A Self-Adaptive Weights for K-Means Classification Algorithm

dc.contributor.authorChenghu, Cui
dc.contributor.authorThammano, Arit
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-06T10:52:03Z
dc.date.available2026-08-06T10:52:03Z
dc.date.issued2025-09-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents an improved K-means clustering algorithm that addresses the traditional algorithm’s sensitivity to outlier and susceptibility to local optima by introducing an adaptive weight adjustment mechanism. It employs an exponential decay function to dynamically reduce the feature weights of outlier data points, effectively suppressing outliers while preserving the structure of the normal data. The proposed method retains the computational efficiency of standard K-means. Key contributions include: (a) A novel distance-based weighting strategy that progressively reduces the influence of noisy points, mitigating the impact of outliers on clustering performance. (b) An innovative form of "local dimensionality reduction" for outlier points via weight decay, which interferes only with the feature space of noisy regions while preserving the global topological structure of clean data. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets Iris (4-dimensional, balanced classes), Wine (13-dimensional, correlated features), and Wisconsin Breast Cancer Diagnosis (30-dimensional, imbalanced data) demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach. Compared to standard K-means, the proposed algorithm achieves accuracy improvements of 7.47% on Iris, 13.89% on Wine, and 19% on WBCD. This adaptive strategy offers a practical and efficient solution for clustering in noisy, high-dimensional environments, without the added complexity of mixture models.
dc.identifier.citationHightech and Innovation Journal, 6(3), 903-917, 2025
dc.identifier.doi10.28991/HIJ-2025-06-03-010
dc.identifier.issn27239535
dc.identifier.other2-s2.0-105022823165
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.kmitl.ac.th/handle/123456789/17203
dc.sourceHightech and Innovation Journal
dc.subjectAdaptive Weights
dc.subjectClassification
dc.subjectK-Means Classification
dc.subjectMachine Learning
dc.titleA Self-Adaptive Weights for K-Means Classification Algorithm
dc.typeArticle

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