PowerIterationClustering¶

class pyspark.mllib.clustering.PowerIterationClustering[source]

Power Iteration Clustering (PIC), a scalable graph clustering algorithm.

Developed by Lin and Cohen [1]. From the abstract:

“PIC finds a very low-dimensional embedding of a dataset using truncated power iteration on a normalized pair-wise similarity matrix of the data.”

New in version 1.5.0.

1

Lin, Frank & Cohen, William. (2010). Power Iteration Clustering. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~frank/papers/icml2010-pic-final.pdf

Methods

 train(rdd, k[, maxIterations, initMode]) Train PowerIterationClusteringModel

Methods Documentation

classmethod train(rdd, k, maxIterations=100, initMode='random')[source]

Train PowerIterationClusteringModel

New in version 1.5.0.

Parameters
rddpyspark.RDD

An RDD of (i, j, sij) tuples representing the affinity matrix, which is the matrix A in the PIC paper. The similarity sijmust be nonnegative. This is a symmetric matrix and hence sij= sji For any (i, j) with nonzero similarity, there should be either (i, j, sij) or (j, i, sji) in the input. Tuples with i = j are ignored, because it is assumed sij= 0.0.

kint

Number of clusters.

maxIterationsint, optional

Maximum number of iterations of the PIC algorithm. (default: 100)

initModestr, optional

Initialization mode. This can be either “random” to use a random vector as vertex properties, or “degree” to use normalized sum similarities. (default: “random”)