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**object**

``agglomerative_clusterer``
===========================

Agglomerative clusterer for continuous datasets. Learns from a dataset object implementing the ``clustering_dataset_protocol`` protocol and returns a clusterer term that can be used for assigning new instances to clusters and exported as predicate clauses.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(agglomerative_clusterer(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:0:0
| **Date:** 2026-05-07

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static, context_switching_calls``


| **Imports:**
|    ``public`` :ref:`clusterer_common <clusterer_common/0>`
| **Uses:**
|    :ref:`avltree <avltree/0>`
|    :ref:`binary_heap_min <binary_heap_min/0>`
|    :ref:`format <format/0>`
|    :ref:`list <list/0>`
|    :ref:`numberlist <numberlist/0>`
|    :ref:`pairs <pairs/0>`
|    :ref:`type <type/0>`

| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|     :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::check_clusterer/1`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::check_option/1`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::check_options/1`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::cluster/3`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::clusterer_options/2`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::default_option/1`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::default_options/1`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::diagnostic/2`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::diagnostics/2`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::export_to_clauses/4`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::export_to_file/4`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::learn/2`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::learn/3`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::option/2`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::option/3`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::print_clusterer/1`  :ref:`clusterer_protocol/0::valid_clusterer/1`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::valid_option/1`  :ref:`options_protocol/0::valid_options/1`  

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Public predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Protected predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Private predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Operators
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(none)

.. seealso::

   :ref:`clusterer_protocol <clusterer_protocol/0>`, :ref:`clustering_dataset_protocol <clustering_dataset_protocol/0>`, :ref:`kcenters_clusterer <kcenters_clusterer/0>`, :ref:`kmeans_clusterer <kmeans_clusterer/0>`, :ref:`kmedoids_clusterer <kmedoids_clusterer/0>`

