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Data Mining
Cluster Analysis: Advanced Concepts
and Algorithms

Lecture Notes for Chapter 8

Introduction to Data Mining

Tan, Steinbach, Kumar

Hierarchical Clustering: Revisited

Creates nested clusters

Agglomerative clustering algorithms vary in terms of how the proximity of two clusters are computed
MIN (single link): susceptible to noise/outliers
MAX/GROUP AVERAGE:
may not work well with non-globular clusters

CURE algorithm tries to handle both problems

Often starts with a proximity matrix
A type of graph-based algorithm

Uses a number of points to represent a cluster

Representative points are found by selecting a constant number of points from a cluster and then “shrinking” them toward the center of the cluster

Cluster similarity is the similarity of the closest pair of representative points from different clusters

CURE: Another Hierarchical Approach

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CURE

Shrinking representative points toward the center helps avoid problems with noise and outliers
CURE is better able to handle clusters of arbitrary shapes and sizes

Graph-Based Clustering

Graph-Based clustering uses the proximity graph
Start with the proximity matrix
Consider each point as a node in a graph
Each edge between two nodes has a weight which is the proximity between the two points
Initially the proximity graph is fully connected
MIN (single-link) and MAX (complete-link) can be viewed as starting with this graph
In the simplest case, clusters are connected components in the graph.

Graph-Based Clustering: Sparsification

The amount of data that needs to be processed is drastically reduced
Sparsification can eliminate more than 99% of the entries in a proximity matrix
The amount of time required to cluster the data is drastically reduced
The size of the problems that can be handled is increased

Graph-Based Clustering: Sparsification …

Clustering may work better
Sparsification techniques keep the connections to the most similar (nearest) neighbors of a point while breaking the connections to less similar points.
The nearest neighbors of a point tend to belong to the same class as the point itself.
This reduces the impact of noise and outliers and sharpens the distinction between clusters.

Sparsification facilitates the use of graph partitioning algorithms (or algorithms based on graph partitioning algorithms.
Chameleon and Hypergraph-based Clustering

Limitations of Current Merging Schemes

Existing merging schemes in hierarchical clustering algorithms are static in nature
MIN or CURE:
merge two clusters based on their closeness (or minimum distance)
GROUP-AVERAGE:
merge two clusters based on their average connectivity

Chameleon: Steps

Preprocessing Step:
Represent the Data by a Graph
Given a set of points, construct the k-nearest-neighbor (k-NN) graph to capture the relationship between a point and its k nearest neighbors
Concept of neighborhood is captured dynamically (even if region is sparse)

Phase 1: Use a multilevel graph partitioning algorithm on the graph to find a large number of clusters of well-connected vertices
Each cluster should contain mostly points from one “true” cluster, i.e., is a sub-cluster of a “real” cluster

Chameleon: Steps …

Phase 2: Use Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering to merge sub-clusters
Two clusters are combined if the resulting cluster shares certain properties with the constituent clusters

Two key properties used to model cluster similarity:
Relative Interconnectivity: Absolute interconnectivity of two clusters normalized by the internal connectivity of the clusters

Relative Closeness: Absolute closeness of two clusters normalized by the internal closeness of the clusters

ROCK (RObust Clustering using linKs)

Clustering algorithm for data with categorical and Boolean attributes
A pair of points is defined to be neighbors if their similarity is greater than some threshold
Use a hierarchical clustering scheme to cluster the data.

Obtain a sample of points from the data set

Compute the link value for each set of points, i.e., transform the original similarities (computed by Jaccard coefficient) into similarities that reflect the number of shared neighbors between points

Perform an agglomerative hierarchical clustering on the data using the “number of shared neighbors” as similarity measure and maximizing “the shared neighbors” objective function

Assign the remaining points to the clusters that have been found

Jarvis-Patrick Clustering

First, the k-nearest neighbors of all points are found
In graph terms this can be regarded as breaking all but the k strongest links from a point to other points in the proximity graph

A pair of points is put in the same cluster if
any two points share more than T neighbors and
the two points are in each others k nearest neighbor list

For instance, we might choose a nearest neighbor list of size 20 and put points in the same cluster if they share more than 10 near neighbors
Jarvis-Patrick clustering is too brittle

SNN Clustering Algorithm

Compute the similarity matrix
This corresponds to a similarity graph with data points for nodes and edges whose weights are the similarities between data points

Sparsify the similarity matrix by keeping only the k most similar neighbors
This corresponds to only keeping the k strongest links of the similarity graph

Construct the shared nearest neighbor graph from the sparsified similarity matrix.
At this point, we could apply a similarity threshold and find the connected components to obtain the clusters (Jarvis-Patrick algorithm)

Find the SNN density of each Point.
Using a user specified parameters, Eps, find the number points that have an SNN similarity of Eps or greater to each point. This is the SNN density of the point

SNN Clustering Algorithm …

Find the core points
Using a user specified parameter, MinPts, find the core points, i.e., all points that have an SNN density greater than MinPts

Form clusters from the core points
If two core points are within a radius, Eps, of each other they are place in the same cluster

Discard all noise points
All non-core points that are not within a radius of Eps of a core point are discarded

Assign all non-noise, non-core points to clusters
This can be done by assigning such points to the nearest core point

(Note that steps 4-8 are DBSCAN)

Features and Limitations of SNN Clustering

Does not cluster all the points
Complexity of SNN Clustering is high
O( n * time to find numbers of neighbor within Eps)
In worst case, this is O(n2)
For lower dimensions, there are more efficient ways to find the nearest neighbors
R* Tree
k-d Trees