Zhihong Ouyang*, Lei Xue, Feng Ding, Yongsheng Duan
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.1, pp. 983-1008, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042222
Abstract Affinity propagation (AP) is a widely used exemplar-based clustering approach with superior efficiency and clustering quality. Nevertheless, a common issue with AP clustering is the presence of excessive exemplars, which limits its ability to perform effective aggregation. This research aims to enable AP to automatically aggregate to produce fewer and more compact clusters, without changing the similarity matrix or customizing preference parameters, as done in existing enhanced approaches. An automatic aggregation enhanced affinity propagation (AAEAP) clustering algorithm is proposed, which combines a dependable partitioning clustering approach with AP to achieve this purpose. The partitioning clustering… More >