เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Affinity Propagation Clustering	DBSCAN
สาขาวิชา	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง
ตระกูล	Machine learning	Machine learning
ปีกำเนิด	2007	1996
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Brendan Frey & Delbert Dueck	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.
ประเภท	Exemplar-based clustering via message passing	Density-based clustering algorithm
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Frey, B. J., & Dueck, D. (2007). Clustering by passing messages between data points. Science, 315(5814), 972–976.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X. (1996). A Density-Based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise. Proceedings of the 2nd KDD, 226–231.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	affinity propagation clustering, message-passing clustering, exemplar-based clustering, yakınlık yayılımı kümeleme	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	3
สรุป	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.	DBSCAN is a density-based clustering algorithm, introduced by Ester, Kriegel, Sander and Xu in 1996, that groups together points lying in dense regions and flags points in sparse regions as noise. It is effective on noisy data and on clusters of irregular, non-spherical shapes.