Han/Eick: Clustering II 1 Clustering Part2 continued 1. BIRCH skipped 2. Density-based Clustering --- DBSCAN and DENCLUE 3. GRID-based Approaches --- STING and CLIQUE 4. SOM skipped 5. Cluster Validation other set of transparencies 6. Outlier/Anomaly Detection other set of transparencies Slides in red will be used for Part1.

Han/Eick: Clustering II 2 BIRCH (1996) Birch: Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using Hierarchies, by Zhang, Ramakrishnan, Livny (SIGMOD ’ 96) Incrementally construct a CF (Clustering Feature) tree, a hierarchical data structure for multiphase clustering Phase 1: scan DB to build an initial in-memory CF tree (a multi-level compression of the data that tries to preserve the inherent clustering structure of the data) Phase 2: use an arbitrary clustering algorithm to cluster the leaf nodes of the CF-tree Scales linearly: finds a good clustering with a single scan and improves the quality with a few additional scans Weakness: handles only numeric data, and sensitive to the order of the data record.

Han/Eick: Clustering II 3 Clustering Feature Vector Clustering Feature: CF = (N, LS, SS) N: Number of data points LS:  N i=1 =X i SS:  N i=1 =X i 2 CF = (5, (16,30),(54,190)) (3,4) (2,6) (4,5) (4,7) (3,8)

Han/Eick: Clustering II 4 CF Tree CF 1 child 1 CF 3 child 3 CF 2 child 2 CF 6 child 6 CF 1 child 1 CF 3 child 3 CF 2 child 2 CF 5 child 5 CF 1 CF 2 CF 6 prevnext CF 1 CF 2 CF 4 prevnext B = 7 L = 6 Root Non-leaf node Leaf node

Han/Eick: Clustering II 5 Chapter 8. Cluster Analysis What is Cluster Analysis? Types of Data in Cluster Analysis A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods Partitioning Methods Hierarchical Methods Density-Based Methods Grid-Based Methods Model-Based Clustering Methods Outlier Analysis Summary

Han/Eick: Clustering II 6 Density-Based Clustering Methods Clustering based on density (local cluster criterion), such as density-connected points or based on an explicitly constructed density function Major features: Discover clusters of arbitrary shape Handle noise Usually one scan Need density estimation parameters Several interesting studies: DBSCAN: Ester, et al. (KDD ’ 96) OPTICS: Ankerst, et al (SIGMOD ’ 99). DENCLUE: Hinneburg & D. Keim (KDD ’ 98) CLIQUE: Agrawal, et al. (SIGMOD ’ 98)

Han/Eick: Clustering II 7 DBSCAN Two parameters: Eps: Maximum radius of the neighbourhood MinPts: Minimum number of points in an Eps- neighbourhood of that point N Eps (p):{q belongs to D | dist(p,q) <= Eps} Directly density-reachable: A point p is directly density- reachable from a point q wrt. Eps, MinPts if 1) p belongs to N Eps (q) 2) core point condition: |N Eps (q)| >= MinPts p q MinPts = 5 Eps = 1 cm

Han/Eick: Clustering II 8 Density-Based Clustering: Background (II) Density-reachable: A point p is density-reachable from a point q wrt. Eps, MinPts if there is a chain of points p 1, …, p n, p 1 = q, p n = p such that p i+1 is directly density-reachable from p i Density-connected A point p is density-connected to a point q wrt. Eps, MinPts if there is a point o such that both, p and q are density-reachable from o wrt. Eps and MinPts. p q p1p1 pq o

Han/Eick: Clustering II 9 DBSCAN: Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise Relies on a density-based notion of cluster: A cluster is defined as a maximal set of density-connected points Discovers clusters of arbitrary shape in spatial databases with noise Core Border Outlier Eps = 1cm MinPts = 5 Density reachable from core point Not density reachable from core point

Han/Eick: Clustering II 10 DBSCAN: The Algorithm Arbitrary select a point p Retrieve all points density-reachable from p wrt Eps and MinPts. If p is a core point, a cluster is formed. If p ia not a core point, no points are density- reachable from p and DBSCAN visits the next point of the database. Continue the process until all of the points have been processed.

Han/Eick: Clustering II 11 Density-based Clustering: Pros and Cons +: can discover clusters of arbitrary shape +: not sensitive to outliers and supports outlier detection +: can handle noise +  : medium algorithm complexities  : finding good density estimation parameters is frequently difficult; more difficult to use than K-means.  : usually, do not do well in clustering high-dimensional datasets.  : cluster models are not well understood (yet)

Han/Eick: Clustering II 12 DENCLUE: using density functions DENsity-based CLUstEring by Hinneburg & Keim (KDD ’ 98) Major features Solid mathematical foundation Good for data sets with large amounts of noise Allows a compact mathematical description of arbitrarily shaped clusters in high-dimensional data sets Significant faster than existing algorithm (faster than DBSCAN by a factor of up to 45) But needs a large number of parameters

Han/Eick: Clustering II 13 Influence function: describes the impact of a data point within its neighborhood. Overall density of the data space can be calculated as the sum of the influence function of all data points. Clusters can be determined mathematically by identifying density attractors; object that are associated with the same density attractor belong to the same cluster Density attractors are local maximal of the overall density function. Uses grid-cells to speed up computations; only data points in neighboring grid-cells are used to determine the density for a point. Denclue: Technical Essence

Han/Eick: Clustering II 14 DENCLUE Influence Function and its Gradient Example

Han/Eick: Clustering II 15 Example: Density Computation D={x1,x2,x3,x4} f D Gaussian (x)= influence(x1) + influence(x2) + influence(x3) + influence(x4)= =0.78 x1 x2 x3 x4 x y Remark: the density value of y would be larger than the one for x

