This package is a wrapper around the fast Rust k-medoids package, implementing the FasterPAM and FastPAM algorithms along with the baseline k-means-style and PAM algorithms. Furthermore, the (Medoid) Silhouette can be optimized by the FasterMSC, FastMSC, PAMMEDSIL and PAMSIL
algorithms. All algorithms expect a distance matrix and the number of clusters as input. They hence can be used with arbitrary dissimilarity functions. If you use this code in scientific work, please cite the papers in the References. Thank you. Pre-built packages are on PyPi //pypi.org/project/kmedoids/ and can be installed with pip
install kmedoids. You need to have Rust and Python 3 installed. Installation uses maturin, for compiling and installing Rust extensions. Maturin is best used within a Python virtual
environment. # activate your desired virtual environment first
pip install maturin
git clone //github.com/kno10/python-kmedoids.git
cd python-kmedoids
# build and install the package:
maturin develop --release
Integration test to validate the installation. python -m unittest discover tests
This procedure uses the latest git version from //github.com/kno10/rust-kmedoids. If you want to use local modifications to the Rust code, you need to provide the source folder of the Rust module in Cargo.toml by setting the path= option of the kmedoids dependency. import kmedoids
c = kmedoids.fasterpam(distmatrix, 5)
print("Loss is:", c.loss)
Note that KMedoids defaults to the “precomputed” metric, expecting a pairwise
distance matrix. If you have sklearn installed, you can use metric=”euclidean”. import kmedoids
km = kmedoids.KMedoids(5, method='fasterpam')
c = km.fit(distmatrix)
print("Loss is:", c.inertia_)
import kmedoids
import numpy
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml
from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import euclidean_distances
X, _ = fetch_openml('mnist_784', version=1, return_X_y=True, as_frame=False)
X = X[:10000]
diss = euclidean_distances(X)
start = time.time()
fp = kmedoids.fasterpam(diss, 100)
print("FasterPAM took: %.2f ms" % ((time.time() - start)*1000))
print("Loss with FasterPAM:", fp.loss)
start = time.time()
pam = kmedoids.pam(diss, 100)
print("PAM took: %.2f ms" % ((time.time() - start)*1000))
print("Loss with PAM:", pam.loss)
FasterPAM (Schubert and Rousseeuw, 2020, 2021) FastPAM1 (Schubert and Rousseeuw, 2019, 2021) PAM (Kaufman and Rousseeuw, 1987) with BUILD and SWAP Alternating (k-means-style approach) BUILD (Kaufman and Rousseeuw, 1987) Silhouette (Kaufman and Rousseeuw, 1987) FasterMSC (Lenssen and Schubert, 2022) FastMSC (Lenssen and Schubert, 2022) PAMSIL (Van der Laan and Pollard, 2003) PAMMEDSIL (Van der Laan and Pollard, 2003) Medoid Silhouette (Van der Laan and Pollard, 2003) Note that the k-means style “alternating” algorithm yields rather poor result quality (see Schubert and Rousseeuw 2021 for an
example and explanation). FasterPAM k-medoids clustering This is an accelerated version of PAM clustering, that eagerly performs any swap found, and contains the O(k) improvement to find the best swaps faster. References: Erich Schubert, Peter J.
