[HTML][HTML] Understanding and enhancement of internal clustering validation indexes for categorical data

X Gao, M Yang - Algorithms, 2018 - mdpi.com
Clustering is one of the main tasks of machine learning. Internal clustering validation
indexes (CVIs) are used to measure the quality of several clustered partitions to determine …

A new internal clustering validation index for categorical data based on concentration of attribute values

L FU, S Wu - Chinese Journal of Engineering, 2019 - cje.ustb.edu.cn
Clustering is a main task of data mining, and its purpose is to identify natural structures in a
dataset. The results of cluster analysis are not only related to the nature of the data itself but …

A distance-based separability measure for internal cluster validation

S Guan, M Loew - International Journal on Artificial Intelligence …, 2022 - World Scientific
To evaluate clustering results is a significant part of cluster analysis. Since there are no true
class labels for clustering in typical unsupervised learning, many internal cluster validity …

CUBOS: An internal cluster validity index for categorical data

X Gao, S Wu - Tehnički vjesnik, 2019 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Internal cluster validity index is a powerful tool for evaluating clustering
performance. The study on internal cluster validity indices for categorical data has been a …

A new validity clustering index-based on finding new centroid positions using the mean of clustered data to determine the optimum number of clusters

AK Abdalameer, M Alswaitti, AA Alsudani… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Clustering, an unsupervised pattern classification method, plays an important role in
identifying input dataset structures. It partitions input datasets into clusters or groups where …

An internal cluster validity index using a distance-based separability measure

S Guan, M Loew - 2020 IEEE 32nd international conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To evaluate clustering results is a significant part of cluster analysis. There are no true class
labels for clustering in typical unsupervised learning. Thus, a number of internal evaluations …

An effective partitional clustering algorithm based on new clustering validity index

E Zhu, R Ma - Applied soft computing, 2018 - Elsevier
As an unsupervised pattern classification method, clustering partitions the input datasets into
groups or clusters. It plays an important role in identifying the natural structure of the target …

Understanding and enhancement of internal clustering validation measures

Y Liu, Z Li, H Xiong, X Gao, J Wu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clustering validation has long been recognized as one of the vital issues essential to the
success of clustering applications. In general, clustering validation can be categorized into …

Ground truth bias in external cluster validity indices

Y Lei, JC Bezdek, S Romano, NX Vinh, J Chan… - Pattern Recognition, 2017 - Elsevier
External cluster validity indices (CVIs) are used to quantify the quality of a clustering by
comparing the similarity between the clustering and a ground truth partition. However, some …

Cluster validity index for irregular clustering results

S Liang, D Han, Y Yang - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Different clustering algorithms with different parameter settings can produce various
partitions on the input data. Without the priori knowledge, it is difficult for users to select the …