Title
Social Network Optimization For Cluster Ensemble Selection
Abstract
This paper studies the cluster ensemble selection problem for unsupervised learning. Given a large ensemble of clustering solutions, our goal is to select a subset of solutions to form a smaller yet better performing cluster ensemble than using all available solutions. The common way of aggregating the chosen solutions is accumulating the information of the selected results to a similarity matrix. This paper suggests transforming the similarity matrix to a modularity matrix and then applying a new consensus function which optimizes modularity measure in it. We represent the modularity maximization problem as a 0-1 quadratic program which can be exactly solved for small datasets. We also established a new greedy algorithm, namely sum linkage, to optimize the objective function specially for large scale datasets in a very short time. We show that the proposed consensus partition gets much closer to the actual cluster structure than the partitions obtained from the direct application of common cluster ensemble methods. The promising results compared with other most cited consensus functions show the excellent efficiency of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3233/FI-2020-1964
FUNDAMENTA INFORMATICAE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cluster Ensemble Selection, Modularity Optimization, Mathematical Programming, Sum Linkage Algorithm
Journal
176
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0169-2968
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chenyue Zhao100.34
Hosein Alizadeh212110.07
Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli360557.30
Majid Mohamadpoor400.34
Hamid Parvin526341.94
Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi6105.00