Title
A general soft-balanced clustering framework based on a novel balance regularizer
Abstract
•A soft-balanced clustering framework is proposed in this paper, in which a novel regular objective is adopted to meet the balance requirement, and the balance of clustering can be flexibly adjusted by a parameter.•We skillfully apply this framework to the k-means algorithm to propose a balanced k-means with novel constraint (BKNC) model, which improves the balance of clustering results while retaining the efficient and convenient characteristics of k-means.•Extensive experimental results on real-world datasets show that the proposed BKNC outperforms other state-of-the-art hard-balanced and soft-balanced k-means methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.sigpro.2022.108572
Signal Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Clustering,Balanced clustering,Soft-balanced clustering,Balance regularizer
Journal
198
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0165-1684
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huimin Chen100.34
Qianrong Zhang200.34
Rong Wang300.34
Feiping Nie400.34
Xuelong Li515049617.31