Show HN: Want something better than k-means? Try BanditPAM

Want something better than k-means? I’m happy to announce our SOTA k-medoids algorithm from NeurIPS 2020, BanditPAM, is now publicly available! `pip install banditpam` or `install.packages(“banditpam”)` and you’re good to go! k-means is one of the most widely-used algorithms to cluster data. However, it has several limitations: a) it requires the use of L2 distance for efficient clustering, which also […]