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Register a new userA novel initialisation based on hospital-resident assignment for the k-modes algorithm
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Henry Wilde
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2020
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Informatics Engineering
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This paper presents a new way of selecting an initial solution for the k-modes algorithm that allows for a notion of mathematical fairness and a leverage of the data that the common initialisations from literature do not. The method, which utilises the Hospital-Resident Assignment Problem to find the set of initial cluster centroids, is compared with the current initialisations on both benchmark datasets and a body of newly generated artificial datasets. Based on this analysis, the proposed method is shown to outperform the other initialisations in the majority of cases, especially when the number of clusters is optimised. In addition, we find that our method outperforms the leading established method specifically for low-density data.
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