EnsembleGeneration_parallel.m

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% D. Huang, C.-D. Wang, H. Peng, J. Lai, & C.-K. Kwoh. "Enhanced Ensemble %
% Clustering via Fast Propagation of Cluster-wise Similarities."To appear %
% in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.         %
% DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2018.2876202                                          %
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% The code has been tested in Matlab R2016a and Matlab R2016b.            %
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function baseCls = EnsembleGeneration_parallel(fea, M, lowerK, upperK)
% This function generates M base clusterings by k-means.
% Each base clustering is generated by k-means with the cluster number randomly selected in [lowerK, upperK].

N = size(fea,1);

clsNums = randi([lowerK, upperK],M,1);

baseCls = zeros(N,M); 
parfor i = 1:M % This is a paralleled version
        baseCls(:,i) = kmeans(fea, clsNums(i));
end