RFC: add on-line k-means clustering
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## Description
> Description of the feature request.
This RFC proposes to add an implementation for on-line k-means clustering with automatic determination of `k`. This stands in contrast to traditional k-means clustering implementations which require the number of clusters `k` to be known _a priori_.
## Related Issues
> Does this feature request have any related issues?
No.
## Questions
> Any questions for reviewers?
- What should the package name be and where should the package reside in the project? The implementation performs incremental updates and, thus, fits within the realm of `ml/incr`; however, `ml/incr/kmeans` is currently allotted to an implementation requiring a fixed number of `k` clusters. This implementation is adaptive. So possibly the name should be `ml/incr/adaptive-kmeans` or `ml/incr/akmeans`?
## Other
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Reference literature:
- [_An algorithm for online k-means clustering_](https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/1.9781611974317.7)
- [presentation](http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/el327/papers/OnlineKMeansAlenexEdoLiberty.pdf)
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