Fuzzy Co-Clustering Induced by Multinomial Mixture Models

A close connection between fuzzy c -means (FCM) and Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) have been discussed and several extended FCM algorithms were induced by the GMMs concept, where fuzzy partitions are proved to be more useful for revealing intrinsic cluster structures than probabilistic ones. Co-clustering is a promising technique for summarizing cooccurrence information such as document-keyword frequencies. In this paper, a fuzzy co-clustering model is induced based on the multinomial mixture models (MMMs) concept, in which the degree of fuzziness of both object and item fuzzy memberships can be properly tuned. The advantages of the dual fuzzy partition are demonstrated through several experimental results including document clustering applications.