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Github user thvasilo commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/757#issuecomment-121713405
Hello Sachin,
I'm currently on vacation until August so someone else needs to so the
reviews until then.
Regards,
Theodore
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On Jul 15, 2015 3:50 PM, "Sachin Goel" <[email protected]> wrote:
> @thvasilo <https://github.com/thvasilo> I've incorporated different
> initialization strategies in the KMeans algorithm itself. Please review.
>
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> <https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/757#issuecomment-121605233>.
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> Add Initialization schemes for K-means clustering
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> Key: FLINK-2131
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2131
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Machine Learning Library
> Reporter: Sachin Goel
> Assignee: Sachin Goel
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> The Lloyd's [KMeans] algorithm takes initial centroids as its input. However,
> in case the user doesn't provide the initial centers, they may ask for a
> particular initialization scheme to be followed. The most commonly used are
> these:
> 1. Random initialization: Self-explanatory
> 2. kmeans++ initialization: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/778/1/2006-13.pdf
> 3. kmeans|| : http://theory.stanford.edu/~sergei/papers/vldb12-kmpar.pdf
> For very large data sets, or for large values of k, the kmeans|| method is
> preferred as it provides the same approximation guarantees as kmeans++ and
> requires lesser number of passes over the input data.
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