Semi-supervised Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Using Clusterwise Tolerance Based Pairwise Constraints

Recently, semi-supervised clustering has been remarked and discussed in many researches. In semi-supervised clustering, pairwise constraints, that is, must-link and cannot-link are frequently used in order to improve clustering results by using prior knowledges or informations. In this paper, we will propose a clusterwise tolerance based pairwise constraint. In addition, we will propose semi-supervised agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithms with centroid method based on it. Moreover, we will show the effectiveness of proposed method through numerical examples.