Adaptive Resonance Theory-based Topological Clustering with a Divisive Hierarchical Structure Capable of Continual Learning

01/26/2022
by   Naoki Masuyama, et al.
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Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) is considered as an effective approach for realizing continual learning thanks to its ability to handle the plasticity-stability dilemma. In general, however, the clustering performance of ART-based algorithms strongly depends on the specification of a similarity threshold, i.e., a vigilance parameter, which is data-dependent and specified by hand. This paper proposes an ART-based topological clustering algorithm with a mechanism that automatically estimates a similarity threshold from the distribution of data points. In addition, for improving information extraction performance, a divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm capable of continual learning is proposed by introducing a hierarchical structure to the proposed algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has high clustering performance comparable with recently-proposed state-of-the-art hierarchical clustering algorithms.

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