Title
Constructing affinity matrix in spectral clustering based on neighbor propagation
Abstract
Ng-Jordan-Weiss (NJW) spectral clustering method partitions data using the largest K eigenvectors of the normalized affinity matrix derived from a dataset, but when the dataset is of complex structure, the affinity matrix constructed by traditional Gaussian function could not reflect the real similarity among data points, then the decision of clustering number and selection of K largest eigenvectors are not always effective. Constructing a good affinity matrix is very important to spectral clustering. A new affinity matrix generation method is proposed by using neighbor relation propagation principle and a neighbor relation propagation algorithm is also given. The affinity matrix generated can increase the similarity of point pairs that should be in same cluster and can well detect the structure of data. An improved multi-way spectral clustering algorithm is proposed then. We have performed experiments on dataset of complex structure, adopting Tian Xia and his partner's method for a baseline. The experiment result shows that our affinity matrix well reflects the real similarity among data points and selecting the largest K Eigenvectors gives the correct partition. We have also made comparison with NJW method on some common datasets, the results show that our method is more robust.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.neucom.2012.06.023
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
affinity matrix,njw method,complex structure,spectral clustering method partition,new affinity matrix generation,normalized affinity matrix,data point,neighbor propagation,largest k eigenvectors,good affinity matrix,real similarity,spectral clustering,pattern recognition
Data point,Spectral clustering,Normalization (statistics),Pattern recognition,Affinity propagation,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Partition (number theory),Gaussian function,Eigenvalues and eigenvectors,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
97,
0925-2312
15
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.62
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin-Ye Li1211.59
Li-Jie Guo2182.46