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K-means

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.

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K-means Clustering Algorithm
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / machine-learning
  • Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137. · DOI 10.1109/TIT.1982.1056489
  • MacQueen, J. B. (1967). Some methods for classification and analysis of multivariate observations. Proceedings of the 5th Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1, 281–297. · URL
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