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function

`scipy.cluster.vq._vq_impl:kmeans2`

source: build-install/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/scipy/cluster/vq/_vq_impl.py:602

Signature

def kmeans2(data, k, iter = 10, thresh = 1e-05, minit = random, missing = warn, check_finite = True, *, rng = None, seed = None)

Summary

Classify a set of observations into k clusters using the k-means algorithm.

Extended Summary

The algorithm attempts to minimize the Euclidean distance between observations and centroids. Several initialization methods are included.

Parameters

data : ndarray

A 'M' by 'N' array of 'M' observations in 'N' dimensions or a length 'M' array of 'M' 1-D observations.

k : int or ndarray

The number of clusters to form as well as the number of centroids to generate. If minit initialization string is 'matrix', or if an ndarray is given instead, it is interpreted as initial cluster to use instead.

iter : int, optional

Number of iterations of the k-means algorithm to run. Note that this differs in meaning from the iters parameter to the kmeans function.

thresh : float, optional

(not used yet)

minit : str, optional

Method for initialization. Available methods are 'random', 'points', '++' and 'matrix':

'random': generate k centroids from a Gaussian with mean and variance estimated from the data.

'points': choose k observations (rows) at random from data for the initial centroids.

'++': choose k observations accordingly to the kmeans++ method (careful seeding)

'matrix': interpret the k parameter as a k by M (or length k array for 1-D data) array of initial centroids.

missing : str, optional

Method to deal with empty clusters. Available methods are 'warn' and 'raise':

'warn': give a warning and continue.

'raise': raise a ClusterError and terminate the algorithm.

check_finite : bool, optional

Whether to check that the input matrices contain only finite numbers. Disabling may give a performance gain, but may result in problems (crashes, non-termination) if the inputs do contain infinities or NaNs. Default: True

rng : {None, int, `numpy.random.Generator`}, optional

If rng is passed by keyword, types other than numpy.random.Generator are passed to numpy.random.default_rng to instantiate a Generator. If rng is already a Generator instance, then the provided instance is used. Specify rng for repeatable function behavior.

If this argument is passed by position or seed is passed by keyword, legacy behavior for the argument seed applies:

If seed is None (or numpy.random), the numpy.random.RandomState singleton is used.
If seed is an int, a new RandomState instance is used, seeded with seed.
If seed is already a Generator or RandomState instance then that instance is used.

Returns

centroid : ndarray: A 'k' by 'N' array of centroids found at the last iteration of k-means.
label : ndarray: label[i] is the code or index of the centroid the ith observation is closest to.

Examples

from scipy.cluster.vq import kmeans2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

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Create z, an array with shape (100, 2) containing a mixture of samples from three multivariate normal distributions.

rng = np.random.default_rng()
a = rng.multivariate_normal([0, 6], [[2, 1], [1, 1.5]], size=45)
b = rng.multivariate_normal([2, 0], [[1, -1], [-1, 3]], size=30)
c = rng.multivariate_normal([6, 4], [[5, 0], [0, 1.2]], size=25)
z = np.concatenate((a, b, c))
rng.shuffle(z)

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Compute three clusters.

centroid, label = kmeans2(z, 3, minit='points')

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centroid

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array([[1.79235, 0.17451],
       [0.23768, 6.12587],
       [6.45516, 3.99693]])

How many points are in each cluster?

counts = np.bincount(label)

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counts

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array([30, 48, 22])

Plot the clusters.

w0 = z[label == 0]
w1 = z[label == 1]
w2 = z[label == 2]

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plt.plot(w0[:, 0], w0[:, 1], 'o', alpha=0.5, label='cluster 0')
plt.plot(w1[:, 0], w1[:, 1], 'd', alpha=0.5, label='cluster 1')
plt.plot(w2[:, 0], w2[:, 1], 's', alpha=0.5, label='cluster 2')
plt.plot(centroid[:, 0], centroid[:, 1], 'k*', label='centroids')
plt.axis('equal')
plt.legend(shadow=True)

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<matplotlib.legend.Legend object at 0x7f3f43327e00>

plt.show()

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Aliases

scipy.cluster.vq.kmeans2