CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Clustering Basic concepts with simple examples Categories of clustering methods Challenges 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu What is clustering? The process of grouping a set of physical or abstract objects into classes of similar objects. It is also called unsupervised learning. It is a common and important task that finds many applications Examples of clusters? Examples where we need clustering? 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

Differences from Classification How different? Which one is more difficult as a learning problem? Do we perform clustering in daily activities? How do we cluster? How to measure the results of clustering? With/without class labels Between classification and clustering Semi-supervised clustering 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

Major clustering methods Partitioning methods k-Means (and EM), k-Medoids Hierarchical methods agglomerative, divisive, BIRCH Similarity and dissimilarity of points in the same cluster and from different clusters Distance measures between clusters minimum, maximum Means of clusters Average between clusters 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Clustering -- Example 1 For simplicity, 1-dimension objects and k=2. Objects: 1, 2, 5, 6,7 K-means: Randomly select 5 and 6 as centroids; => Two clusters {1,2,5} and {6,7}; meanC1=8/3, meanC2=6.5 => {1,2}, {5,6,7}; meanC1=1.5, meanC2=6 => no change. Aggregate dissimilarity = 0.5^2 + 0.5^2 + 1^2 + 1^2 = 2.5 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Issues with k-means A heuristic method Sensitive to outliers How to prove it? Determining k Trial and error X-means, PCA-based Crisp clustering EM, Fuzzy c-means Not be confused with k-NN X-means: Extending K-means with Efficient Estimation of the Number of Clusters (2000) Dan Pelleg, Andrew Moore   C-means, http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/fuzzy/fp43419.html 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Clustering -- Example 2 For simplicity, we still use 1-dimension objects. Objects: 1, 2, 5, 6,7 agglomerative clustering – a very frequently used algorithm How to cluster: find two closest objects and merge; => {1,2}, so we have now {1.5,5, 6,7}; => {1,2}, {5,6}, so {1.5, 5.5,7}; => {1,2}, {{5,6},7}. 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

Issues with dendrograms How to find proper clusters An alternative: divisive algorithms Top down Comparing with bottom-up, which is more efficient What’s the time complexity? How to efficiently divide the data A heuristic – Minimum Spanning Tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_spanning_tree What’s the time complexity 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Distance measures Single link Measured by the shortest edge between the two clusters Complete link Measured by the longest edge Average link Measured by the average edge length An example is shown next. 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

An example to show different Links Single link Merge the nearest clusters measured by the shortest edge between the two (((A B) (C D)) E) Complete link Merge the nearest clusters measured by the longest edge between the two (((A B) E) (C D)) Average link Merge the nearest clusters measured by the average edge length between the two A B C D E 1 2 3 4 5 A B This example is from M. Dunham’s book (see the bib) E C D 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Other Methods Density-based methods DBSCAN: a cluster is a maximal set of density-connected points Core points defined using epsilon-neighborhood and minPts Apply directly density reachable (e.g., P and Q, Q and M) and density-reachable (P and M, assuming so are P and N), and density-connected (any density reachable points, P, Q, M, N) form clusters Grid-based methods STING: the lowest level is the original data statistical parameters of higher-level cells are computed from the parameters of the lower-level cells (count, mean, standard deviation, min, max, distribution Model-based methods Conceptual clustering: COBWEB Category utility Intraclass similarity Interclass dissimilarity 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Density-based DBSCAN – Density-Based Clustering of Applications with Noise It grows regions with sufficiently high density into clusters and can discover clusters of arbitrary shape in spatial databases with noise. Many existing clustering algorithms find spherical shapes of clusters DEBSCAN defines a cluster as a maximal set of density-connected points. Density is defined by an area and # of points Fig 8.9 J. Han and M. Kamber 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Defining density and connection -neighborhood of an object x (core object) (M, P, O) MinPts of objects within -neighborhood (say, 3) directly density-reachable (Q from M, M from P) Only core objects are mutually density reachable density-reachable (Q from P, P not from Q) [asymmetric] density-connected (O, R, S) [symmetric] for border points What is the relationship between DR and DC? Han & Kamber2001 Q M P S R O 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Clustering with DBSCAN Search for clusters by checking the -neighborhood of each instance x If the -neighborhood of x contains more than MinPts, create a new cluster with x as a core object Iteratively collect directly density-reachable objects from these core object and merge density-reachable clusters Terminate when no new point can be added to any cluster DBSCAN is sensitive to the thresholds of density, but it is fast Time complexity O(N log N) if a spatial index is used, O(N2) otherwise 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Neural networks Self-organizing feature maps (SOMs) Subspace clustering Clique: if a k-dimensional unit space is dense, then so are its (k-1)-d subspaces More will be discussed later Semi-supervised clustering http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/publication/unsupervised.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/risc/ 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu

CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu Challenges Scalability Dealing with different types of attributes Clusters with arbitrary shapes Automatically determining input parameters Dealing with noise (outliers) Order insensitivity of instances presented to learning High dimensionality Interpretability and usability 1/18/2019 CSE572, CBS572: Data Mining by H. Liu