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Robin Anil commented on MAHOUT-153: ----------------------------------- Hi Rohini and Pallavi Thanks for updating the patches. Could you guys give a short description on what the input and output is? Seems this is all based on text and mahout is using document vectors as the input and a configurable distance measure. I just want to make sure this gets in quickly. So an input output description will be of great help > Implement kmeans++ for initial cluster selection in kmeans > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAHOUT-153 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-153 > Project: Mahout > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Clustering > Affects Versions: 0.2 > Environment: OS Independent > Reporter: Panagiotis Papadimitriou > Assignee: Ted Dunning > Fix For: 0.4 > > Attachments: Mahout-153.patch, MAHOUT-153_RandomFarthest.patch > > Original Estimate: 336h > Remaining Estimate: 336h > > The current implementation of k-means includes the following algorithms for > initial cluster selection (seed selection): 1) random selection of k points, > 2) use of canopy clusters. > I plan to implement k-means++. The details of the algorithm are available > here: http://www.stanford.edu/~darthur/kMeansPlusPlus.pdf. > Design Outline: I will create an abstract class SeedGenerator and a subclass > KMeansPlusPlusSeedGenerator. The existing class RandomSeedGenerator will > become a subclass of SeedGenerator. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.