Gates and Ahn, "The impact of random models on clustering similarity" (2017)
2026-08-14
Alexander J. Gates and Yong-Yeol Ahn, Journal of Machine Learning Research 18, 1–28 (2017)
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@article{gates2017random,
author = {Alexander J. Gates and Yong-Yeol Ahn},
title = {The Impact of Random Models on Clustering Similarity},
journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
volume = {18},
pages = {1--28},
eprint = {1701.06508},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
year = {2017},
}
Different random-clustering ensembles can substantially change corrected similarity scores and even the ranking of clustering pairs, affecting Clustering comparison measures such as the Rand index and Normalized mutual information.