FGKA: a Fast Genetic K-means Clustering Algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Yi Lu;Shiyong Lu;Farshad Fotouhi;Youping Deng;Susan J. Brown

  • Affiliations:
  • Wayne State University, Detroit, MI;Wayne State University, Detroit, MI;Wayne State University, Detroit, MI;Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS;Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new clustering algorithm called Fast Genetic K-means Algorithm (FGKA). FGKA is inspired by the Genetic K-means Algorithm (GKA) proposed by Krishna and Murty in 1999 but features several improvements over GKA. Our experiments indicate that, while K-means algorithm might converge to a local optimum, both FGKA and GKA always converge to the global optimum eventually but FGKA runs much faster than GKA.