gmm16G: Weighted GMM by Gebru et al. (2016)

In T4cluster: Tools for Cluster Analysis

Weighted GMM by Gebru et al. (2016)

Description

When each observation x_i is associated with a weight w_i > 0, modifying the GMM formulation is required. Gebru et al. (2016) proposed a method to use scaled covariance based on an observation that

\mathcal{N}\left(x\vert \mu, \Sigma\right)^w \propto \mathcal{N}\left(x\vert \mu, \frac{\Sigma}{w}\right)

by considering the positive weight as a role of precision. Currently, we provide a method with fixed weight case only while the paper also considers a Bayesian formalism on the weight using Gamma distribution.

Usage

gmm16G(data, k = 2, weight = NULL, ...)

Arguments

data	an (n\times p) matrix of row-stacked observations.
k	the number of clusters (default: 2).
weight	a positive weight vector of length n. If NULL (default), uniform weight is set.
...	extra parameters including maxiter the maximum number of iterations (default: 10). usediag a logical; covariances are diagonal if TRUE, or full covariances are returned for FALSE (default: FALSE).

Value

a named list of S3 class T4cluster containing

cluster

a length-n vector of class labels (from 1:k).

mean

a (k\times p) matrix where each row is a class mean.

variance

a (p\times p\times k) array where each slice is a class covariance.

weight

a length-k vector of class weights that sum to 1.

loglkd

log-likelihood of the data for the fitted model.

algorithm

name of the algorithm.

References

\insertRef

gebru_em_2016T4cluster

Examples

# -------------------------------------------------------------
#            clustering with 'iris' dataset
# -------------------------------------------------------------
## PREPARE
data(iris)
X   = as.matrix(iris[,1:4])
lab = as.integer(as.factor(iris[,5]))

## EMBEDDING WITH PCA
X2d = Rdimtools::do.pca(X, ndim=2)$Y  

## CLUSTERING WITH DIFFERENT K VALUES
cl2 = gmm16G(X, k=2)$cluster
cl3 = gmm16G(X, k=3)$cluster
cl4 = gmm16G(X, k=4)$cluster

## VISUALIZATION
opar <- par(no.readonly=TRUE)
par(mfrow=c(1,4), pty="s")
plot(X2d, col=lab, pch=19, main="true label")
plot(X2d, col=cl2, pch=19, main="gmm16G: k=2")
plot(X2d, col=cl3, pch=19, main="gmm16G: k=3")
plot(X2d, col=cl4, pch=19, main="gmm16G: k=4")
par(opar)

T4cluster documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 5:55 p.m.