Swarm intelligence for self-organized clustering

DOI10.1016/J.ARTINT.2020.103237zbMATH Open1504.68191arXiv2106.05521OpenAlexW3003752967MaRDI QIDQ86925FDOQ86925

Authors: Alfred Ultsch, Michael C. Thrun, Alfred Ultsch, Michael Christoph Thrun 

Publication date: January 2021

Published in: Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Algorithms implementing populations of agents which interact with one another and sense their environment may exhibit emergent behavior such as self-organization and swarm intelligence. Here a swarm system, called Databionic swarm (DBS), is introduced which is able to adapt itself to structures of high-dimensional data characterized by distance and/or density-based structures in the data space. By exploiting the interrelations of swarm intelligence, self-organization and emergence, DBS serves as an alternative approach to the optimization of a global objective function in the task of clustering. The swarm omits the usage of a global objective function and is parameter-free because it searches for the Nash equilibrium during its annealing process. To our knowledge, DBS is the first swarm combining these approaches. Its clustering can outperform common clustering methods such as K-means, PAM, single linkage, spectral clustering, model-based clustering, and Ward, if no prior knowledge about the data is available. A central problem in clustering is the correct estimation of the number of clusters. This is addressed by a DBS visualization called topographic map which allows assessing the number of clusters. It is known that all clustering algorithms construct clusters, irrespective of the data set contains clusters or not. In contrast to most other clustering algorithms, the topographic map identifies, that clustering of the data is meaningless if the data contains no (natural) clusters. The performance of DBS is demonstrated on a set of benchmark data, which are constructed to pose difficult clustering problems and in two real-world applications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05521

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zbMATH Keywords

cluster analysisvisualizationemergencegame theorynonlinear dimensionality reductionself-organizationswarm intelligence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05)

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Uses Software

• mclust
• R
• CRAN
• RcppArmadillo
• ABCanalysis
• AdaptGauss
• clusfind
• clustervalidation
• Boids
• DatabionicSwarm

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