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Dynamic load balancing in parallel KD-tree k-means

Di Fatta, G. and Pettinger, D. (2010) Dynamic load balancing in parallel KD-tree k-means. In: CIT '10: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology. IEEE, Washington DC, pp. 2478-2485. ISBN 978-0-7695-4108-2

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1109/CIT.2010.424

Abstract/Summary

One among the most influential and popular data mining methods is the k-Means algorithm for cluster analysis. Techniques for improving the efficiency of k-Means have been largely explored in two main directions. The amount of computation can be significantly reduced by adopting geometrical constraints and an efficient data structure, notably a multidimensional binary search tree (KD-Tree). These techniques allow to reduce the number of distance computations the algorithm performs at each iteration. A second direction is parallel processing, where data and computation loads are distributed over many processing nodes. However, little work has been done to provide a parallel formulation of the efficient sequential techniques based on KD-Trees. Such approaches are expected to have an irregular distribution of computation load and can suffer from load imbalance. This issue has so far limited the adoption of these efficient k-Means variants in parallel computing environments. In this work, we provide a parallel formulation of the KD-Tree based k-Means algorithm for distributed memory systems and address its load balancing issue. Three solutions have been developed and tested. Two approaches are based on a static partitioning of the data set and a third solution incorporates a dynamic load balancing policy.

Item Type:Book or Report Section
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
ID Code:6127
Uncontrolled Keywords:clustering, dynamic load balancing, KD Trees, parallel k-means Clustering;
Publisher:IEEE
Publisher Statement:(c) 2010 IEEE

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