10-601 DR

This a lecture used in the Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601 in Fall 2014

Slides

Slides in PDF

Readings

Bishop's Chapter 9

Mitchell 6.12 also has a nice description of EM and k-means.

What You Should Know Afterward

• Linkage methods
• Bottom up vs. top down clustering
• Run time of different clustering methods
• Assumptions, advntages and disadvantages of each method
• (optional) Optimal leaf ordering
• (optional) Spectral clustering
• (optional) Self organizing maps