A teaching–Learning-based particle swarm optimization for data clustering

Abstract

The present study proposes TLBO-PSO an integrated Teacher–Learning-Based Optimization (TLBO) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for optimum data clustering. TLBO-PSO algorithm searches through arbitrary datasets for appropriate cluster centroid and tries to find the global optima efficiently. The proposed TLBO-PSO is analyzed on a set of six benchmark datasets available at UCI machine learning repository. Experimental result shows that the proposed algorithm performs better than the other state-of-the-art clustering algorithms.