Clustering Performance Metric

A Clustering Performance Metric is a Performance Metric for a Clustering Task.

• AKA: Clustering Performance.
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• Example(s):
  • explainability
  • subjectivity
  • Cluster Purity Metric.
  • F-Score Metric.
  • Normalized Mutual Information Metric.
• See: Classification Performance Metric.

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References

2009

• (Hu et al., 1999) ⇒ Xiaohua Hu, Xiaodan Zhang, Caimei Lu, E. K. Park, and Xiaohua Zhou. (2009). “Exploiting Wikipedia as External Knowledge for Document Clustering.” In: Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference (KDD-2009). doi:10.1145/1557019.1557066
  • … Cluster quality is evaluated by three metrics, purity [14], F-score [10], and normalized mutual information (NMI) [15].

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