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Research on cluster analysis for categorical data continues to develop, with new clustering algorithms being proposed. However, in this context, the determination of the number of clusters is rarely addressed. In this paper, we propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-29 Cláudia Silvestre , Margarida G. M. S. Cardoso , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

In semi-supervised learning, information from unlabeled examples is used to improve the model learned from labeled examples. In some learning problems, partial label information can be inferred from otherwise unlabeled examples and used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Colin B. Hansen , Vishwesh Nath , Diego A. Mesa , Yuankai Huo , Bennett A. Landman , Thomas A. Lasko

Few-shot learning has been extensively explored to address problems where the amount of labeled samples is very limited for some classes. In the semi-supervised few-shot learning setting, substantial quantities of unlabeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Souvik Maji , Rhythm Baghel , Pratik Mazumder

Semi-supervised learning acts as an effective way to leverage massive unlabeled data. In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy, termed as Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning (SsCL), which combines the well-known contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yuhang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Robert. C. Qiu , Jie Li , Haohang Xu , Qi Tian

In semi-supervised domain adaptation, a few labeled samples per class in the target domain guide features of the remaining target samples to aggregate around them. However, the trained model cannot produce a highly discriminative feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jichang Li , Guanbin Li , Yemin Shi , Yizhou Yu

Mixture model-based frameworks are very popular for statistical inference in clustering. While convenient for producing probabilistic estimates of cluster assignments and uncertainty, they are prone to misspecification, which can lead to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Yu Zheng , Leo L. Duan , Arkaprava Roy

Graph clustering is crucial for unraveling intricate data structures, yet it presents significant challenges due to its unsupervised nature. Recently, goal-directed clustering techniques have yielded impressive results, with contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Enhao Cheng , Shoujia Zhang , Jianhua Yin , Li Jin , Liqiang Nie

In this paper, we introduce a Fast and Scalable Semi-supervised Multi-view Subspace Clustering (FSSMSC) method, a novel solution to the high computational complexity commonly found in existing approaches. FSSMSC features linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Huaming Ling , Chenglong Bao , Jiebo Song , Zuoqiang Shi

In the framework of Bayesian model-based clustering based on a finite mixture of Gaussian distributions, we present a joint approach to estimate the number of mixture components and identify cluster-relevant variables simultaneously as well…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-23 Gertraud Malsiner-Walli , Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter , Bettina Grün

This paper describes the system proposed for the SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection. We focused our approach on the detection problem. Given the semantics of words captured by temporal word embeddings in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Pierluigi Cassotti , Annalina Caputo , Marco Polignano , Pierpaolo Basile

While large language-image pre-trained models like CLIP offer powerful generic features for image clustering, existing methods typically freeze the encoder. This creates a fundamental mismatch between the model's task-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zihan Li , Wei Sun , Jing Hu , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Liqiang Nie

Existing clustering algorithms such as K-means often need to preset parameters such as the number of categories K, and such parameters may lead to the failure to output objective and consistent clustering results. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Shaodong Deng , Long Sheng , Jiayi Nie , Fuyi Deng

A computational theory for clustering and a semi-supervised clustering algorithm is presented. Clustering is defined to be the obtainment of groupings of data such that each group contains no anomalies with respect to a chosen grouping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nassir Mohammad

Ensemble clustering is a fundamental problem in the machine learning field, combining multiple base clusterings into a better clustering result. However, most of the existing methods are unsuitable for large-scale ensemble clustering tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hongmin Li , Xiucai Ye , Akira Imakura , Tetsuya Sakurai

Deep regression is an important problem with numerous applications. These range from computer vision tasks such as age estimation from photographs, to medical tasks such as ejection fraction estimation from echocardiograms for disease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Weihang Dai , Xiaomeng Li , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Due to the high cost of data annotation in supervised learning for person re-identification (Re-ID) methods, unsupervised learning becomes more attractive in the real world. The Bottom-up Clustering (BUC) approach based on hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Kaiwei Zeng

This article addresses the problem of classification method based on both labeled and unlabeled data, where we assume that a density function for labeled data is different from that for unlabeled data. We propose a semi-supervised logistic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-20 Shuichi Kawano

Supervised classification can be effective for prediction but sometimes weak on interpretability or explainability (XAI). Clustering, on the other hand, tends to isolate categories or profiles that can be meaningful but there is no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Vincent Lemaire , Oumaima Alaoui Ismaili , Antoine Cornuéjols , Dominique Gay

Recent developed deep unsupervised methods allow us to jointly learn representation and cluster unlabelled data. These deep clustering methods mainly focus on the correlation among samples, e.g., selecting high precision pairs to gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jianlong Wu , Keyu Long , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Cheng Li , Zhouchen Lin , Hongbin Zha

Self-supervised learning models have been shown to learn rich visual representations without requiring human annotations. However, in many real-world scenarios, labels are partially available, motivating a recent line of work on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Enrico Fini , Pietro Astolfi , Karteek Alahari , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Julien Mairal , Moin Nabi , Elisa Ricci