Affinity Propagation Clustering Algorithm Based on PCA
Bei Chen, Kun Song · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2014
Overlap information usually exits in the high-dimensional data. Misclassified points may be more when affinity propagation clustering is applied to these data. Concerning this problem, a new method combining principal components analysis and affinity propagation clustering is proposed. In this method, dimensionality of the original data is reduced on the premise of reserving most information of the variables. Then, affinity propagation clustering is implemented in the low-dimensional space. Thus, because the redundant information is deleted, the classification is accurate. Experiment is done by using this new method, the results of the experiment explain that this method is effective.