Title
Clustering by finding prominent peaks in density space.
Abstract
Recently, density peaks clustering (DPC) has received much attention. The key step in DPC is to find the nearest denser point (NDP) for each point. If a point and its NDP are close, they are in the same cluster; otherwise, they are in different clusters. However, the density gap between a point and its NDP is not considered in DPC. Once the point and its NDP are close, they are assigned to the same cluster, even if the density gap between them is large, which could result in poor clustering results. In this study, we propose a clustering algorithm based on finding prominent peaks (prominent peak clustering, PPC). Its main concept is to divide points into multiple potential clusters and then merge clusters whose density peaks are not prominent to obtain accurate clustering results. The prominence of cluster density peaks is measured by the density gap. Experimental results on low- and high-dimensional datasets demonstrate that PPC is competitive with other clustering techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.engappai.2019.07.015
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
Clustering,Density estimation,Density peaks,Density gap
Cluster (physics),Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Algorithm,Cluster analysis,Merge (version control)
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
85
0952-1976
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Ni184.18
Wenjian Luo235640.95
Wenjie Zhu331.40
Wenjie Liu400.34