Section: New Software and Platforms

SketchMLBox

Keyword: Clustering

Scientific Description

The SketchMLbox is a Matlab toolbox for fitting mixture models to large collections of training vectors using sketching techniques. The collection is first compressed into a vector called sketch, then a mixture model (e.g. a Gaussian Mixture Model) is estimated from this sketch using greedy algorithms typical of sparse recovery. The size of the sketch does not depend on the number of elements in the collection, but rather on the complexity of the problem at hand [2,3]. Its computation can be massively parallelized and distributed over several units. It can also be maintained in an online setting at low cost. Mixtures of Diracs ("K-means") and Gaussian Mixture Models with diagonal covariance are currently available, the toolbox is structured so that new mixture models can be easily implemented.

Functional Description

Matlab toolbox for fitting mixture models to large collections of feature vectors using sketching techniques.

• Authors: Nicolas Keriven, Rémi Gribonval and Nicolas Tremblay

• Partner: Université de Rennes 1

• Contact: Rémi Gribonval

• URL: http://sketchml.gforge.inria.fr