Enabling clustering algorithms to detect clusters of varying densities through scale-invariant data preprocessing

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Main Authors: Aryal, Sunil, Wells, Jonathan R., Baniya, Arbind Agrahari, Santosh, KC
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Published: 2024
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author Aryal, Sunil
Wells, Jonathan R.
Baniya, Arbind Agrahari
Santosh, KC
author_facet Aryal, Sunil
Wells, Jonathan R.
Baniya, Arbind Agrahari
Santosh, KC
contents In this paper, we show that preprocessing data using a variant of rank transformation called 'Average Rank over an Ensemble of Sub-samples (ARES)' makes clustering algorithms robust to data representation and enable them to detect varying density clusters. Our empirical results, obtained using three most widely used clustering algorithms-namely KMeans, DBSCAN, and DP (Density Peak)-across a wide range of real-world datasets, show that clustering after ARES transformation produces better and more consistent results.
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spellingShingle Enabling clustering algorithms to detect clusters of varying densities through scale-invariant data preprocessing
Aryal, Sunil
Wells, Jonathan R.
Baniya, Arbind Agrahari
Santosh, KC
Machine Learning
In this paper, we show that preprocessing data using a variant of rank transformation called 'Average Rank over an Ensemble of Sub-samples (ARES)' makes clustering algorithms robust to data representation and enable them to detect varying density clusters. Our empirical results, obtained using three most widely used clustering algorithms-namely KMeans, DBSCAN, and DP (Density Peak)-across a wide range of real-world datasets, show that clustering after ARES transformation produces better and more consistent results.
title Enabling clustering algorithms to detect clusters of varying densities through scale-invariant data preprocessing
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11402