Incremental cluster validity indices for online learning of hard partitions: Extensions and comparative study

LEB Da Silva, NM Melton, DC Wunsch - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Validation is one of the most important aspects of clustering, particularly when the user is
designing a trustworthy or explainable system. However, most clustering validation …

Analysis of incremental cluster validity for big data applications

OA Ibrahim, Y Wang, JM Keller - International Journal of Uncertainty …, 2018 - World Scientific
Online clustering has attracted attention due to the explosion of ubiquitous continuous
sensing. Streaming clustering algorithms need to look for new structures and adapt as the …

[PDF][PDF] Clustervalidityindices. jl: Batch and incremental metrics for unsupervised learning

S Petrenko, DC Wunsch - Journal of Open Source Software, 2022 - joss.theoj.org
ClusterValidityIndices. jl is a Julia package for evaluating the performance of clustering
algorithms without the aid of supervised labels. Cluster Validity Indices (CVI) provide a …

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 …

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 …

Integrating cluster validity indices based on data envelopment analysis

B Kim, H Lee, P Kang - Applied Soft Computing, 2018 - Elsevier
Because clustering is an unsupervised learning task, a number of different validity indices
have been proposed to measure the quality of the clustering results. However, there is no …

[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 …

Incremental cluster validity index-guided online learning for performance and robustness to presentation order

LEB da Silva, N Rayapati… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In streaming data applications, the incoming samples are processed and discarded, and
therefore, intelligent decision-making is crucial for the performance of lifelong learning …

Ensembling validation indices to estimate the optimal number of clusters

B Sowan, TP Hong, A Al-Qerem, M Alauthman… - Applied …, 2023 - Springer
In unsupervised learning tasks, one of the most significant and challenging aspects is how to
estimate the optimal number of clusters (NC) for a particular set of data. Identifying NC in a …

A cluster validity evaluation method for dynamically determining the near-optimal number of clusters

X Li, W Liang, X Zhang, S Qing, PC Chang - Soft Computing, 2020 - Springer
Cluster validity evaluation is a hot issue in clustering algorithm research. Aiming at
determining the optimal number of clusters in cluster validity evaluation, this paper proposes …