Rousseeuw Fast and Eager k-Medoids Clustering: O(k) Runtime Improvement of the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS Algorithms Information Systems (101), 2021, 101804 Erich Schubert, Peter J. Rousseeuw: Faster k-Medoids Clustering: Improving the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS Algorithms In: 12th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2019), 171-187. diss (ndarray) –
square numpy array of dissimilarities medoids (int or ndarray) – number of clusters to find or existing medoids max_iter (int) – maximum number of iterations init (str, "random", "first" or "build") – initialization method random_state (int,
RandomState instance or None) – random seed (also used for shuffling the processing order) n_cpu (int) – number of threads to use (-1: automatic) k-medoids clustering result KMedoidsResult FastPAM1 k-medoids clustering This is an accelerated version of PAM clustering, that performs the same swaps as the original PAM (given
the same starting conditions), but finds the best swap O(k) times faster. References: Erich Schubert, Peter J. Rousseeuw Fast and Eager k-Medoids Clustering: O(k) Runtime Improvement of the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS Algorithms Information Systems (101), 2021, 101804 Erich Schubert, Peter J. Rousseeuw: Faster k-Medoids Clustering: Improving the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS Algorithms In: 12th International Conference on Similarity Search
and Applications (SISAP 2019), 171-187. diss (ndarray) – square numpy array of dissimilarities medoids (int or ndarray) – number of clusters to find or existing medoids max_iter (int) – maximum number of iterations init (str, "random", "first" or
"build") – initialization method random_state (int, RandomState instance or None) – random seed if no medoids are given k-medoids clustering result KMedoidsResult PAM k-medoids clustering This is an implementation of the original PAM (Partitioning Around Medoids) clustering algorithm. For improved
versions, see the fastpam and fasterpam methods. References: Leonard Kaufman, Peter J. Rousseeuw: Clustering by means of medoids. In: Dodge Y (ed) Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L 1 Norm and Related Methods, pp 405–416, 1987 Leonard Kaufman, Peter J. Rousseeuw: Finding Groups in Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis. diss (ndarray) – square numpy array of
dissimilarities medoids (int or ndarray) – number of clusters to find or existing medoids max_iter (int) – maximum number of iterations init (str, "random", "first" or "build") – initialization method random_state (int, RandomState instance
or None) – random seed if no medoids are given k-medoids clustering result KMedoidsResult Alternating k-medoids clustering (k-means-style algorithm) Note: this yields substantially worse results than PAM algorithms on
difficult data sets. diss (ndarray) – square numpy array of dissimilarities medoids (int or ndarray) – number of clusters to find or existing medoids max_iter (int) – maximum number of iterations init (str, "random", "first" or "build") –
initialization method random_state (int, RandomState instance or None) – random seed if no medoids are given k-medoids clustering result KMedoidsResult PAM k-medoids clustering – BUILD only This is an implementation of the original PAM (Partitioning Around Medoids) clustering algorithm. For improved versions, see the fastpam and fasterpam methods. References: Leonard Kaufman, Peter J. Rousseeuw: Clustering by means of medoids. In: Dodge Y (ed) Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L 1 Norm and Related Methods, 405-416, 1987 Leonard Kaufman, Peter J. Rousseeuw: Finding Groups in
Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis. diss (ndarray) – square numpy array of dissimilarities k (int) – number of clusters to find k-medoids clustering result KMedoidsResult FasterMSC clustering This is an
accelerated version of PAMMEDSIL clustering, that eagerly performs any swap found, and contains the O(k^2) improvement to find the best swaps faster. References: Lars Lenssen, Erich Schubert: Clustering by Direct Optimization of the Medoid Silhouette In: 15th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2022). diss (ndarray) – square numpy array of dissimilarities medoids (int or ndarray) – number of clusters to find or existing medoids max_iter (int) – maximum number of iterations init (str, "random", "first" or "build") – initialization method random_state (int, RandomState instance or
None) – random seed if no medoids are given k-medoids clustering result KMedoidsResult FastMSC clustering This is an accelerated version of PAMMEDSIL clustering, that performs the same swaps as the original PAMMEDSIL (given
the same starting conditions), but finds the best swap O(k^2) times faster. References: Lars Lenssen, Erich Schubert: Clustering by Direct Optimization of the Medoid Silhouette In: 15th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2022). diss (ndarray) – square numpy array of dissimilarities medoids (int or
ndarray) – number of clusters to find or existing medoids max_iter (int) – maximum number of iterations init (str, "random", "first" or "build") – initialization method random_state (int, RandomState instance or None) – random seed if no medoids are given k-medoids clustering result KMedoidsResult PAMSIL k-medoids clustering This is an implementation of the original PAMSIL. References: Mark Van der Laan, Katherine Pollard, Jennifer Bryan: A new partitioning around medoids algorithm. In: Journal of
Statistical Computation and Simulation, pp 575-584, 2003 diss (ndarray) – square numpy array of dissimilarities medoids (int or ndarray) – number of clusters to find or existing medoidsInstallation
Installation with pip
Compilation from source
Example
Using the sklearn-compatible API
MNIST (10k samples)
Implemented
Algorithms
FasterPAM
kmedoids.fasterpam(diss, medoids,
max_iter=100, init='random', random_state=None,
n_cpu=-1)
ReturnsFastPAM1
kmedoids.fastpam1(diss, medoids, max_iter=100,
init='random', random_state=None)
ReturnsPAM
kmedoids.pam(diss, medoids, max_iter=100,
init='build', random_state=None)
ReturnsAlternating k-medoids (k-means
style)
kmedoids.alternating(diss, medoids, max_iter=100,
init='random', random_state=None)
ReturnsPAM BUILD
kmedoids.pam_build(diss, k)
ReturnsFasterMSC
kmedoids.fastermsc(diss, medoids,
max_iter=100, init='random', random_state=None)
ReturnsFastMSC
kmedoids.fastmsc(diss, medoids, max_iter=100,
init='random', random_state=None)
ReturnsPAMSIL
kmedoids.pamsil(diss, medoids, max_iter=100, init='build',
random_state=None)
max_iter (int) – maximum number of iterations
init (str, "random", "first" or "build") – initialization method
random_state (int, RandomState instance or None) – random seed if no medoids are given
k-medoids clustering result
Return typeKMedoidsResult
PAMMEDSIL
kmedoids.pammedsil(diss, medoids, max_iter=100, init='build', random_state=None)PAMMEDSIL clustering
This is an implementation of the original PAMMEDSIL clustering algorithm. For improved versions, see the fastmsc and fastermsc methods.
