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An Improved K-means Algorithm Based on Optimizing Initial Points

  • QIN Yu ,
  • JING Ji-Wu ,
  • XIANG Ji ,
  • ZHANG Ai-Hua
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  • The State Key Laboratory of Information Security(Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Received date: 1900-01-01

  Revised date: 1900-01-01

  Online published: 2007-11-15

Abstract

K-means is an important clustering algorithm. It is widely used in Internet information processing technologies. Because the procedure terminates at a local optimum, K-means is sensitive to initial starting condition. An improved algorithm is proposed, which searches for the relative density parts of the database and then generates initial points based on them. The method can achieve higher clustering accuracies by well excluding the effects of edge points and outliers, as well as adapt to databases which have very skewed density distributions.

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QIN Yu , JING Ji-Wu , XIANG Ji , ZHANG Ai-Hua . An Improved K-means Algorithm Based on Optimizing Initial Points[J]. Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007 , 24(6) : 771 -777 . DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2007.6.008

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