Michel Verleysen, Thomas Villmann (eds.)

This e-book is the end result of the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Similarity-Based Clustering" held at Dagstuhl fort, Germany, in Spring 2007.

In 3 chapters, the 3 basic elements of a theoretical history, the illustration of knowledge and their connection to algorithms, and specific hard purposes are thought of. issues mentioned hindrance a theoretical research and starting place of prototype dependent studying algorithms, the advance and extension of versions to instructions similar to common info constructions and the appliance for the area of medication and biology.

Similarity dependent equipment locate frequent functions in various software domain names, together with biomedical difficulties, but in addition in distant sensing, geoscience or different technical domain names. The displays provide a superb assessment approximately very important examine leads to similarity-based studying, wherein the nature of review articles with references to correlated learn articles makes the contributions fairly suited to a primary examining relating those topics.

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5 4 Fig. 5. Left: RL1 result after many iterations but before convergence. Right: RL1 result after convergence. Immediate Reward Reinforcement Learning 43 where again k∗ = arg minj x − mj . The reward function (15) has values ranged between 0 and 1. We need to update the closest prototype (or most similar one) by giving it directly the maximum possible reward value, which equals 1, to allow it to learn more than others and also to avoid any division by zero, which may happen using the second equation in (15).

To show how these algorithms behave with dead prototypes, we have Figure 7, left, which contains some. Figure 7, right, shows the result after applying the Bernoulli algorithm to the same artificial data set as Figure 6, top left, but with very poor prototypes’ initialization as shown in Figure 7, left. The Bernoulli algorithm gave bad results and there are 7 dead prototypes which don’t learn. Figure 8 shows the result after applying the RL2 algorithm to the same artificial data set. From Figure 8, top and bottom left, we can see some prototypes still distant from the data points while others spread into data.

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