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Raku ML::Clustering

This repository has the code of a Raku package for Machine Learning (ML) Clustering (or Cluster analysis) functions, [Wk1].

The Clustering framework includes:

The algorithms K-means and K-medoids, and others
The distance functions Euclidean, Cosine, Hamming, Manhattan, and others, and their corresponding similarity functions

The data in the examples below is generated and manipulated with the packages "Data::Generators", "Data::Reshapers", and "Data::Summarizers", described in the article "Introduction to data wrangling with Raku", [AA1].

The plots are made with the package "Text::Plot", [AAp6].

Installation

Via zef-ecosystem:

zef install ML::Clustering

From GitHub:

zef install https://github.com/antononcube/Raku-ML-Clustering

Usage example

Here we derive a set of random points, and summarize it:

use Data::Generators;
use Data::Summarizers;
use Text::Plot;

my $n = 100;
my @data1 = (random-variate(NormalDistribution.new(5,1.5), $n) X random-variate(NormalDistribution.new(5,1), $n)).pick(30);
my @data2 = (random-variate(NormalDistribution.new(10,1), $n) X random-variate(NormalDistribution.new(10,1), $n)).pick(50);
my @data3 = [|@data1, |@data2].pick(*);
records-summary(@data3)

Here we plot the points:

use Text::Plot;
text-list-plot(@data3)

Problem: Group the points in such a way that each group has close (or similar) points.

Here is how we use the function find-clusters to give an answer:

use ML::Clustering;
my %res = find-clusters(@data3, 2, prop => 'All');
%res<Clusters>>>.elems

Remark: The first argument is data points that is a list-of-numeric-lists. The second argument is a number of clusters to be found. (It is in the TODO list to have the number clusters automatically determined -- currently they are not.)

Remark: The function find-clusters can return results of different types controlled with the named argument "prop". Using prop => 'All' returns a hash with all properties of the cluster finding result.

Here are sample points from each found cluster:

.say for %res<Clusters>>>.pick(3);

Here are the centers of the clusters (the mean points):

%res<MeanPoints>

We can verify the result by looking at the plot of the found clusters:

text-list-plot((|%res<Clusters>, %res<MeanPoints>), point-char => <▽ ☐ ●>, title => '▽ - 1st cluster; ☐ - 2nd cluster; ● - cluster centers')

Remark: By default find-clusters uses the K-means algorithm. The functions k-means and k-medoids call find-clusters with the option settings method=>'K-means' and method=>'K-medoids' respectively.

More interesting looking data

Here is more interesting looking two-dimensional data, data2D2:

use Data::Reshapers;
my $pointsPerCluster = 200;
my @data2D5 = [[10,20,4],[20,60,6],[40,10,6],[-30,0,4],[100,100,8]].map({ 
    random-variate(NormalDistribution.new($_[0], $_[2]), $pointsPerCluster) Z random-variate(NormalDistribution.new($_[1], $_[2]), $pointsPerCluster)
   }).Array;
@data2D5 = flatten(@data2D5, max-level=>1).pick(*);
@data2D5.elems

Here is a plot of that data:

text-list-plot(@data2D5)

Here we find clusters and plot them together with their mean points:

srand(32);
my %clRes = find-clusters(@data2D5, 5, prop=>'All');
text-list-plot([|%clRes<Clusters>, %clRes<MeanPoints>], point-char=><1 2 3 4 5 ●>)

Detailed function pages

Detailed parameter explanations and usage examples for the functions provided by the package are given in:

Implementation considerations

UML diagram

Here is a UML diagram that shows package's structure (in Mermaid-JS):

to-uml-spec ML::Clustering --format=mermaid

Remark: Maybe it is a good idea to have an abstract class named, say, ML::Clustering::AbstractFinder that is a parent of ML::Clustering::KMeans, ML::Clustering::KMedoids, ML::Clustering::BiSectionalKMeans, etc., but I have not found to be necessary. (At this point of development.)

Remark: It seems it is better to have a separate package for the distance functions, named, say, "ML::DistanceFunctions". (Although distance functions are not just for ML...) After thinking over package and function names I will make such a package.

TODO

DONE Factor-out the distance functions in a separate package.
TODO Implement Bi-sectional K-means algorithm, [AAp1].
TODO Implement K-medoids algorithm.
TODO Automatic determination of the number of clusters.
TODO Allow data points to be Pair objects the keys of which are point labels.
- Hence, the returned clusters consist of those labels, not points themselves.
TODO Implement Agglomerate algorithm.