Reinhard Diestel, Tangles of set separations: a novel clustering method and type recognition in machine learning
Zoom ID: 869 4632 6610 (ibsdimag)Traditional clustering identifies groups of objects that share certain qualities. Tangles do the converse: they identify groups of qualities that typically occur together. They can thereby discover, relate, and structure types: of behaviour, political views, texts, or proteins. Tangles offer a new, quantitative, paradigm for grouping phenomena rather than things. They can identify key phenomena …