/BanditPAM

BanditPAM (arxiv.org/abs/2006.06856) C++ implementation and Python package

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BanditPAM: Almost Linear-Time k-Medoids Clustering

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 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}
}

Requirements

TL;DR run pip3 install banditpam and jump to the examples.

If you have any issues, please see the documents below and file a Github issue if you have additional trouble.

Python Quickstart

Install the repo and its dependencies:

This can be done either through PyPI (recommended)

/BanditPAM/: pip install -r requirements.txt
/BanditPAM/: pip install banditpam

OR through the source code via

/BanditPAM/: git submodule update --init --recursive
/BanditPAM/: cd headers/carma
/BanditPAM/: mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && sudo make install
/BanditPAM/: cd ../../..
/BanditPAM/: pip install -r requirements.txt
/BanditPAM/: sudo pip install .

Example 1: Synthetic data from a Gaussian Mixture Model

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")
# Writes results to gmm_log
kmed.fit(X, 'L2', "gmm_log")

# 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()

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Example 2: MNIST and its medoids visualized via t-SNE

# 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', "mnist_log")

# 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()

The corresponding logfile for this run, mnist_log, will contain the run's results and additional statistics in a format that can be easily read into json.

Documentation

Documentation for BanditPAM can be found here:

  • Doxygen docs: BanditPAM/docs/html/index.html

Building the C++ executable from source

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.

Option 1: Building with Docker

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$ chmod +x env_setup.sh
/BanditPAM$ ./env_setup.sh
/BanditPAM$ ./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.

Option 2: Installing Requirements and Building Directly

Building this repository requires four external requirements:

If installing these requirements from source, one can generally use the following procedure to install each requirement from the library's root folder (with CARMA used as an example here):

/BanditPAM$ cd headers/carma
/BanditPAM/headers/carma$ mkdir build && cd build
/BanditPAM/headers/carma/build$ cmake .. && make && sudo make install

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.

C++ Usage

Once the executable has been built, it can be invoked with:

/BanditPAM/build/src/BanditPAM -f [path/to/input.csv] -k [number of clusters] -v [verbosity level]
  • -f is mandatory and specifies the path to the dataset
  • -k is mandatory and specifies the number of clusters with which to fit the data
  • -v is optional and specifies the verbosity level.

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 -v 1

The expected output in the command line will be:

Medoids: 694,168,306,714,324,959,527,251,800,737

A file called KMedoidsLogfile with detailed logs during the process will also be present.

Implementing a custom distance metric

One of the advantages of k-medoids is that it works with arbitrary distance metrics; in fact, your "metric" need not even be a real metric -- it can be negative, asymmetric, and/or not satisfy the triangle inequality or homogeneity. Any pairwise dissimilarity function works with k-medoids!

This also allows for clustering of "exotic" objects like trees, graphs, natural language, and more -- settings where running k-means wouldn't even make sense. We talk about one such setting in the original paper.

The package currently supports a number of distance metrics, including all Lp losses and cosine distance.

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 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.

Testing

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_commit.py or python tests/test_push.py to run a set of longer, more intensive tests.

Reproducing Figures from the Paper

Note that some figures in the original paper were generated using the Python code at https://github.com/motiwari/BanditPAM-python. That code is not pretty, nor is it maintained. It only exists for reference and for reproducibility of the plots.

Credits

Mo Tiwari wrote the original Python implementation of BanditPAM and many features of the C++ implementation. Mo now maintains the C++ implementation.

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.