This repo contains a high-performance implementation of BanditPAM from BanditPAM: Almost Linear-Time k-Medoids Clustering. The code can be called directly from Python, R, or C++.
If you use this software, please cite:
Mo Tiwari, Martin Jinye Zhang, James Mayclin, Sebastian Thrun, Chris Piech, Ilan Shomorony. "BanditPAM: Almost Linear Time k-medoids Clustering via Multi-Armed Bandits" Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020.
@inproceedings{BanditPAM,
title={BanditPAM: Almost Linear Time k-medoids Clustering via Multi-Armed Bandits},
author={Tiwari, Mo and Zhang, Martin J and Mayclin, James and Thrun, Sebastian and Piech, Chris and Shomorony, Ilan},
booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
pages={368--374},
year={2020}
}TL;DR run python -m pip install banditpam or install.packages(banditpam) and jump to the examples.
If you have any difficulties, please see the platform-specific guides and file a Github issue if you have additional trouble.
This can be done either through PyPI (recommended)
/BanditPAM/: python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
/BanditPAM/: python -m pip install banditpamOR through the source code via
/BanditPAM/: git submodule update --init --recursive
/BanditPAM/: cd headers/carma
/BanditPAM/: mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DCARMA_INSTALL_LIB=ON .. && sudo cmake --build . --config Release --target install
/BanditPAM/: cd ../../..
/BanditPAM/: python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
/BanditPAM/: sudo python -m pip install .from banditpam import KMedoids
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Generate data from a Gaussian Mixture Model with the given means:
np.random.seed(0)
n_per_cluster = 40
means = np.array([[0,0], [-5,5], [5,5]])
X = np.vstack([np.random.randn(n_per_cluster, 2) + mu for mu in means])
# Fit the data with BanditPAM:
kmed = KMedoids(n_medoids=3, algorithm="BanditPAM")
kmed.fit(X, 'L2')
print(kmed.average_loss) # prints 1.2482391595840454
print(kmed.labels) # prints cluster assignments [0] * 40 + [1] * 40 + [2] * 40
# Visualize the data and the medoids:
for p_idx, point in enumerate(X):
if p_idx in map(int, kmed.medoids):
plt.scatter(X[p_idx, 0], X[p_idx, 1], color='red', s = 40)
else:
plt.scatter(X[p_idx, 0], X[p_idx, 1], color='blue', s = 10)
plt.show()
# Start in the repository root directory, i.e. '/BanditPAM/'.
from banditpam import KMedoids
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.manifold import TSNE
# Load the 1000-point subset of MNIST and calculate its t-SNE embeddings for visualization:
X = pd.read_csv('data/MNIST_1k.csv', sep=' ', header=None).to_numpy()
X_tsne = TSNE(n_components=2).fit_transform(X)
# Fit the data with BanditPAM:
kmed = KMedoids(n_medoids=10, algorithm="BanditPAM")
kmed.fit(X, 'L2')
# Visualize the data and the medoids via t-SNE:
for p_idx, point in enumerate(X):
if p_idx in map(int, kmed.medoids):
plt.scatter(X_tsne[p_idx, 0], X_tsne[p_idx, 1], color='red', s = 40)
else:
plt.scatter(X_tsne[p_idx, 0], X_tsne[p_idx, 1], color='blue', s = 5)
plt.show()Please see here.
Documentation for BanditPAM can be found on read the docs.
Please note that it is NOT necessary to build the C++ executable from source to use the Python code above. However, if you would like to use the C++ executable directly, follow the instructions below.
We highly recommend building using Docker. One can download and install Docker by following instructions at the Docker install page. Once you have Docker installed and the Docker Daemon is running, run the following commands:
/BanditPAM/scripts/docker$ chmod +x env_setup.sh
/BanditPAM/scripts/docker$ ./env_setup.sh
/BanditPAM/scripts/docker$ ./run_docker.sh
which will start a Docker instance with the necessary dependencies. Then:
/BanditPAM$ mkdir build && cd build
/BanditPAM/build$ cmake .. && make
This will create an executable named BanditPAM in BanditPAM/build/src.
Building this repository requires four external requirements:
- CMake >= 3.17
- Armadillo >= 10.5.3
- OpenMP >= 2.5 (OpenMP is supported by default on most Linux platforms, and can be downloaded through homebrew on MacOS)
- CARMA >= 0.6.2
If installing these requirements from source, one can generally use the following procedure to install each requirement from the library's root folder (with armadillo used as an example here):
/armadillo$ mkdir build && cd build
/armadillo/build$ cmake .. && make && sudo make install
Note that CARMA has different installation instructions; see its instructions.
Further installation information for MacOS, Linux, and Windows is available in the docs folder. Ensure all the requirements above are installed and then run:
/BanditPAM$ mkdir build && cd build
/BanditPAM/build$ cmake .. && make
This will create an executable named BanditPAM in BanditPAM/build/src.
Once the executable has been built, it can be invoked with:
/BanditPAM/build/src/BanditPAM -f [path/to/input.csv] -k [number of clusters]
-fis mandatory and specifies the path to the dataset-kis mandatory and specifies the number of clusters with which to fit the data
For example, if you ran ./env_setup.sh and downloaded the MNIST dataset, you could run:
/BanditPAM/build/src/BanditPAM -f ../data/MNIST_1k.csv -k 10
The expected output in the command line will be:
Medoids: 694,168,306,714,324,959,527,251,800,737
One of the advantages of
This also allows for clustering of "exotic" objects like trees, graphs, natural language, and more -- settings where running
The package currently supports a number of distance metrics, including all
If you're willing to write a little C++, you only need to add a few lines to kmedoids_algorithm.cpp and kmedoids_algorithm.hpp to implement your distance metric / pairwise dissimilarity!
Then, be sure to re-install the repository with a python -m pip install . (note the trailing .).
The maintainers of this repository are working on permitting arbitrary dissimilarity metrics that users write in Python, as well; see #4.
To run the full suite of tests, run in the root directory:
/BanditPAM$ python -m unittest discover -s tests
Alternatively, to run a "smaller" set of tests, from the main repo folder run python tests/test_smaller.py or python tests/test_larger.py to run a set of longer, more intensive tests.
Mo Tiwari wrote the original Python implementation of BanditPAM and many features of the C++ implementation. Mo and Adarsh Kumarappan now maintain the implementations.
James Mayclin developed the initial C++ implementation of BanditPAM.
The original BanditPAM paper was published by Mo Tiwari, Martin Jinye Zhang, James Mayclin, Sebastian Thrun, Chris Piech, and Ilan Shomorony.
We would like to thank Jerry Quinn, David Durst, Geet Sethi, and Max Horton for helpful guidance regarding the C++ implementation.
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