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	Ομαδοποίηση K-means	Τυχαίο Δάσος
Πεδίο	Μηχανική Μάθηση	Μηχανική Μάθηση
Οικογένεια	Machine learning	Machine learning
Έτος προέλευσης	1967 (formalized 1982)	2001
Δημιουργός	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Breiman, L.
Τύπος	Partitional clustering	Ensemble (bagging of decision trees)
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Breiman, L. (2001). Random Forests. Machine Learning, 45, 5–32.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Rastgele Orman (Random Forest), rastgele orman, random decision forest, bagged tree ensemble
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	K-means is a classic unsupervised partitional clustering algorithm that divides a dataset into K non-overlapping groups by iteratively assigning each observation to its nearest centroid and updating centroids as the mean of their assigned points. It is one of the most widely used exploratory tools in machine learning and data analysis.	Random Forest is an ensemble learning method, introduced by Leo Breiman in 2001, that grows many decision trees on bootstrap samples of the data and combines their votes to produce strong classification and regression. By pooling many slightly different trees, it produces more accurate and more stable predictions than any single tree.