Robust Bregman Clustering
ANNALS OF STATISTICS(2021)
Abstract
Clustering with Bregman divergences encompasses a wide family of clustering procedures that are well suited to mixtures of distributions from exponential families (J. Mach. Learn. Res. 6 (2005) 1705-1749). However, these techniques are highly sensitive to noise. To address the issue of clustering data with possibly adversarial noise, we introduce a robustified version of Bregman clustering based on a trimming approach. We investigate its theoretical properties, showing for instance that our estimator converges at a sub-Gaussian rate 1/root n, where n denotes the sample size, under mild tail assumptions. We also show that it is robust to a certain amount of noise, stated in terms of breakdown point. We also derive a Lloyd-type algorithm with a trimming parameter, along with a heuristic to select this parameter and the number of clusters from sample. Some numerical experiments assess the performance of our method on simulated and real datasets.
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Key words
Clustering, Bregman divergence, robustness
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