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Affinity Propagation

Affinity propagation, introduced by Brendan Frey and Delbert Dueck in 2007, is a clustering algorithm that identifies representative 'exemplars' among the data by exchanging messages between every pair of points until a consistent set of clusters emerges. Unlike k-means it does not require the number of clusters to be specified in advance — that number arises from the data and a 'preference' parameter — and it works directly from pairwise similarities, which need not be a metric.

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Affinity Propagation Clustering

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Frey, B. J., & Dueck, D. (2007). Clustering by passing messages between data points. Science, 315(5814), 972–976. · DOI 10.1126/science.1136800

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