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Chiwan Park edited comment on FLINK-1731 at 5/13/15 2:29 AM: ------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, [~peedeeX21]. I think you can pass the initial centroids like {{fit(centroids: DataSet\[Vector\], fitParameters: ParameterMap}}. The fit method means that Learner creates a model and fits it into the given input. (in this case, centroids) And the created model (named like {{KMeansModel}}) decides the cluster of other points. From this approach, the initial centroids passed as a DataSet will be better. You can see this approach in CoCoA implementation. (https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-staging/flink-ml/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/ml/classification/CoCoA.scala) I hope that this comment helps you. was (Author: chiwanpark): Hello, [~peedeeX21]. I think you can pass the initial centroids like {{fit(centroids: DataSet\[Vector\], fitParameters: ParameterMap}}. The fit method means that Learner creates a model and fits it into the given input. (in this case, centroids) And the created model (named like {{KMeansModel}}) decides the cluster of other points. From this approach, the initial centroids passed as a DataSet will be better. You can see this approach in CoCoA implementation. (https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-staging/flink-ml/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/ml/classification/CoCoA.scala) I hope that this comments help you. > Add kMeans clustering algorithm to machine learning library > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-1731 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1731 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Machine Learning Library > Reporter: Till Rohrmann > Assignee: Alexander Alexandrov > Labels: ML > > The Flink repository already contains a kMeans implementation but it is not > yet ported to the machine learning library. I assume that only the used data > types have to be adapted and then it can be more or less directly moved to > flink-ml. > The kMeans++ [1] and the kMeans|| [2] algorithm constitute a better > implementation because the improve the initial seeding phase to achieve near > optimal clustering. It might be worthwhile to implement kMeans||. > Resources: > [1] http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/778/1/2006-13.pdf > [2] http://theory.stanford.edu/~sergei/papers/vldb12-kmpar.pdf -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)