Apprentissage non-supervisé relationnel dans l'espace des coordonnées barycentriques
Abstract
Data clustering is a very important and challenging task in Artificial Intelligence (AI) field
with many applications such as bio-informatics, medical, enhancing recommendation engines
or fraud detection. Among the different families of clustering algorithms, one of the most
widely used is the prototypebased clustering, because of its simplicity and reasonable computational
time. In this study, we propose a prototype-based clustering algorithm for relational
data based on the barycentric coordinates formalism. We compared experimentally the quality
of the proposed approach on artificial and real data-sets. The experiments show the high
quality of the algorithm in terms of clustering results. We also showed that our approach is a
significant improvement in terms of computational and memory complexity compared to the
state-of-the-art approaches. We consider that these results are encouraging and pave the road
to numerous applications in data clustering.