[jira] [Updated] (MATH-1315) MultiKMeansPlusPlusClusterer buggy for alternative evaluators

["Rob Tompkins (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1315?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Rob Tompkins updated MATH-1315:
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    Fix Version/s: 4.0

> MultiKMeansPlusPlusClusterer buggy for alternative evaluators
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>                 Key: MATH-1315
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1315
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 3.5
>            Reporter: Thorsten Schäfer
>             Fix For: 4.0
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>         Attachments: MATH-1315.patch
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> I just looked into the source code for the MultiKMeansPlusPlusClusterer and realized that it would return null in case of an alternative evaluator that favors bigger values instead of smaller ones:
> The basic idea of the clustering method is that we perform n clusterings and choose the best result. The decision what's the best result is performed by the evaluator, which by default assumes smaller values are better. 
> According to the documentation, we can also provide a different evaluator, which for instance would decide that bigger values are better, but given we initialize the best value with Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY in method MultiKMeansPlusPlusClusterer.cluster(Collection<T>), we would never find a "better" result and thus always return null. 



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