conference paper published yes Andreas Müller author Sebastian Nowozin author Christoph Lampert author 40C20FD2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A870000-0001-8622-7887 ChLa department DAGM: German Association For Pattern Recognition In this work we propose a new information-theoretic clustering algorithm that infers cluster memberships by direct optimization of a non-parametric mutual information estimate between data distribution and cluster assignment. Although the optimization objective has a solid theoretical foundation it is hard to optimize. We propose an approximate optimization formulation that leads to an efficient algorithm with low runtime complexity. The algorithm has a single free parameter, the number of clusters to find. We demonstrate superior performance on several synthetic and real datasets. Springer2012Graz, Austria eng 10.1007/978-3-642-32717-9_21 7476205 - 215 Müller, A., Nowozin, S., &#38; Lampert, C. (2012). Information theoretic clustering using minimal spanning trees (Vol. 7476, pp. 205–215). Presented at the DAGM: German Association For Pattern Recognition, Graz, Austria: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32717-9_21">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32717-9_21</a> Müller, Andreas, Sebastian Nowozin, and Christoph Lampert. “Information Theoretic Clustering Using Minimal Spanning Trees,” 7476:205–15. Springer, 2012. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32717-9_21">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32717-9_21</a>. Müller A, Nowozin S, Lampert C. Information theoretic clustering using minimal spanning trees. In: Vol 7476. Springer; 2012:205-215. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32717-9_21">10.1007/978-3-642-32717-9_21</a> Müller, Andreas, et al. <i>Information Theoretic Clustering Using Minimal Spanning Trees</i>. Vol. 7476, Springer, 2012, pp. 205–15, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32717-9_21">10.1007/978-3-642-32717-9_21</a>. Müller A, Nowozin S, Lampert C. 2012. Information theoretic clustering using minimal spanning trees. DAGM: German Association For Pattern Recognition, LNCS, vol. 7476, 205–215. A. Müller, S. Nowozin, C. Lampert, in:, Springer, 2012, pp. 205–215. A. Müller, S. Nowozin, and C. Lampert, “Information theoretic clustering using minimal spanning trees,” presented at the DAGM: German Association For Pattern Recognition, Graz, Austria, 2012, vol. 7476, pp. 205–215. 31262018-12-11T12:01:32Z2021-01-12T07:41:14Z