Compară metode

	Clustering prin Propagare de Afinitate	Clustering Ierarhic
Domeniu	Învățare automată	Învățare automată
Familie	Machine learning	Machine learning
Anul apariției	2007	1963
Autorul original	Brendan Frey & Delbert Dueck	Ward, J. H.
Tip	Exemplar-based clustering via message passing	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
Sursa seminală	Frey, B. J., & Dueck, D. (2007). Clustering by passing messages between data points. Science, 315(5814), 972–976.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.
Denumiri alternative	affinity propagation clustering, message-passing clustering, exemplar-based clustering, yakınlık yayılımı kümeleme	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering
Înrudite	4	4
Rezumat	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.	Hierarchical clustering is an unsupervised method that groups observations into nested clusters and draws the result as a dendrogram, so the number of clusters need not be fixed in advance. Its agglomerative form rests on the objective-function grouping criterion introduced by Joe Ward in 1963.