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August 25, 2023 4 mins
Affinity Propagation, also known as AP, is a machine learning algorithm that helps group similar data points together. It does this by using a "vote" system, where each data point "votes" for other data points it believes are most similar to itself. It's like a big game of telephone, where each person whispers a message to the next person until everyone has heard it. In AP, data points pass messages to each other until they all agree on which data points are best to represent the different clusters. This algorithm is unsupervised, meaning it doesn't need any pre-labeled data. It figures out the optimal number of clusters and which data points belong to each cluster on its own. This can be incredibly helpful to find patterns in your data and make predictions about new data point values. Using Affinity Propagation can make your job easier by quickly and accurately grouping similar data points together without needing any prior knowledge about the data. So next time you're trying to organize a big group of people, think of Affinity Propagation and its "vote" system to help you group people together based on their similarities!
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