English
Related papers

Related papers: Semi-Supervised Information-Maximization Clusterin…

200 papers

Real-world networks often come with side information that can help to improve the performance of network analysis tasks such as clustering. Despite a large number of empirical and theoretical studies conducted on network clustering methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-29 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi , Christophe Biernacki

Semi-supervised clustering techniques have emerged as valuable tools for leveraging prior information in the form of constraints to improve the quality of clustering outcomes. Despite the proliferation of such methods, the ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guangjie Zeng , Hao Peng , Angsheng Li , Zhiwei Liu , Runze Yang , Chunyang Liu , Lifang He

A common assumption in semi-supervised learning is that the labeled, unlabeled, and test data are drawn from the same distribution. However, this assumption is not satisfied in many applications. In many scenarios, the data is collected…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Gholamali Aminian , Mahed Abroshan , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Laura Toni , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

The development of semi-supervised learning (SSL) has in recent years largely focused on the development of new consistency regularization or entropy minimization approaches, often resulting in models with complex training strategies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Durgesh Singh , Ahcene Boubekki , Robert Jenssen , Michael C. Kampffmeyer

Clustering using neural networks has recently demonstrated promising performance in machine learning and computer vision applications. However, the performance of current approaches is limited either by unsupervised learning or their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Ankita Shukla , Gullal Singh Cheema , Saket Anand

Semi-supervised clustering is an very important topic in machine learning and computer vision. The key challenge of this problem is how to learn a metric, such that the instances sharing the same label are more likely close to each other on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Gang Chen

When approaching a clustering problem, choosing the right clustering algorithm and parameters is essential, as each clustering algorithm is proficient at finding clusters of a particular nature. Due to the unsupervised nature of clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Elizabeth Ditton , Anne Swinbourne , Trina Myers , Mitchell Scovell

We propose and analyze a method for semi-supervised learning from partially-labeled network-structured data. Our approach is based on a graph signal recovery interpretation under a clustering hypothesis that labels of data points belonging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Alexander Jung , Alfred O. Hero , Alexandru Mara , Saeed Jahromi , Ayelet Heimowitz , Yonina C. Eldar

Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning, but most existing methods heavily rely on hyperparameters such as the number of clusters or other sensitive settings, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Lijun Zhang , Suyuan Liu , Siwei Wang , Shengju Yu , Xueling Zhu , Miaomiao Li , Xinwang Liu

The scarcity of labeled data often impedes the application of deep learning to the segmentation of medical images. Semi-supervised learning seeks to overcome this limitation by exploiting unlabeled examples in the learning process. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Jizong Peng , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers

This paper presents a novel clustering concept that is based on jointly learned nonlinear transforms (NTs) with priors on the information loss and the discrimination. We introduce a clustering principle that is based on evaluation of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Dimche Kostadinov , Behrooz Razeghi , Taras Holotyak , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Unlike traditional unsupervised clustering, semi-supervised clustering allows users to provide meaningful structure to the data, which helps the clustering algorithm to match the user's intent. Existing approaches to semi-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Vijay Viswanathan , Kiril Gashteovski , Carolin Lawrence , Tongshuang Wu , Graham Neubig

Given the potential difficulties in obtaining large quantities of labelled data, many works have explored the use of deep semi-supervised learning, which uses both labelled and unlabelled data to train a neural network architecture. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Philip Sellars , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Carola Bibiane Schönlieb

Unsupervised machine learning is one of the main techniques employed in artificial intelligence. We introduce an algorithm for quantum-assisted unsupervised data clustering using the self-organizing feature map, a type of artificial neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Ilia D. Lazarev , Marek Narozniak , Tim Byrnes , Alexey N. Pyrkov

We propose a new clustering approach, called optimality-based clustering, that clusters data points based on their latent decision-making preferences. We assume that each data point is a decision generated by a decision-maker who…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Zahed Shahmoradi , Taewoo Lee

We introduce a general semiparametric clusterwise elliptical distribution to assess how latent cluster structure shapes continuous outcomes. Using a subjectwise representation, we first estimate cluster-specific mean vectors and a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-10 Jen-Chieh Teng , Sheng-Hsin Fan , Chin-Tsang Chiang , Ming-Yueh Huang , Alvin Lim

New intent discovery is of great value to natural language processing, allowing for a better understanding of user needs and providing friendly services. However, most existing methods struggle to capture the complicated semantics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Xin Wang , Fei Long , Kai Gao

In this article, we continue our analysis for a novel recursive modification to the Max $k$-Cut algorithm using semidefinite programming as its basis, offering an improved performance in vectorized data clustering tasks. Using a dimension…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-16 An Ly , Raj Sawhney , Marina Chugunova

Clustering attempts to partition data instances into several distinctive groups, while the similarities among data belonging to the common partition can be principally reserved. Furthermore, incomplete data frequently occurs in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Miao Cheng , Xinge You

In this paper, we propose an extension for semi-supervised Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) problems of MDEClust, a memetic framework based on the Differential Evolution paradigm for unsupervised clustering. In semi-supervised MSSC,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Pierluigi Mansueto , Fabio Schoen