lib5c.algorithms.clustering.enclave module

Module for merging clusters using an enclave-swallowing heuristic.

lib5c.algorithms.clustering.enclave.merge_to_which(clusters)

Determines which other cluster, if any, the first cluster in a list of clusters should be merged into.

Parameters:clusters (list of clusters) – The list of clusters to consider. Ideally, this list should be sorted in ascending order of cluster size. Returns:The index of the cluster that the first cluster should be merged into. If the cluster should not be merged, the value will be -1. Return type:int

Notes

Under the enclave heuristic, the condition for merging an orphan cluster into a parent cluster is that the orphan cluster’s peaks must have more adjacent neighbors among the parent cluster’s peaks than among the orphan cluster’s peaks.