Authors: Carlotta Domeniconi, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Sheng Ma

Title: Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data

Conference: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)

Year: 2004

Abstract: Clustering suffers from the curse of dimensionality, and similarity functions that use all input features with equal relevance may not be effective. We introduce an algorithm that discovers clusters in subspaces spanned by di erent combinations of dimensions via local weightings of features. This approach avoids the risk of loss of information encountered in global dimensionality reduction techniques, and does not assume any data distribution model. Our method associates to each cluster a weight vector, whose values capture the relevance of features within the corresponding cluster. We experimentally demonstrate the gain in perfomance our method achieves, using both synthetic and real data sets. In particular, our results show the feasibility of the proposed technique to perform simultaneous clustering of genes and conditions in microarray data.

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