Line Space Clustering (LSC): Feature-Based Clustering using K-medians and Dynamic Time Warping for Versatility

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Auteurs principaux: Chulev, Joanikij, Mladenovska, Angela
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author Chulev, Joanikij
Mladenovska, Angela
author_facet Chulev, Joanikij
Mladenovska, Angela
contents Clustering high-dimensional data is a critical challenge in machine learning due to the curse of dimensionality and the presence of noise. Traditional clustering algorithms often fail to capture the intrinsic structures in such data. This paper explores a combination of clustering methods, which we called Line Space Clustering (LSC), a representation that transforms data points into lines in a newly defined feature space, enabling clustering based on the similarity of feature value patterns, essentially treating features as sequences. LSC employs a combined distance metric that uses Euclidean and Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distances, weighted by a parameter α, allowing flexibility in emphasizing shape or magnitude similarities. We delve deeply into the mechanics of DTW and the Savitzky Golay filter, explaining their roles in the algorithm. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficacy of LSC on synthetic and real-world datasets, showing that randomly experimenting with time-series optimized methods sometimes might surprisingly work on a complex dataset, particularly in noisy environments. Source code and experiments are available at: https://github.com/JoanikijChulev/LSC.
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spellingShingle Line Space Clustering (LSC): Feature-Based Clustering using K-medians and Dynamic Time Warping for Versatility
Chulev, Joanikij
Mladenovska, Angela
Machine Learning
Clustering high-dimensional data is a critical challenge in machine learning due to the curse of dimensionality and the presence of noise. Traditional clustering algorithms often fail to capture the intrinsic structures in such data. This paper explores a combination of clustering methods, which we called Line Space Clustering (LSC), a representation that transforms data points into lines in a newly defined feature space, enabling clustering based on the similarity of feature value patterns, essentially treating features as sequences. LSC employs a combined distance metric that uses Euclidean and Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distances, weighted by a parameter α, allowing flexibility in emphasizing shape or magnitude similarities. We delve deeply into the mechanics of DTW and the Savitzky Golay filter, explaining their roles in the algorithm. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficacy of LSC on synthetic and real-world datasets, showing that randomly experimenting with time-series optimized methods sometimes might surprisingly work on a complex dataset, particularly in noisy environments. Source code and experiments are available at: https://github.com/JoanikijChulev/LSC.
title Line Space Clustering (LSC): Feature-Based Clustering using K-medians and Dynamic Time Warping for Versatility
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15777