Affiliations: Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Jana Kazimierza 5, 01-248 Warszawa, Poland. [email protected]
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Address for correspondence: Institute of Computer Science, of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Jana Kazimierza 5, 01-248 Warszawa, Poland.
Abstract: We prove in this paper that the expected value of the objective function of the k-means++ algorithm for samples converges to population expected value. As k-means++, for samples, provides with constant factor approximation for k-means objectives, such an approximation can be achieved for the population with increase of the sample size. This result is of potential practical relevance when one is considering using subsampling when clustering large data sets (large data bases).
Keywords: mathematical foundations, data mining, k-means++, consistency, expected value, constant factor approximation, k-means cost function
