Title
Recovering Trees With Convex Clustering
Abstract
Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning task, whose aim is to organize a collection of points into a tree of nested clusters. Convex clustering has been proposed recently as a new way to construct tree organizations of data that are more robust to perturbations in the input data than standard hierarchical clustering algorithms. In this paper, we present conditions that guarantee when the convex clustering solution path recovers a tree and also make explicit how affinity parameters in the convex clustering formulation modulate the structure of the recovered tree. The proof of our main result relies on establishing a novel property of point clouds in a Hilbert space, which is potentially of independent interest.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1137/18M121099X
SIAM JOURNAL ON MATHEMATICS OF DATA SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
convex optimization, fused lasso, hierarchical clustering, penalized regression, sparsity
Mathematical optimization,Combinatorics,Regular polygon,Mathematics,Unit vector
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
1
3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eric C. Chi1936.89
Stefan Steinerberger21812.80