Title
Multilevel Clustering via Wasserstein Means.
Abstract
We propose a novel approach to the problem of multilevel clustering, which aims to simultaneously partition data in each group and discover grouping patterns among groups in a potentially large hierarchically structured corpus of data. Our method involves a joint optimization formulation over several spaces of discrete probability measures, which are endowed with Wasserstein distance metrics. We propose a number of variants of this problem, which admit fast optimization algorithms, by exploiting the connection to the problem of finding Wasserstein barycenters. Consistency properties are established for the estimates of both local and global clusters. Finally, experiment results with both synthetic and real data are presented to demonstrate the flexibility and scalability of the proposed approach.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
international conference on machine learning
Cluster (physics),Mathematical optimization,Probability measure,Optimization algorithm,Cluster analysis,Partition (number theory),Mathematics,Scalability
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
3
0.39
References 
Authors
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nhat Ho157.87
XuanLong Nguyen241631.22
Yurochkin, Mikhail356.84
Hung Hai Bui41188112.37
Viet Huynh531.74
Dinh Q. Phung61469144.58