A coevolving memetic algorithm for simultaneous partitional clustering and feature weighting

Yiwen Sun, Zexuan Zhu*, Shan He, Zhen Ji

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Abstract

This paper proposes a coevolving Memetic clustering algorithm namely CoMCA for simultaneous partitional clustering and feature weighting. Particularly, CoMCA uses a coevolving particle swarm optimization (PSO) with two swarms for the global search of optimal combination of cluster centroids and feature weights. In each iteration of PSO, a local search based on K-means and gradient descent is introduced to fine-tune the best solution. Comparison study of CoMCA to K-means, PSO clustering, Fuzzy C-means, and WK-Means on test data demonstrates that CoMCA is robust in highlighting relevant features and attaining better (or competitive) performance than the other counterpart algorithms in terms of inter-cluster variance and Rand Index.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2013 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Computing, MC 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages9-15
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9781467358910
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event2013 2nd IEEE Workshop on Memetic Computing, MC 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 16 Apr 201319 Apr 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2013 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Computing, MC 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013

Conference

Conference2013 2nd IEEE Workshop on Memetic Computing, MC 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period16/04/1319/04/13

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Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications

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