References:
Mark Van der Laan, Katherine Pollard, Jennifer Bryan:
A new partitioning around medoids algorithm.
In: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, pp 575-584, 2003
Parametersdiss (ndarray) – square numpy array of dissimilarities
medoids (int or ndarray) – number of clusters to find or existing medoids
max_iter (int) – maximum number of iterations
init (str, "random", "first" or "build") – initialization method
random_state (int, RandomState instance or None) – random seed if no medoids are given
k-medoids clustering result
Return typeKMedoidsResult
Silhouette
kmedoids.silhouette(diss, labels, samples=False, n_cpu=-1)Silhouette index for cluster evaluation.
The Silhouette, proposed by Peter Rousseeuw in 1987, is a popular internal evaluation measure for clusterings. Although it is defined on arbitary metrics, it is most appropriate for evaluating “spherical” clusters, as it expects objects to be closer to all members of its own cluster than to members of other clusters.
References:
Peter J. Rousseeuw:
Silhouettes: A graphical aid to the interpretation and validation of cluster analysis
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Volume 20, 1987
Parametersdiss (ndarray) – square numpy array of dissimilarities
labels (ndarray of int) – cluster labels (use 0 to k-1, no negative values allowed)
samples (boolean) – whether to return individual samples or not
n_cpu (int) – number of threads to use (-1: automatic)
tuple containing the average silhouette and the individual samples
Return type(float, ndarray)
Medoid Silhouette
kmedoids.medoid_silhouette(diss, meds, samples=False)Medoid Silhouette index for cluster evaluation.
The Medoid Silhouette is an approximation to the Silhouette index, that uses the distance to the cluster medoids instead of the average distance to the other cluster members. If every point is assigned to the nearest medoid, the Medoid Silhouette of a point reduces to 1-a/b where a is the distance to the nearest, and b the distance to the second nearest medoid. If b is 0, the Medoid Silhouette is 1.
This function assumes you already have a distance matrix. It is not necessary to compute a distance matrix to evaluate the medoid silhouette – only the distances between points and medoids are necessary. If you do not have a distance matrix, simply compute the medoid Silhouette directly, by computing (1) the N x k distance matrix to the medoids, (2) finding the two smallest values for each data point, and (3) computing the average of 1-a/b on these (with 0/0 as 0). This can be implemented in a few lines with numpy easily.
Parametersdiss (ndarray) – square numpy array of dissimilarities
meds (ndarray of int) – medoid indexes (k distinct values in 0 to n-1)
samples (boolean) – whether to return individual samples or not
tuple containing the average Medoid Silhouette and the individual samples
Return type(float, ndarray)
k-Medoids result object
classkmedoids.KMedoidsResult(loss, labels, medoids, n_iter=None, n_swap=None)K-medoids clustering result
Parametersloss (float) – Loss of this clustering (sum of deviations)
labels (ndarray) – Cluster assignment
medoids (ndarray) – Chosen medoid indexes
n_iter (int) – Number of iterations
n_swap (int) – Number of swaps performed
sklearn-compatible API
classkmedoids.KMedoids(n_clusters, *, metric='precomputed', metric_params=None, method='fasterpam', init='random', max_iter=300, random_state=None)K-Medoids Clustering using PAM, FasterPAM, and FasterMSC (sklearn-compatible API).
References:
Erich Schubert and Lars Lenssen:
Fast k-medoids Clustering in Rust and Python
Journal of Open Source Software 7(75), 4183
Erich Schubert, Peter J. Rousseeuw:
Fast and Eager k-Medoids Clustering
O(k) Runtime Improvement of the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS Algorithms
Information Systems (101), 2021, 101804
Erich Schubert, Peter J. Rousseeuw:
Faster k-Medoids Clustering: Improving the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS Algorithms
In: 12th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2019), 171-187.
