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Record W107722637 · doi:10.1137/1.9781611972764.41

Cluster Description Formats, Problems and Algorithms

2006· article· en· W107722637 on OpenAlexaff
Byron J. Gao, Martin Ester

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicData Management and Algorithms
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInterpretabilityComputer scienceCluster analysisHeuristicCluster (spacecraft)Data miningCode (set theory)State (computer science)Information retrievalTheoretical computer scienceAlgorithmArtificial intelligenceProgramming language

Abstract

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Clustering is one of the major data mining tasks. So far, the database and data mining literature lacks systematic study of cluster descriptions, which are essential to provide the user with understandable knowledge of the clusters and support further interactive exploration. In this paper, we introduce novel description formats leading to more descriptive power. We define two alternative problems of generating cluster descriptions, Minimum Description Length and Maximum Description Accuracy, providing different trade-offs between interpretability and accuracy. We also present heuristic algorithms for both problems, together with their empirical evaluation and comparison to state-of-the-art algorithms.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.015
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.050
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.082

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0150.050
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0060.013
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0110.015
Open science0.0070.005
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.205
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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