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A Simple Approach to Sparse Clustering

Machine Learning 2017-03-01 v2

Abstract

Consider the problem of sparse clustering, where it is assumed that only a subset of the features are useful for clustering purposes. In the framework of the COSA method of Friedman and Meulman, subsequently improved in the form of the Sparse K-means method of Witten and Tibshirani, a natural and simpler hill-climbing approach is introduced. The new method is shown to be competitive with these two methods and others.

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@article{arxiv.1602.07277,
  title  = {A Simple Approach to Sparse Clustering},
  author = {Ery Arias-Castro and Xiao Pu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07277},
  year   = {2017}
}
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