Lars Lenssen, Erich Schubert:
Clustering by Direct Optimization of the Medoid Silhouette
In: 15th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2022).
Leonard Kaufman, Peter J. Rousseeuw:
Clustering by means of medoids.
In: Dodge Y (ed) Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L 1 Norm and Related Methods, 405-416, 1987
Leonard Kaufman, Peter J. Rousseeuw:
Finding Groups in Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis.
Mark Van der Laan, Katherine Pollard, Jennifer Bryan:
A new partitioning around medoids algorithm.
In: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, pp 575-584, 2003
Parametersn_clusters (int) – The number of clusters to form
metric (string, default: 'precomputed') – It is recommended to use ‘precomputed’, in particular when experimenting with different n_clusters. If you have sklearn installed, you may pass any metric supported by sklearn.metrics.pairwise_distances.
metric_params (dict, default=None) – Additional keyword arguments for the metric function.
method (string, "fasterpam" (default), "fastpam1", "pam", "alternate", "fastermsc", "fastmsc", "pamsil" or "pammedsil") – Which algorithm to use
init (string, "random" (default), "first" or "build") – initialization method
max_iter (int) – Specify the maximum number of iterations when fitting
random_state (int, RandomState instance or None) – random seed if no medoids are given
cluster_centers_ – None for ‘precomputed’
medoid_indices_ – The indices of the medoid rows in X
labels_ – Labels of each point
inertia_ – Sum of distances of samples to their closest cluster center
Fit K-Medoids to the provided data.
ParametersX ({array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = (n_samples, n_samples)) – Dataset to cluster
y – ignored
self
fit_predict(X, y=None)Predict the closest cluster for each sample in X.
ParametersX (array-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)) – Input data
y (Ignored) – Not used, present for API consistency by convention
Cluster labels
Return typendarray of shape (n_samples,)
fit_transform(X, y=None, **fit_params)Fit to data, then transform it.
Fits transformer to X and y with optional parameters fit_params and returns a transformed version of X.
Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)Input samples.
yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs), default=NoneTarget values (None for unsupervised transformations).
**fit_paramsdictAdditional fit parameters.
X_newndarray array of shape (n_samples, n_features_new)Transformed array.
get_params(deep=True)Get parameters for this estimator.
deepbool, default=TrueIf True, will return the parameters for this estimator and contained subobjects that are estimators.
paramsdictParameter names mapped to their values.
predict(X)Predict the closest cluster for each sample in X.
ParametersX ({array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = (n_samples, n_samples)) – New data to predict
ReturnsIndex of the cluster each sample belongs to
Return typearray, shape = (n_query,)
set_params(**params)Set the parameters of this estimator.
The method works on simple estimators as well as on nested objects (such as Pipeline). The latter have parameters of the form <component>__<parameter> so that it’s possible to update each component of a nested object.
**paramsdictEstimator parameters.
selfestimator instanceEstimator instance.
transform(X)Transforms X to cluster-distance space.
ParametersX ({array-like}, shape (n_query, n_features), or (n_query, n_indexed) if metric == 'precomputed') – Data to transform
ReturnsX transformed in the new space of distances to cluster centers
Return type{array-like}, shape=(n_query, n_clusters)
References
This software has been published in the Journal of Open-Source Software:
Erich Schubert and Lars Lenssen:
Fast k-medoids Clustering in Rust and Python
Journal of Open Source Software 7(75), 4183
For further details on the implemented algorithm FasterPAM, see:
Erich Schubert, Peter J. Rousseeuw
Fast and Eager k-Medoids Clustering:
O(k) Runtime Improvement of the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS Algorithms
Information Systems (101), 2021, 101804
an earlier (slower, and now obsolete) version was published as:
Erich Schubert, Peter J. Rousseeuw:
Faster k-Medoids Clustering: Improving the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS Algorithms
In: 12th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2019), 171-187.
For further details on medoid Silhouette clustering with FasterMSC, see:
Lars Lenssen, Erich Schubert:
Clustering by Direct Optimization of the Medoid Silhouette
In: 15th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2022).
This is a port of the original Java code from ELKI to Rust. The Rust version is then wrapped for use with Python.
If you use this code in scientific work, please cite above papers. Thank you.
License: GPL-3 or later
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