A Unified Framework for Tuning Hyperparameters in Clustering Problems

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العنوان: A Unified Framework for Tuning Hyperparameters in Clustering Problems
المؤلفون: Fan, Xinjie, Yue, Yuguang, Sarkar, Purnamrita, Wang, Y. X. Rachel
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Computer Science
Mathematics
Statistics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Statistics - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Mathematics - Statistics Theory
الوصف: Selecting hyperparameters for unsupervised learning problems is challenging in general due to the lack of ground truth for validation. Despite the prevalence of this issue in statistics and machine learning, especially in clustering problems, there are not many methods for tuning these hyperparameters with theoretical guarantees. In this paper, we provide a framework with provable guarantees for selecting hyperparameters in a number of distinct models. We consider both the subgaussian mixture model and network models to serve as examples of i.i.d. and non-i.i.d. data. We demonstrate that the same framework can be used to choose the Lagrange multipliers of penalty terms in semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxations for community detection, and the bandwidth parameter for constructing kernel similarity matrices for spectral clustering. By incorporating a cross-validation procedure, we show the framework can also do consistent model selection for network models. Using a variety of simulated and real data examples, we show that our framework outperforms other widely used tuning procedures in a broad range of parameter settings.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08018
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1910.08018
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv