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Suite of Fast Incremental Algorithms for Machine Learning. Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/sofia-ml
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k-means question #13

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
For the k-means training, does label (in my case, face label) have an influence 
on the clustering?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jrwook...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2013 at 1:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
I'm not sure how sofia-ml implements k-means, but unless they mention otherwise 
it's safe to assume that k-means does not use your labels.  It is an 
unsupervised learning algorithm that just tries to find groups of points close 
to each other in the feature space.

Original comment by ida.noeman on 12 Sep 2013 at 2:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
Correct.  Any provided labels are ignored during k-means training.

Original comment by dscul...@google.com on 27 Dec 2013 at 8:00