Hierarchical Density-Based Clustering Using Incremental Similarity Search
摘要
This article proposes two enhancements of the hierarchical agglomerative clustering with incremental similarity search presented at SISAP 2024. First, we extend the approach to support HDBSCAN*, a density-based clustering algorithm that is related to single-linkage clustering, but offers increased robustness to noise due to its minimum density requirements. Second, we replace the previous Kruskal-based approach with a variant of Borůvka’s minimum spanning tree algorithm, which avoid certain cases where the previous approach would deliver poor runtime performance. Similar to the previous approach, this leverages incremental nearest-neighbor search to accelerate the clustering process if the data is amenable to indexing.