Partitioning Around Medoids Clustering Learner

A LearnerClust for PAM clustering implemented in cluster::pam(). cluster::pam() doesn't have a default value for the number of clusters. Therefore, the k parameter which corresponds to the number of clusters here is set to 2 by default. The predict method uses clue::cl_predict() to compute the cluster memberships for new data.

Dictionary

This Learner can be instantiated via the dictionary mlr_learners or with the associated sugar function lrn():

mlr_learners$get("clust.pam")
lrn("clust.pam")

Meta Information

• Task type: “clust”

• Predict Types: “partition”

• Feature Types: “logical”, “integer”, “numeric”

• Required Packages: mlr3, mlr3cluster, cluster

Parameters

Id	Type	Default	Levels	Range
k	integer	2		\([1, \infty)\)
metric	character	-	euclidian, manhattan	-
medoids	untyped			-
stand	logical	FALSE	TRUE, FALSE	-
do.swap	logical	TRUE	TRUE, FALSE	-
pamonce	integer	0		\([0, 5]\)
trace.lev	integer	0		\([0, \infty)\)

References

Reynolds, P A, Richards, Graeme, de la Iglesia, Beatriz, Rayward-Smith, J V (2006). “Clustering rules: a comparison of partitioning and hierarchical clustering algorithms.” Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 5, 475--504.

Schubert, Erich, Rousseeuw, J P (2019). “Faster k-medoids clustering: improving the PAM, CLARA, and CLARANS algorithms.” In Similarity Search and Applications: 12th International Conference, SISAP 2019, Newark, NJ, USA, October 2--4, 2019, Proceedings 12, 171--187. Springer.

See also

• Chapter in the mlr3book: https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/chapters/chapter2/data_and_basic_modeling.html#sec-learners

• Package mlr3extralearners for more learners.

• Dictionary of Learners: mlr_learners

• as.data.table(mlr_learners) for a table of available Learners in the running session (depending on the loaded packages).

• mlr3pipelines to combine learners with pre- and postprocessing steps.

• Extension packages for additional task types:

  • mlr3proba for probabilistic supervised regression and survival analysis.

  • mlr3cluster for unsupervised clustering.

• mlr3tuning for tuning of hyperparameters, mlr3tuningspaces for established default tuning spaces.

Other Learner: mlr_learners_clust.MBatchKMeans, mlr_learners_clust.SimpleKMeans, mlr_learners_clust.agnes, mlr_learners_clust.ap, mlr_learners_clust.cmeans, mlr_learners_clust.cobweb, mlr_learners_clust.dbscan, mlr_learners_clust.dbscan_fpc, mlr_learners_clust.diana, mlr_learners_clust.em, mlr_learners_clust.fanny, mlr_learners_clust.featureless, mlr_learners_clust.ff, mlr_learners_clust.hclust, mlr_learners_clust.hdbscan, mlr_learners_clust.kkmeans, mlr_learners_clust.kmeans, mlr_learners_clust.mclust, mlr_learners_clust.meanshift, mlr_learners_clust.optics, mlr_learners_clust.xmeans

Super classes

mlr3::Learner -> mlr3cluster::LearnerClust -> LearnerClustPAM

Methods

Public methods

• LearnerClustPAM$new()

• LearnerClustPAM$clone()

Inherited methods

• mlr3::Learner$base_learner()
• mlr3::Learner$format()
• mlr3::Learner$help()
• mlr3::Learner$predict()
• mlr3::Learner$predict_newdata()
• mlr3::Learner$print()
• mlr3::Learner$train()
• mlr3cluster::LearnerClust$reset()

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Method new()

Creates a new instance of this R6 class.

Usage

LearnerClustPAM$new()

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

LearnerClustPAM$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

if (requireNamespace("cluster")) {
  learner = mlr3::lrn("clust.pam")
  print(learner)

  # available parameters:
  learner$param_set$ids()
}
#> <LearnerClustPAM:clust.pam>: Partitioning Around Medoids
#> * Model: -
#> * Parameters: k=2
#> * Packages: mlr3, mlr3cluster, cluster
#> * Predict Types:  [partition]
#> * Feature Types: logical, integer, numeric
#> * Properties: complete, exclusive, partitional
#> [1] "k"         "metric"    "medoids"   "stand"     "do.swap"   "pamonce"  
#> [7] "trace.lev"