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Improved K-means algorithm for clustering non-spherical data

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Honglei He
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Yuxuan He
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Wang Fang
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Wenming Zhu *
DOI:10.1111/exsy.13062delete
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As one of the commonly used data mining algorithms, K-means has the advantage of fast clustering speed, but the disadvantage is that it is less effective for clustering non-spherical data. An improved K-means algorithm (IK-means) is proposed to enhance clustering efficiency for non-spherical data. The original dataset is clustered into a relatively larger number of high-density sub-clusters, and the final result is obtained by merging connected sub-clusters respectively. The connectivity among sub-clusters is evaluated by the sub-clusters density and the nearest distance class between sub-clusters. By testing on University of California, Irvine(UCI) datasets and several other artificial simulation datasets, the comparison of proposed IK-means algorithm against DBSCAN, KGFCM shows its clustering capability for data of arbitrary shape. The clustering Adjusted Rand Index (ARI) value for 72,000 sizes data is 24% higher than DBSCAN, and 95.2% higher than KGFCM. For larger datasets, the IK-means algorithm is faster than DBSCAN and KGFCM.
Keywords:
arbitrary shape
clustering
improved algorithm
K-means
non-spherical

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