# Pointwise convergence of the Lloyd algorithm in higher dimension

Abstract : We establish the pointwise convergence of the iterative Lloyd algorithm, also known as $k$-means algorithm, when the quadratic quantization error of the starting grid (with size $N\ge 2$) is lower than the minimal quantization error with respect to the input distribution is lower at level $N-1$. Such a protocol is known as the splitting method and allows for convergence even when the input distribution has an unbounded support. We also show under very light assumption that the resulting limiting grid still has full size $N$. These results are obtained without continuity assumption on the input distribution. A variant of the procedure taking advantage of the asymptotic of the optimal quantizer radius is proposed which always guarantees the boundedness of the iterated grids.
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Pré-publication, Document de travail
2013
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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00922957
Contributeur : Gilles Pagès <>
Soumis le : mardi 31 décembre 2013 - 16:50:47
Dernière modification le : vendredi 4 janvier 2019 - 17:32:34
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• HAL Id : hal-00922957, version 1
• ARXIV : 1401.0192

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Gilles Pagès, Jun Yu. Pointwise convergence of the Lloyd algorithm in higher dimension. 2013. 〈hal-00922957〉

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