2011/10/4 Conrad Lee <[email protected]>:
> I just noticed this recent paper on arXiv about faster hierarchical
> clustering.  The author has come up with algorithms to reduce the asymptotic
> complexity of many variants from O(N^3) to O(N^2).  Even better, he has come
> up with a C++ implementation with a python/numpy interface that is drop-in
> compatible with scipy.cluster.hierarchy.

You must mean from Θ(n² lg n) to Θ(n²). A generic Θ(n² lg n) algo is
listed in many textbooks [1], I sure hope we don't have the naive algo
scikit-learn?


[1] http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/pdf/17hier.pdf


-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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