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A New Way for Hierarchical and Topological Clustering

  • Hanane AzzagEmail author
  • Mustapha Lebbah
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Abstract

Clustering is one of the most important unsupervised learning problems. It deals with finding a structure in a collection of unlabeled data points. Hierarchical clustering algorithms are typically more effective in detecting the true clustering structure of a structured data set than partitioning algorithms. We find in literature several important research in hierarchical cluster analysis [Jain et al., 1999]. Hierarchical methods can be further divided to agglomerative and divisive algorithms, corresponding to bottom-up and top-down strategies, to build a hierarchical clustering tree. Another works concerning hierarchical classifiers are presented in [Jiang et al., 2010]. In this paper we propose a new way to build a set of self-organized hierarchical trees.

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Cost Function Child Node Rand Index Hierarchical Cluster Algorithm Topological Cluster 
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  1. 1.Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN), CNRS(UMR 7030)Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris CitéVilletaneuseFrance

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