Abstract. In this paper a rigorous mathematical framework of deterministic annealing and mean-field approximation is presented for a general class of partitioning, clustering and ...
1 Several clustering algorithms have been proposed for class identification in spatial databases such as earth observation databases. The effectivity of the well-known algorithms ...
We analyze the application of ensemble learning to recommender systems on the Netflix Prize dataset. For our analysis we use a set of diverse state-of-the-art collaborative filt...
Clustering is often formulated as the maximum likelihood estimation of a mixture model that explains the data. The EM algorithm widely used to solve the resulting optimization pro...
Clustering methods usually require to know the best number of clusters, or another parameter, e.g. a threshold, which is not ever easy to provide. This paper proposes a new graph-b...