In this paper, it is proposed that coastal flood ensemble forecasts be partitioned into sub-ensemble forecasts using cluster analysis in order to produce representative statistics and to measure forecast uncertainty arising from the presence of clusters. After clustering the ensemble members, the ability to predict the cluster into which the observation will fall can be measured using a cluster...

This thesis investigates the generalization problem in artificial neural networks, attacking it from two major approaches: regularization and model selection. On the regularization side, under the framework of Kullback–Leibler divergence for feedforward neural networks, we develop a new formula for the regularization parameter in Gaussian density kernel estimation based on available training da...

593 We present a review of extended ensemble methods and ensemble optimization techniques. Extended ensemble methods, such as multicanonical sampling, broad histograms, or parallel tempering aim to accelerate the simulation of systems with large energy barriers, as they occur in the vicinity of first order phase transitions or in complex systems with rough energy landscapes, such as spin glasse...

Clustering, in data mining, is useful to discover distribution patterns in the underlying data. Clustering algorithms usually employ a distance metric based (e.g., Euclidean) similarity measure in order to partition the database such that data points in the same partition are more similar than points in different partitions. The problem of clustering becomes more challenging when the data is ca...

Cluster analysis deals with the automatic discovery of the grouping of a set of patterns. Despite more than 40 years of research, there are still many challenges in data clustering from both theoretical and practical viewpoints. In this paper, we describe several recent advances in data clustering: clustering ensemble, feature selection, and clustering with constraints.

We propose a model-based approach to identifying clusters of objects based on subsets of attributes, so that the attributes that distinguish a cluster from the rest of the population, called an attribute ensemble, may depend on the cluster being considered. The model is based on a Pólya urn cluster model, which is equivalent to a Dirichlet process mixture of multivariate normal distributions. T...

This paper describes a novel feature selection algorithm for unsupervised clustering, that combines the clustering ensembles method and the population based incremental learning algorithm. The main idea of the proposed unsupervised feature selection algorithm is to search for a subset of all features such that the clustering algorithm trained on this feature subset can achieve the most similar ...