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Adding Yinyang K-Means implementation

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Description

The proposed Yinyang K-Means algorithm modification offers a significant speedup while keeping giving exactly the same results (compared to regular K-Means).

Here’s the original paper presented at ICML’15: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ding15.pdf

@amueller kindly informed me that @MechCoder has mentioned it somewhere and probably has started implementation.

@MechCoder, can you please give an update?

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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reading the linked ICML’15 Yinyang K-Means paper and locating the existing regular K-Means implementation; done means an implementation that provides a speedup while producing exactly the same results as regular K-Means.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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