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Optimal initialization of K-means using Particle Swarm Optimization

Machine Learning 2019-04-22 v1 Neural and Evolutionary Computing Machine Learning

Abstract

This paper proposes the use of an optimization algorithm, namely PSO to decide the initial centroids in K-means, to eventually get better accuracy. The vectorized notation of the optimal centroids can be thought of as entities in an optimization space, where the accuracy of K-means over a random subset of the data could act as a fitness measure. The resultant optimal vector can be used as the initial centroids for K-means.

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@article{arxiv.1904.09098,
  title  = {Optimal initialization of K-means using Particle Swarm Optimization},
  author = {Ashutosh Mahesh Pednekar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09098},
  year   = {2019}
}
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