Two-Step Hybrid PSO-Based Clustering Algorithm

In order to solve the problems of the existing PSO (particle swarm optimization) K-means algorithms, i.e., their calculation speeds are slow and the clustering results are unstable when samples have a high dimension, some high-quality sub-clusters were generated by hierarchical agglomerative clustering. These sub-clusters were used as the search space of candidate centroids of the PSO K-means. In order to reduce the computational complexity when the dimension of a sample is high, a simplified particle encoding method was proposed. In addition, chaotic idea was introduced to keep the diversity of particle swarm to avoid premature. By two-step hybrid clustering the advantages of the hierarchical clustering, the partitioning clustering and the PSO were combined. The experimental results on several UCI data sets show that compared with the best results of several contrastive algorithms, the purity of its clustering result increases by 1% to 8% and the consuming time reduces by 50% at least.