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Power K-Means

Data Skeptic

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Are There Limits to Inference?

If the data aren't separable in a particular way, then there will be limits to how well you can cluster. No matter how good your optimization problem is, no matter if you are able to show p equals n p, there's still an amount of error that's intrinsic to the statistical noise or the sort of data generating mechanism. So there are absolutely some fundamental limits to inference as well.

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