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Re:Introduction to K-Means Clustering by jdeaton on Monday March 14, 2022 @02:03PM (#30675753)
After having implemented k-means ~5 times in undergraduate classes, it was interesting to learn that k-means is just a special case of expectation maximization.
Re:Introduction to K-Means Clustering by petters on Monday March 14, 2022 @03:38PM (#30677163)
...which in turn is just a special case of block coordinate descent. One set of variables is fixed, while another set is optimized and vice versa.