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On ill-conceived initialization in archetypal analysis

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  • Abdul Suleman

    (ISCTE-IUL Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL))

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We show that an improper initialization of the matrix of prototypes, $${\mathbf {V}}$$ V , can be misleading, and potentially gives rise to a degenerate fuzzy partition when performing fuzzy clustering by means of an archetypal analysis. Subsequently, we propose an algorithm to correct the initial guess for $${\mathbf {V}}$$ V , which is grounded in two theoretical results on convex hulls. A numerical experiment carried out to assess its accuracy, and involving more than 200,000 initializations, shows a failure rate of below 0.8%.

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  • Abdul Suleman, 2017. "On ill-conceived initialization in archetypal analysis," Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, Springer;German Classification Society - Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl);Japanese Classification Society (JCS);Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society (CLADAG);International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), vol. 11(4), pages 785-808, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:advdac:v:11:y:2017:i:4:d:10.1007_s11634-017-0303-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s11634-017-0303-0
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    1. Flavia Esposito, 2021. "A Review on Initialization Methods for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization: Towards Omics Data Experiments," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(9), pages 1-17, April.

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