R: Kernel k-means

kkmeans {kernlab} | R Documentation

## Kernel k-means

### Description

A weighted kernel version of the famous k-means algorithm.

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'formula'
    kkmeans(x, data = NULL, na.action = na.omit, ...)

    ## S4 method for signature 'matrix'
    kkmeans(x, centers, kernel = "rbfdot", kpar = "automatic",
            alg="kkmeans", p=1, na.action = na.omit, ...)

    ## S4 method for signature 'kernelMatrix'
    kkmeans(x, centers, ...)

    ## S4 method for signature 'list'
    kkmeans(x, centers, kernel = "stringdot",
            kpar = list(length=4, lambda=0.5),
            alg ="kkmeans", p = 1, na.action = na.omit, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | the matrix of data to be clustered, or a symbolic description of the model to be fit, or a kernel Matrix of class `kernelMatrix`, or a list of character vectors.
`data` | an optional data frame containing the variables in the model. By default the variables are taken from the environment which ‘kkmeans’ is called from.
`centers` | Either the number of clusters or a matrix of initial cluster centers. If the first a random initial partitioning is used.
`kernel` | the kernel function used in training and predicting. This parameter can be set to any function, of class kernel, which computes a inner product in feature space between two vector arguments (see `link{kernels}`). kernlab provides the most popular kernel functions which can be used by setting the kernel parameter to the following strings: `rbfdot` Radial Basis kernel "Gaussian" `polydot` Polynomial kernel `vanilladot` Linear kernel `tanhdot` Hyperbolic tangent kernel `laplacedot` Laplacian kernel `besseldot` Bessel kernel `anovadot` ANOVA RBF kernel `splinedot` Spline kernel `stringdot` String kernel Setting the kernel parameter to "matrix" treats `x` as a kernel matrix calling the `kernelMatrix` interface. The kernel parameter can also be set to a user defined function of class kernel by passing the function name as an argument.
`kpar` | a character string or the list of hyper-parameters (kernel parameters). The default character string `"automatic"` uses a heuristic the determine a suitable value for the width parameter of the RBF kernel. A list can also be used containing the parameters to be used with the kernel function. Valid parameters for existing kernels are : `sigma` inverse kernel width for the Radial Basis kernel function "rbfdot" and the Laplacian kernel "laplacedot". `degree, scale, offset` for the Polynomial kernel "polydot" `scale, offset` for the Hyperbolic tangent kernel function "tanhdot" `sigma, order, degree` for the Bessel kernel "besseldot". `sigma, degree` for the ANOVA kernel "anovadot". `length, lambda, normalized` for the "stringdot" kernel where length is the length of the strings considered, lambda the decay factor and normalized a logical parameter determining if the kernel evaluations should be normalized. Hyper-parameters for user defined kernels can be passed through the kpar parameter as well.
`alg` | the algorithm to use. Options currently include `kkmeans` and `kerninghan`.
`p` | a parameter used to keep the affinity matrix positive semidefinite
`na.action` | The action to perform on NA
`...` | additional parameters

### Details

`kernel k-means` uses the 'kernel trick' (i.e. implicitly projecting all data into a non-linear feature space with the use of a kernel) in order to deal with one of the major drawbacks of `k-means` that is that it cannot capture clusters that are not linearly separable in input space.
The algorithm is implemented using the triangle inequality to avoid unnecessary and computational expensive distance calculations. This leads to significant speedup particularly on large data sets with a high number of clusters.
With a particular choice of weights this algorithm becomes equivalent to Kernighan-Lin, and the norm-cut graph partitioning algorithms.
The function also support input in the form of a kernel matrix or a list of characters for text clustering.
The data can be passed to the `kkmeans` function in a `matrix` or a `data.frame`, in addition `kkmeans` also supports input in the form of a kernel matrix of class `kernelMatrix` or as a list of character vectors where a string kernel has to be used.

### Value

An S4 object of class `specc` which extends the class `vector` containing integers indicating the cluster to which each point is allocated. The following slots contain useful information

`centers` | A matrix of cluster centers.
`size` | The number of point in each cluster
`withinss` | The within-cluster sum of squares for each cluster
`kernelf` | The kernel function used

### Author(s)

Alexandros Karatzoglou
alexandros.karatzoglou@ci.tuwien.ac.at

### References

Inderjit Dhillon, Yuqiang Guan, Brian Kulis
A Unified view of Kernel k-means, Spectral Clustering and Graph Partitioning
UTCS Technical Report
http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~kulis/pubs/spectral_techreport.pdf

### See Also

`specc`, `kpca`, `kcca`

### Examples

    ## Cluster the iris data set.
    data(iris)

    sc <- kkmeans(as.matrix(iris[,-5]), centers=3)

    sc
    centers(sc)
    size(sc)
    withinss(sc)

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