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FPGA-based Hardware Accelerators for K-means Algorithm
K-means clustering is the most popular data mining algorithm and is used in image
processing and machine learning. The goal of K-means algorithm is to partition the input
data into the number k of clusters. The K-means clustering algorithm operates on a set of
D-dimensional set X = {x𝑛𝜖𝑅𝐷, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑛=1,…, 𝑁}, and partitions X into k(k ≤N) clusters,
where N is the total number of the input data points. The end result is a set of Ddimensional centroids for the clusters C= {𝐶1, 𝐶2,…, 𝐶𝑘}, each cluster is associated with
the center value. Therefore, the output of objective function in Euclidean distance is
∑𝑘𝑖=0 ∑𝑥∈𝑐𝑖 ||𝑥 − 𝑢𝑖 ||2 , where 𝑢𝑖 is the mean of points (center) in 𝐶𝑖.
The K-means clustering flow is described as following. Firstly, the number k of
clusters and the initial cluster centers are determined. Then, the objects are partitioned
to the nearest cluster by calculating the Euclidean distance between the centers and
each D-dimensional point. Subsequently, the new center values are computed by
calculating the mean of the objects in the clusters to replace the previous centers. After
that, the iteration of partitioning object to the nearest cluster and calculating the new
centers has been repeated until the new cluster centers are approximated. Finally, when
the new cluster sets are all assigned to the nearest cluster, the K-means clustering is
finished.
In the calculation of the Euclidean distance, using FPGA-based hardware
accelerators can effectively reduce the computing time. The feature of FPGA-based
hardware accelerators is parallel processing. With this feature, we can run multiple
operations at the same time, so we can achieve the purpose acceleration.