[jira] [Updated] (MAHOUT-1162) Adding BallKMeans and StreamingKMeans classes

["Ted Dunning (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1162?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Ted Dunning updated MAHOUT-1162:
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    Fix Version/s: 0.8
    
> Adding BallKMeans and StreamingKMeans classes
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAHOUT-1162
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1162
>             Project: Mahout
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Clustering
>    Affects Versions: 0.8
>            Reporter: Dan Filimon
>             Fix For: 0.8
>
>         Attachments: MAHOUT_1162_with_test.patch
>
>
> Adding BallKMeans and StreamingKMeans clustering algorithms.
> These both implement Iterable<Centroid> and thus return the resulting centroids after clustering.
> BallKMeans implements:
> - kmeans++ initialization;
> - a normal k-means pass;
> - a trimming threshold so that points that are too far from the cluster they were assigned to are not used in the new centroid computation.
> StreamingKMeans implements [http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips24/NIPS2011_1271.pdf]:
> - an online clustering algorithm that takes each point into account one by one
>   - for each point, it computes the distance to the nearest existing cluster
>   - if the distance is greater than a set distanceCutoff, it will create a new cluster, otherwise it might be added to the cluster it's closest to (proportional to the value of the distance / distanceCutoff)
>   - if there are too many clusters, the clusters will be *collapsed* (the same method gets called, but the number of clusters is re-adjusted)
> - finally, *about as many* clusters as requested are returned (not precise!); this represents a sketch of the original points.

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