Based on the online transaction data of COSCO group's centralized procurement platform, this paper studies the clustering method of time series type data. The different methods of similarity calculation, different clustering methods with different K values are analysed, and the best clustering method suitable for centralized purchasing data is determined. The company list under the corresponding cluster is obtained. The time series motif discovery algorithm is used to model the centroid of each cluster. Through ARIMA method, we also made 12 periods of prediction for the centroid of each category. This paper constructs a matrix of "Customer Lifecycle Theory - Five Elements of Marketing ", and puts forward corresponding marketing suggestions for customers at different life cycle stages.

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In this article we will learn how to use linear regression to predict resale price of a car. Don't worry if you don't have any clue what linear regression means, I will explain the basics as we go along. The first step as always is importing the libraries required. We have to import pandas for working with dataframes. Data required for car resale price prediction is available in CarResalePrice.csv.

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In federated distributed learning, the goal is to optimize a global training objective defined over distributed devices, where the data shard at each device is sampled from a possibly different distribution (a.k.a., heterogeneous or non i.i.d. data samples). In this paper, we generalize the local stochastic and full gradient descent with periodic averaging-- originally designed for homogeneous distributed optimization, to solve nonconvex optimization problems in federated learning. Although scant research is available on the effectiveness of local SGD in reducing the number of communication rounds in homogeneous setting, its convergence and communication complexity in heterogeneous setting is mostly demonstrated empirically and lacks through theoretical understating. To bridge this gap, we demonstrate that by properly analyzing the effect of unbiased gradients and sampling schema in federated setting, under mild assumptions, the implicit variance reduction feature of local distributed methods generalize to heterogeneous data shards and exhibits the best known convergence rates of homogeneous setting both in general nonconvex and under {\pl}~ condition (generalization of strong-convexity). Our theoretical results complement the recent empirical studies that demonstrate the applicability of local GD/SGD to federated learning. We also specialize the proposed local method for networked distributed optimization. To the best of our knowledge, the obtained convergence rates are the sharpest known to date on the convergence of local decant methods with periodic averaging for solving nonconvex federated optimization in both centralized and networked distributed optimization.

We address the problem of continual learning in multi-task Gaussian process (GP) models for handling sequential input-output observations. Our approach extends the existing prior-posterior recursion of online Bayesian inference, i.e.\ past posterior discoveries become future prior beliefs, to the infinite functional space setting of GP. For a reason of scalability, we introduce variational inference together with an sparse approximation based on inducing inputs. As a consequence, we obtain tractable continual lower-bounds where two novel Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergences intervene in a natural way. The key technical property of our method is the recursive reconstruction of conditional GP priors conditioned on the variational parameters learned so far. To achieve this goal, we introduce a novel factorization of past variational distributions, where the predictive GP equation propagates the posterior uncertainty forward. We then demonstrate that it is possible to derive GP models over many types of sequential observations, either discrete or continuous and amenable to stochastic optimization. The continual inference approach is also applicable to scenarios where potential multi-channel or heterogeneous observations might appear. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the method is fully scalable, shows a reliable performance and is robust to uncertainty error propagation over a plenty of synthetic and real-world datasets.

We present a new feature extraction method for complex and large datasets, based on the concept of transport operators on graphs. The proposed approach generalizes and extends the many existing data representation methodologies built upon diffusion processes, to a new domain where dynamical systems play a key role. The main advantage of this approach comes from the ability to exploit different relationships than those arising in the context of e.g., Graph Laplacians. Fundamental properties of the transport operators are proved. We demonstrate the flexibility of the method by introducing several diverse examples of transformations. We close the paper with a series of computational experiments and applications to the problem of classification of hyperspectral satellite imagery, to illustrate the practical implications of our algorithm and its ability to quantify new aspects of relationships within complicated datasets.

Most current clustering based anomaly detection methods use scoring schema and thresholds to classify anomalies. These methods are often tailored to target specific data sets with "known" number of clusters. The paper provides a streaming clustering and anomaly detection algorithm that does not require strict arbitrary thresholds on the anomaly scores or knowledge of the number of clusters while performing probabilistic anomaly detection and clustering simultaneously. This ensures that the cluster formation is not impacted by the presence of anomalous data, thereby leading to more reliable definition of "normal vs abnormal" behavior. The motivations behind developing the INCAD model and the path that leads to the streaming model is discussed.

--Spectral Clustering is a popular technique to split data points into groups, especially for complex datasets. The algorithms in the Spectral Clustering family typically consist of multiple separate stages (such as similarity matrix construction, low-dimensional embedding, and K-Means clustering as post-processing), which may lead to sub-optimal results because of the possible mismatch between different stages. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end single-stage learning method to clustering called Regularized Nonnegative Spectral Embedding (RNSE) which extends Spectral Clustering with the adaptive learning of similarity matrix and meanwhile utilizes nonnegative constraints to facilitate one-step clustering (directly from data points to clustering labels). Two well-founded methods, successive alternating projection and strategic multiplicative update, are employed to work out the quite challenging optimization problems in RNSE. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate RNSE's superior clustering performance to some state-of-the-art competitors. I NTRODUCTION Clustering is an important unsupervised learning task which aims to group a set of data objects into clusters in such a way that objects in the same cluster are more similar to each other than those in different clusters. For complex datasets, Spectral Clustering [1] and its many variants [2]- [4] are particularly popular due to their ability of discovering highly non-convex clusters.

Constructing gene regulatory networks is a critical step in revealing disease mechanisms from transcriptomic data. In this work, we present NO-BEARS, a novel algorithm for estimating gene regulatory networks. The NO-BEARS algorithm is built on the basis of the NOTEARS algorithm with two improvements. First, we propose a new constraint and its fast approximation to reduce the computational cost of the NO-TEARS algorithm. Next, we introduce a polynomial regression loss to handle non-linearity in gene expressions. Our implementation utilizes modern GPU computation that can decrease the time of hours-long CPU computation to seconds. Using synthetic data, we demonstrate improved performance, both in processing time and accuracy, on inferring gene regulatory networks from gene expression data.