Improvements to the quantum evolutionary clustering
by Chafika Ramdane; Mohamed-Khireddine Kholladi
International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies (IJDATS), Vol. 5, No. 2, 2013

Abstract: In previous work, a novel approach to data clustering based on quantum evolutionary algorithm has been proposed. In a comparison to other evolutionary clustering algorithms, the approach showed a high performance in terms of effectiveness and quality of found clusters. Although the approach is sound, it tends to be trapped in local minima, which slows the convergence. The approach is based on degrees of belonging having a fixed relationship with the distance between the data points and the clusters. The fixed relationship ignores completely the dataset distribution. In this paper, we modify the approach to improve its convergence. We also modify the function calculating the degrees of belonging by taking inspiration from possibilistic clustering. Comparison has been done with approaches based on degrees of belonging like fuzzy, possibilistic, hybrid fuzzy possibilistic clustering and other quantum evolutionary algorithm. Results on both real and synthetic datasets show that the modifications brought to the approach enable a more efficient exploration of the search space which improves the convergence speed and quality.

Online publication date: Fri, 28-Feb-2014

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