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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions python/cuml/cuml/cluster/kmeans.pyx
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Expand Up @@ -322,11 +322,12 @@ class KMeans(Base,
random_state : int or None (default = None)
If you want results to be the same when you restart Python, select a
state.
init : {'scalable-k-means++', 'k-means||', 'random'} or an \
init : {'scalable-k-means++', 'k-means||', 'k-means++', 'random'} or an \
ndarray (default = 'scalable-k-means++')

- ``'scalable-k-means++'`` or ``'k-means||'``: Uses fast and stable
scalable kmeans++ initialization.
scalable kmeans++ initialization. k-means++ is the constrained case of k-means||
with `oversampling_factor=0`
- ``'random'``: Choose `n_cluster` observations (rows) at random
from data for the initial centroids.
- If an ndarray is passed, it should be of
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