arxivcs.DScs.DCcs.LG2026-07-02
Scalable and Distributed Silhouette Approximation
Ilie Sarpe, Federico Altieri, Andrea Pietracaprina, Geppino Pucci, Fabio Vandin
The silhouette is one of the most widely used measures to assess the quality of a $k$-clustering of a dataset of $n$ elements. Its evaluation requires no information beyond the clustering assignment. In addition, the silhouette is extremely easy to interpret, providing a score to…