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Density peaks clustering algorithm based on improved similarity and allocation strategy

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Density peaks clustering (DPC) algorithm provides an efficient method to quickly find cluster centers with decision graph. In recent years, due to its unique parameter, no iteration, and good robustness, DPC has been widely studied and applied. However, it also has some shortcomings, such as unable to effectively identify cluster centers and the chain reaction caused by non-central points error allocation. Aiming at these two shortcomings of DPC, an improved density peaks clustering based on variance (DPCV) is proposed. First, the algorithm uses the variance between points to improve similarity and reduce the density difference of unevenly distributed data sets. Then, according to the similar density relationship between a cluster center and surrounding points, the low-density points are used as the dividing boundary of the initial allocation process. In order to optimize the time consumption of calculating the variance, this paper replaces the variance with the Manhattan distance between points and proposes density peaks clustering based on Manhattan distance (MDDPC). Theoretical analysis and experiments on artificial data and UCI data sets show that, compared with DPC and its improved algorithms, DPCV and MDDPC further improve the clustering accuracy of the DPC algorithm while controlling the running time.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (No.61976216, No.62276265).

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

    Shifei Ding, Wei Du, Chao Li, Xiao Xu & Lijuan Wang

  2. Mine Digitization Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Xuzhou, 221116, China

    Shifei Ding & Wei Du

  3. College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, China

    Ling Ding

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Ding, S., Du, W., Li, C. et al. Density peaks clustering algorithm based on improved similarity and allocation strategy. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 14, 1527–1542 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-022-01711-7

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