Exclusive condition on item partition in fuzzy co-clustering based on K-L information regularization

FCCM based on K-L information regularization is an FCM-type co-clustering model, which is a fuzzy counterpart of the probabilistic Multinomial Mixture Models (MMMs). In MMMs and other FCM-type co-clustering models, whose goal is to simultaneously partition objects and items considering their mutual cooccurrence information, memberships of objects are forced to be exclusive in a similar way to FCM while item-memberships only represent the relative typicality in each cluster and are not forced to be exclusive. In this paper, a new co-clustering model is proposed by introducing the penalty for avoiding cluster overlapping in sequential fuzzy cluster extraction, which brings exclusive partition of items.