Han/Eick: Clustering II 16 Density Attractor

Han/Eick: Clustering II 17 Examples of DENCLUE Clusters

Han/Eick: Clustering II 18 Basic Steps DENCLUE Algorithms 1. Determine density attractors 2. Associate data objects with density attractors using hill climbing (  initial clustering) 3. Merge the initial clusters further relying on a hierarchical clustering approach (optional)

Han/Eick: Clustering II 19 Chapter 8. Cluster Analysis What is Cluster Analysis? Types of Data in Cluster Analysis A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods Partitioning Methods Hierarchical Methods Density-Based Methods Grid-Based Methods Model-Based Clustering Methods Outlier Analysis Summary

Han/Eick: Clustering II 20 Steps of Grid-based Clustering Algorithms Basic Grid-based Algorithm 1. Define a set of grid-cells 2. Assign objects to the appropriate grid cell and compute the density of each cell. 3. Eliminate cells, whose density is below a certain threshold . 4. Form clusters from contiguous (adjacent) groups of dense cells (usually minimizing a given objective function).

Han/Eick: Clustering II 21 Advantages of Grid-based Clustering Algorithms fast: No distance computations Clustering is performed on summaries and not individual objects; complexity is usually O(#- populated-grid-cells) and not O(#objects) Easy to determine which clusters are neighboring Shapes are limited to union of rectangular grid- cells

Han/Eick: Clustering II 22 Grid-Based Clustering Methods Several interesting methods (in addition to the basic grid- based algorithm) STING (a STatistical INformation Grid approach) by Wang, Yang and Muntz (1997) CLIQUE: Agrawal, et al. (SIGMOD ’ 98)

Han/Eick: Clustering II 23 STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach Wang, Yang and Muntz (VLDB’97) The spatial area area is divided into rectangular cells There are several levels of cells corresponding to different levels of resolution

Han/Eick: Clustering II 24 STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach (2) Main contribution of STING is the proposal of a data structure that can be used for many purposes (e.g. SCMRG, BIRCH kind of uses it) The data structure is used to form clusters based on queries Each cell at a high level is partitioned into a number of smaller cells in the next lower level Statistical info of each cell is calculated and stored beforehand and is used to answer queries Parameters of higher level cells can be easily calculated from parameters of lower level cell count, mean, s, min, max type of distribution—normal, uniform, etc. Use a top-down approach to answer spatial data queries Clusters are formed by merging cells that match a given query description (  next slide)

Han/Eick: Clustering II 25 STING: Query Processing(3) Used a top-down approach to answer spatial data queries 1. Start from a pre-selected layer—typically with a small number of cells 2. From the pre-selected layer until you reach the bottom layer do the following: For each cell in the current level compute the confidence interval indicating a cell’s relevance to a given query; If it is relevant, include the cell in a cluster If it irrelevant, remove cell from further consideration otherwise, look for relevant cells at the next lower layer 3. Combine relevant cells into relevant regions (based on grid- neighborhood) and return the so obtained clusters as your answers.

Han/Eick: Clustering II 26 STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach (3) Advantages: Query-independent, easy to parallelize, incremental update O(K), where K is the number of grid cells at the lowest level Can be used in conjunction with a grid-based clustering algorithm Disadvantages: All the cluster boundaries are either horizontal or vertical, and no diagonal boundary is detected

Han/Eick: Clustering II 27 Subspace Clustering Clustering in very high-dimensional spaces is very difficult High dimensional attribute spaces tend to be sparse  it is hard to find any clusters It is very difficult to create summaries from clusters in very difficult This creates the motivation for subspace clustering: Find interesting subspaces (areas that are dense with respect to the attributes belonging to the subspace) Find clusters for each interesting Remark: multiple, overlapping clusters might be obtained; basically one clustering for each subspace.

Han/Eick: Clustering II 28 CLIQUE (Clustering In QUEst) Agrawal, Gehrke, Gunopulos, Raghavan (SIGMOD’98). Automatically identifying subspaces of a high dimensional data space that allow better clustering than original space CLIQUE can be considered as both density-based and grid- based It partitions each dimension into the same number of equal length interval It partitions an m-dimensional data space into non- overlapping rectangular units A unit is dense if the fraction of total data points contained in the unit exceeds the input model parameter A cluster is a maximal set of connected dense units within a subspace

Han/Eick: Clustering II 29 CLIQUE: The Major Steps Partition the data space and find the number of points that lie inside each cell of the partition. Identify the subspaces that contain clusters using the Apriori principle Identify clusters: Determine dense units in all subspaces of interests Determine connected dense units in all subspaces of interests.

Han/Eick: Clustering II 30 Salary (10,000) age age Vacation (week) age Vacation Salary 3050  = 3

Han/Eick: Clustering II 31 Strength and Weakness of CLIQUE Strength It automatically finds subspaces of the highest dimensionality such that high density clusters exist in those subspaces It is insensitive to the order of records in input and does not presume some canonical data distribution It scales linearly with the size of input and has good scalability as the number of dimensions in the data increases Weakness The accuracy of the clustering result may be degraded at the expense of simplicity of the method Quite expensive

Han/Eick: Clustering II 32 Self-organizing feature maps (SOMs) Clustering is also performed by having several units competing for the current object The unit whose weight vector is closest to the current object wins The winner and its neighbors learn by having their weights adjusted SOMs are believed to resemble processing that can occur in the brain Useful for visualizing high-dimensional data in 2- or 3-D space

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