On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jeff Eastman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've been able to prototype a ClusterClassifier which, like > VectorModelClassifier, extends AbstractVectorClassifier but which also > implements OnlineLearner and Writable. > Implementing OnlineLearner is a surprise here. Have to think about it since the learning doesn't have a target variable. > ... If this could be completed it would seem to allow kmeans, fuzzyk, > dirichlet and maybe even meanshift cluster classifiers to be used with SGD. > Very cool. ... The challenge would be to use AVC.classify() in the various clusterers > or to extract initial centers for kmeans & fuzzyk. Dirichlet might be > adaptable more directly since its models only have to produce the pi vector > of pdfs. > Yes. Dirichlet is the one where this makes sense.
