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Classical clustering methods do not provide users with direct control of the clustering results, and the clustering results may not be consistent with the relevant criterion that a user has in mind. In this work, we present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Sehyun Kwon , Jaeseung Park , Minkyu Kim , Jaewoong Cho , Ernest K. Ryu , Kangwook Lee

Traditional clustering methods aim to group unlabeled data points based on their similarity to each other. However, clustering, in the absence of additional information, is an ill-posed problem as there may be many different, yet equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bingchen Zhao , Oisin Mac Aodha

We address the problem of federated learning (FL) where users are distributed and partitioned into clusters. This setup captures settings where different groups of users have their own objectives (learning tasks) but by aggregating their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Avishek Ghosh , Jichan Chung , Dong Yin , Kannan Ramchandran

Incomplete multi-view spectral clustering generalizes spectral clustering to multi-view data and simultaneously realizes the partition of multi-view data with missing views. For this category of method, K-means algorithm needs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jun Yin , Runcheng Cai , Shiliang Sun

Image clustering is an important but challenging task in machine learning. As in most image processing areas, the latest improvements came from models based on the deep learning approach. However, classical deep learning methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Thiago V. M. Souza , Cleber Zanchettin

We study in this paper the problem of jointly clustering and learning representations. As several previous studies have shown, learning representations that are both faithful to the data to be clustered and adapted to the clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Maziar Moradi Fard , Thibaut Thonet , Eric Gaussier

Multimodal image-to-image translation (I2IT) aims to learn a conditional distribution that explores multiple possible images in the target domain given an input image in the source domain. Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Zhiwen Zuo , Lei Zhao , Zhizhong Wang , Haibo Chen , Ailin Li , Qijiang Xu , Wei Xing , Dongming Lu

Image set classification (ISC), which can be viewed as a task of comparing similarities between sets consisting of unordered heterogeneous images with variable quantities and qualities, has attracted growing research attention in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xizhan Gao , Wei Hu

Semi-supervised clustering aims to introduce prior knowledge in the decision process of a clustering algorithm. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised clustering algorithm based on the information-maximization principle. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Daniele Calandriello , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Subspace clustering assumes that the data is sepa-rable into separate subspaces. Such a simple as-sumption, does not always hold. We assume that, even if the raw data is not separable into subspac-es, one can learn a representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Jyoti Maggu , Angshul Majumdar , Emilie Chouzenoux

The analysis of data streams has received considerable attention over the past few decades due to sensors, social media, etc. It aims to recognize patterns in an unordered, infinite, and evolving stream of observations. Clustering this type…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Mohammed Oualid Attaoui , Hanene Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah , Nabil Keskes

Subspace clustering aims to group data points that lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces and finds wide application in computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, and recommendation systems. However, most existing methods assume fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Huanran Li , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

We propose a Deep Variational Clustering (DVC) framework for unsupervised representation learning and clustering of large-scale medical images. DVC simultaneously learns the multivariate Gaussian posterior through the probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Farzin Soleymani , Mohammad Eslami , Tobias Elze , Bernd Bischl , Mina Rezaei

Subset selection is an important component in evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) algorithms. Clustering, as a classic method to group similar data points together, has been used for subset selection in some fields. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Weiyu Chen , Hisao Ishibuchi , Ke Shang

Distance metric learning algorithms aim to appropriately measure similarities and distances between data points. In the context of clustering, metric learning is typically applied with the assist of side-information provided by experts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Rodrigo Randel , Daniel Aloise , Alain Hertz

Learning disentangled representations requires either supervision or the introduction of specific model designs and learning constraints as biases. InfoGAN is a popular disentanglement framework that learns unsupervised disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xiao Liu , Spyridon Thermos , Pedro Sanchez , Alison Q. O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Recently, a number of competitive methods have tackled unsupervised representation learning by maximising the mutual information between the representations produced from augmentations. The resulting representations are then invariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Luke Nicholas Darlow , Amos Storkey

In an age of increasingly large data sets, investigators in many different disciplines have turned to clustering as a tool for data analysis and exploration. Existing clustering methods, however, typically depend on several nontrivial…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 Noam Slonim , Gurinder Singh Atwal , Gasper Tkacik , William Bialek

In many modern applications, there is interest in analyzing enormous data sets that cannot be easily moved across computers or loaded into memory on a single computer. In such settings, it is very common to be interested in clustering.…

Computation · Statistics 2020-05-15 Hanyu Song , Yingjian Wang , David B. Dunson

Learning a better representation with neural networks is a challenging problem, which was tackled extensively from different prospectives in the past few years. In this work, we focus on learning a representation that could be used for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Alexey Romanov , Anna Rumshisky