I have the following setup for kmeans clustering algorithm that I am implementing for a project:
import numpy as np
import scipy
import sys
import random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import operator
class KMeansClass:
#takes in an npArray like object
def __init__(self,dataset,k):
self.dataset=np.array(dataset)
#initialize mins to maximum possible value
self.min_x = sys.maxint
self.min_y = sys.maxint
#initialize maxs to minimum possible value
self.max_x = -(sys.maxint)-1
self.max_y = -(sys.maxint)-1
self.k = k
#a is the coefficient matrix that is continually updated as the centroids of the clusters change respectively.
# It is an mxk matrix where each row corresponds to a training_instance and each column corresponds to a centroid of a cluster
#Values are either 0 or 1. A value for a particular training_instance (data_point) is 1 only for that centroid to which the training_instance
# has the least distance else the value is 0.
self.a = np.zeros(shape=[self.dataset.shape[0],self.k])
self.distanceMatrix = np.empty(shape =[self.dataset.shape[0],self.k])
#initialize mu to zeros of the requisite shape array for now. Change this after implementing max and min methods.
self.mu = np.empty(shape=[k,2])
self.findMinMaxdataPoints()
self.initializeCentroids()
self.createDistanceMatrix()
self.scatterPlotOfInitializedPoints()
#pointa and pointb are npArray like vecors.
def euclideanDistance(self,pointa,pointb):
return np.sqrt(np.sum((pointa - pointb)**2))
""" Problem Initialization And Visualization Helper methods"""
##############################################################################
#@param: dataset : list of tuples [(x1,y1),(x2,y2),...(xm,ym)]
def findMinMaxdataPoints(self):
for item in self.dataset:
self.min_x = min(self.min_x,item[0])
self.min_y = min(self.min_y,item[1])
self.max_x = max(self.max_x,item[0])
self.max_y = max(self.max_y,item[1])
def initializeCentroids(self):
for i in range(self.k):
#each value of mu is a tuple with a random number between (min_x - max_x) and (min_y - max_y)
self.mu[i] = (random.randint(self.min_x,self.max_x),random.randint(self.min_y,self.max_y))
self.sortCentroids()
print self.mu
def sortCentroids(self):
#the following 3 lines of code are to ensure that the mu values are always sorted in ascending order first with respect to the
#x values and then with respect to the y values.
half_sorted = sorted(self.mu,key=operator.itemgetter(1)) #sort wrt y values
full_sorted = sorted(half_sorted,key=operator.itemgetter(0)) #sort the y-sorted array wrt x-values
self.mu = np.array(full_sorted)
def scatterPlotOfInitializedPoints(self):
plt.scatter([item[0] for item in self.dataset],[item[1] for item in self.dataset],color='b')
plt.scatter([item[0] for item in self.mu],[item[1] for item in self.mu],color='r')
plt.show()
###############################################################################
#minimizing euclidean distance is the same as minimizing the square of the euclidean distance.
def calcSquareEuclideanDistanceBetweenTwoPoints(point_a,point_b):
return np.sum((pointa-pointb)**2)
def createDistanceMatrix(self):
for i in range(self.dataset.shape[0]):
for j in range(self.k):
self.distanceMatrix[i,j] = calcSquareEuclideanDistanceBetweenTwoPoints(self.dataset[i],self.mu[j])
def createCoefficientMatrix(self):
for i in range(self.dataset.shape[0]):
self.a[i,self.distanceMatrix[i].argmin()] = 1
#update functions for CoefficientMatrix and Centroid values:
def updateCoefficientMatrix(self):
for i in range(self.dataset.shape[0]):
self.a[i,self.distanceMatrix[i].argmin()]= 1
def updateCentroids(self):
for j in range(self.k):
non_zero_indices = np.nonzero(self.a[:,j])
avg = 0
for i in range(len(non_zero_indices[0])):
avg+=self.a[non_zero_indices[0][i],j]
self.mu[j] = avg/len(non_zero_indices[0])
############################################################
def lossFunction(self):
loss=0;
for j in range(self.k):
#vectorized this implementation.
loss+=np.sum(np.dot(self.a[:,j],self.distanceMatrix[:,j]))
return loss
Here my question pertains to the lossFunction and how to use this with the scipy.optimize package. I would like to minimize the loss function iteratively by performing the following steps:
Repeat until convergence:
a> Optimize 'a' by keeping mu constant ( I have an
updateCoefficientMatrix method for updating 'a' matrix which is an
mXk matrix where we have m training instances and k clusters.)
b> Optimize 'mu' by keeping 'a' constant (I have an updateCentroids
method to do this. where mu is a mXk matrix wherein m is number of
training instances and k is the number of clusters and the number of
centroids)
But I am very new to using scipy.optimize package so I am writing to ask for help as to how to invoke the scipy.optimize to achieve my optimization goal as stated above?
Basically I have 2 mxk matrices and I would like to minimize a lossFunction() by first optimizing one mxk matrix keeping the other constant and in the succeeding step optimize the second matrix keeping the first constant. This can be considered a special case of the expectation maximization problem but unfortunately I haven't quite gotten what the documentation is trying to say so far hence thought I'd turn to SO for help.
Thanks in advance!
And this is part of a class assignment so please do not post code! Any guidance or explanation would be highly appreciated.
