Ichino, M.; Umbleja, K.; Yaguchi, H. Unsupervised Feature Selection for Histogram-Valued Symbolic Data Using Hierarchical Conceptual Clustering. Stats2021, 4, 359-384.
Ichino, M.; Umbleja, K.; Yaguchi, H. Unsupervised Feature Selection for Histogram-Valued Symbolic Data Using Hierarchical Conceptual Clustering. Stats 2021, 4, 359-384.
Ichino, M.; Umbleja, K.; Yaguchi, H. Unsupervised Feature Selection for Histogram-Valued Symbolic Data Using Hierarchical Conceptual Clustering. Stats2021, 4, 359-384.
Ichino, M.; Umbleja, K.; Yaguchi, H. Unsupervised Feature Selection for Histogram-Valued Symbolic Data Using Hierarchical Conceptual Clustering. Stats 2021, 4, 359-384.
Abstract
This paper presents an unsupervised feature selection method for multi-dimensional histogram-valued data. We define a multi-role measure, called the compactness, based on the concept size of given objects and/or clusters described by a fixed number of equal probability bin-rectangles. In each step of clustering, we agglomerate objects and/or clusters so as to minimize the compactness for the generated cluster. This means that the compactness plays the role of a similarity measure between objects and/or clusters to be merged. To minimize the compactness is equivalent to maximize the dis-similarity of the generated cluster, i.e., concept, against the whole concept in each step. In this sense, the compactness plays the role of cluster quality. We also show that the average compactness of each feature with respect to objects and/or clusters in several clustering steps is useful as feature effectiveness criterion. Features having small average compactness are mutually covariate, and are able to detect geometrically thin structure embedded in the given multi-dimensional histogram-valued data. We obtain thorough understandings of the given data by the visualization using dendrograms and scatter diagrams with respect to the selected informative features. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by using an artificial data set and real histogram-valued data sets.
Computer Science and Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory
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