Fast and Accurate k-means For Large Datasets

author: Michael Shindler, Oregon State University
published: Jan. 25, 2012,   recorded: December 2011,   views: 8430
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Clustering is a popular problem with many applications. We consider the $k$-means problem in the situation where the data is too large to be stored in main memory and must be accessed sequentially, such as from a disk, and where we must use as little memory as possible. Our algorithm is based on recent theoretical results, with significant improvements to make it practical. Our approach greatly simplifies a recently developed algorithm, both in design and in analysis, and eliminates large constant factors in the approximation guarantee, the memory requirements, and the running time. We then incorporate approximate nearest neighbor search to compute $k$-means in $o(nk)$ (where $n$ is the number of data points; note that computing the cost, given a solution, takes $\Theta(nk)$ time). We show that our algorithm compares favorably to existing algorithms - both theoretically and experimentally, thus providing state-of-the-art performance in both theory and practice.

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Comment1 Marko, September 2, 2014 at 11:34 a.m.:

Can Streaming k-means be used for on-line clustering, such as that the first step is done in the same manner for each point that gets into the system, and then the ball k-means is performed on the new centroid set?


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