Semi-Supervised Fuzzy C-Means for Regression

We propose a method to perform regression on partially labeled data, which is based on SSFCM (Semi-Supervised Fuzzy C-Means), an algorithm for semi-supervised classification based on fuzzy clustering. The proposed method, called SSFCM-R, precedes the application of SSFCM with a relabeling module based on target discretization. After the application of SSFCM, regression is carried out according to one out of two possible schemes: (i) the output corresponds to the label of the closest cluster; (ii) the output is a linear combination of the cluster labels weighted by the membership degree of the input. Some experiments on synthetic data are reported to compare both approaches.