February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
386 pages
9h 54m
English
All of the algorithms that were analyzed in Chapter 4, Hierarchical Clustering in Action, belong to the family of hard clustering methods. This means that a given sample is always assigned to a single cluster. On the other hand, soft clustering is aimed at associating each sample, xi with a vector, generally representing the probability that xi belongs to every cluster:

Alternatively, the output can be interpreted as a membership vector:

Formally, there are no differences between the two versions, but normally, the latter is ...
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