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|  **DATE:**|Thursday, November 20, 2014 |
|  **TIME:**|1:15pm to 2:15pm |
|  **PLACE:**|OW 100E |
|  **SPEAKER:**|Nan Bi (Binghamton University) |
|  **TITLE:**|Paper review on "Clustering Stability: An Overview"  |
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<WRAP centeralign>**Abstract**</WRAP>
A popular method for selecting the number of clusters is based on stability arguments: one chooses the number of clusters such that the corresponding clustering results are "most stable". In recent years, a series of papers has analyzed the behavior of this method from a theoretical point of view. However, the results are very technical and difficult to interpret for non-experts. In this monograph we give a high-level overview about the existing literature on clustering stability. In addition to presenting the results in a slightly informal but accessible way, we relate them to each other and discuss their different implications.
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