TANGO: Clustering with Typicality-Aware Nonlocal Mode-Seeking and Graph-Cut Optimization

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Main Authors: Ma, Haowen, Long, Zhiguo, Meng, Hua
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Published: 2024
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author Ma, Haowen
Long, Zhiguo
Meng, Hua
author_facet Ma, Haowen
Long, Zhiguo
Meng, Hua
contents Density-based mode-seeking methods generate a \emph{density-ascending dependency} from low-density points towards higher-density neighbors. Current mode-seeking methods identify modes by breaking some dependency connections, but relying heavily on local data characteristics, requiring case-by-case threshold settings or human intervention to be effective for different datasets. To address this issue, we introduce a novel concept called \emph{typicality}, by exploring the \emph{locally defined} dependency from a \emph{global} perspective, to quantify how confident a point would be a mode. We devise an algorithm that effectively and efficiently identifies modes with the help of the global-view typicality. To implement and validate our idea, we design a clustering method called TANGO, which not only leverages typicality to detect modes, but also utilizes graph-cut with an improved \emph{path-based similarity} to aggregate data into the final clusters. Moreover, this paper also provides some theoretical analysis on the proposed algorithm. Experimental results on several synthetic and extensive real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of TANGO. The code is available at https://github.com/SWJTU-ML/TANGO_code.
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spellingShingle TANGO: Clustering with Typicality-Aware Nonlocal Mode-Seeking and Graph-Cut Optimization
Ma, Haowen
Long, Zhiguo
Meng, Hua
Machine Learning
Density-based mode-seeking methods generate a \emph{density-ascending dependency} from low-density points towards higher-density neighbors. Current mode-seeking methods identify modes by breaking some dependency connections, but relying heavily on local data characteristics, requiring case-by-case threshold settings or human intervention to be effective for different datasets. To address this issue, we introduce a novel concept called \emph{typicality}, by exploring the \emph{locally defined} dependency from a \emph{global} perspective, to quantify how confident a point would be a mode. We devise an algorithm that effectively and efficiently identifies modes with the help of the global-view typicality. To implement and validate our idea, we design a clustering method called TANGO, which not only leverages typicality to detect modes, but also utilizes graph-cut with an improved \emph{path-based similarity} to aggregate data into the final clusters. Moreover, this paper also provides some theoretical analysis on the proposed algorithm. Experimental results on several synthetic and extensive real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of TANGO. The code is available at https://github.com/SWJTU-ML/TANGO_code.
title TANGO: Clustering with Typicality-Aware Nonlocal Mode-Seeking and Graph-Cut Optimization
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10084