Parallel Total Variation Distance Estimation with Neural Networks for Merging Over-Clusterings

Autor:	Reiser, Christian, Schlötterer, Jörg, Granitzer, Michael
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Computer Science - Machine Learning Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Statistics - Machine Learning
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We consider the initial situation where a dataset has been over-partitioned into $k$ clusters and seek a domain independent way to merge those initial clusters. We identify the total variation distance (TVD) as suitable for this goal. By exploiting the relation of the TVD to the Bayes accuracy we show how neural networks can be used to estimate TVDs between all pairs of clusters in parallel. Crucially, the needed memory space is decreased by reducing the required number of output neurons from $k^2$ to $k$. On realistically obtained over-clusterings of ImageNet subsets it is demonstrated that our TVD estimates lead to better merge decisions than those obtained by relying on state-of-the-art unsupervised representations. Further the generality of the approach is verified by evaluating it on a a point cloud dataset.
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04022 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv