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Barbara Hammer1, Alexander Hasenfuss

  • 1University of Bielefeld, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany. bhammer@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

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Relational topographic maps extend clustering for dissimilarity data, enabling neighborhood structure analysis without explicit embedding. An efficient linear-time version addresses scalability for large datasets.

Area of Science:

  • Data Mining
  • Machine Learning
  • Computational Statistics

Background:

  • Topographic maps like Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) and Neural Gas (NG) are effective for clustering and topological data analysis.
  • These methods typically require vectorial data and classical feature encoding.
  • Many real-world datasets are available only as pairwise distances (e.g., from kernel matrices or graphs), rendering standard SOM and NG inapplicable.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce relational topographic maps, an extension of relational clustering algorithms.
  • To incorporate neighborhood structure into prototype-based representations of dissimilarity data.
  • To enable topographic mapping for datasets represented solely by pairwise dissimilarities.

Main Methods:

  • Developed relational topographic maps as an extension of relational clustering.

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  • Demonstrated equivalence to standard vectorial techniques when Euclidean embedding exists, avoiding explicit computation.
  • Extended methods for non-Euclidean dissimilarities, interpreting relational clustering in pseudo-Euclidean space.
  • Compared methods with deterministic annealing-based proximity clustering and analyzed convergence guarantees.
  • Proposed an approximate patch version for linear-time computation on large datasets.

    • Main Results:

    • Relational topographic maps effectively represent neighborhood structure in dissimilarity data.
    • The methods provide an interpretation of relational clustering in pseudo-Euclidean space for non-Euclidean dissimilarities.
    • An efficient linear-time approximate version was developed to overcome the quadratic complexity of standard relational clustering.
    • The effectiveness of the proposed methods was validated through various examples.

    Conclusions:

    • Relational topographic maps offer a powerful approach for clustering and topological analysis of dissimilarity data.
    • The developed methods are applicable to a broader range of data types, including non-Euclidean dissimilarities.
    • The linear-time approximation significantly enhances scalability for large-scale data mining applications.