Soft rank clustering

Stefano Rovetta*, Francesco Masulli, Maurizio Filippone

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Abstract

Clustering methods provide an useful tool to tackle the problem of exploring large-dimensional data. However many common approaches suffer from being applied in high-dimensional spaces. Building on a dissimilarity-based representation of data, we propose a dimensionality reduction technique which preserves the clustering structure of the data. The technique is designed for cases in which data dimensionality is large compared to the number of available observations. In these cases, we represent data in the space of soft D-ranks, by applying the concept of fuzzy ranking. A clustering procedure is then applied. Experimental results show that the method is able to retain the necessary information, while considerably reducing dimensionality.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationNeural Nets - 16th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN 2005, and International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems, NAIS 2005, Revised Selected Papers
Pages207-213
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event16th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN 2005, and International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems, NAIS 2005 - Vietri sul Mare, Italy
Duration: Jun 8 2005Jun 11 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3931 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN 2005, and International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems, NAIS 2005
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVietri sul Mare
Period06/8/0506/11/05

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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