A robust approach for multivariate binary vectors clustering and feature selection

  • Authors:
  • Mohamed Al Mashrgy;Nizar Bouguila;Khalid Daoudi

  • Affiliations:
  • Concordia University, QC, Cannada;Concordia University, QC, Cannada;INRIA Bordeaux Sud Ouest, France

  • Venue:
  • ICONIP'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Neural Information Processing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Given a set of binary vectors drawn from a finite multiple Bernoulli mixture model, an important problem is to determine which vectors are outliers and which features are relevant. The goal of this paper is to propose a model for binary vectors clustering that accommodates outliers and allows simultaneously the incorporation of a feature selection methodology into the clustering process. We derive an EM algorithm to fit the proposed model. Through simulation studies and a set of experiments involving handwritten digit recognition and visual scenes categorization, we demonstrate the usefulness and effectiveness of our method.