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Hierarchical clustering with optimal transport

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  • Chakraborty, Saptarshi
  • Paul, Debolina
  • Das, Swagatam

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Optimal Transport (OT) distances result in a powerful technique to compare the probability distributions. Defining a similarity measure between clusters has been an open problem in Statistics. This paper introduces a hierarchical clustering algorithm using the OT based distance measures and analyzes the performance of the proposed algorithm on standard datasets with respect to the existing and popular hierarchical clustering methods.

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  • Chakraborty, Saptarshi & Paul, Debolina & Das, Swagatam, 2020. "Hierarchical clustering with optimal transport," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:163:y:2020:i:c:s0167715220300845
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2020.108781
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