DSLGMLJul 11, 2014

Density Adaptive Parallel Clustering

arXiv:1407.3242v1
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This addresses clustering challenges for data analysis by offering an incremental improvement over existing methods.

The paper tackles the problem of clustering by introducing a new nearest neighbors-based algorithm that is deterministic, simpler, faster, and does not require pre-specifying the number of clusters, comparing it with previous solutions like DBscan and minimum spanning tree approaches.

In this paper we are going to introduce a new nearest neighbours based approach to clustering, and compare it with previous solutions; the resulting algorithm, which takes inspiration from both DBscan and minimum spanning tree approaches, is deterministic but proves simpler, faster and doesnt require to set in advance a value for k, the number of clusters.

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