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Affinity propagation is initialized by setting the “availabilities” to zero. What happens if they are set to random values and the algorithm is run multiple times using different random values?

April 26, 2017affinity availabilities happens initialized Propagation setting values Zero

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Affinity propagation is initialized by setting the “availabilities” to zero. What happens if they are set to random values and the algorithm is run multiple times using different random values?

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Neat idea. In fact, slightly better solutions can be obtained using this method, so if you really, really, really want to fine-tune the net similarity, you could try this method.