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This paper proposes to perform online clustering by conducting twin contrastive learning (TCL) at the instance and cluster level. Specifically, we find that when the data is projected into a feature space with a dimensionality of the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yunfan Li , Mouxing Yang , Dezhong Peng , Taihao Li , Jiantao Huang , Xi Peng

Clustering is the task of gathering similar data samples into clusters without using any predefined labels. It has been widely studied in machine learning literature, and recent advancements in deep learning have revived interest in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

Recently, some contrastive learning methods have been proposed to simultaneously learn representations and clustering assignments, achieving significant improvements. However, these methods do not take the category information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Huasong Zhong , Jianlong Wu , Chong Chen , Jianqiang Huang , Minghua Deng , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin , Xian-Sheng Hua

Unsupervised disentangled representation learning is a long-standing problem in computer vision. This work proposes a novel framework for performing image clustering from deep embeddings by combining instance-level contrastive learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ramakrishnan Sundareswaran , Jansel Herrera-Gerena , John Just , Ali Jannesari

A good clustering algorithm can discover natural groupings in data. These groupings, if used wisely, provide a form of weak supervision for learning representations. In this work, we present Clustering-based Contrastive Learning (CCL), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Vivek Sharma , Makarand Tapaswi , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Contrastive learning based on instance discrimination trains model to discriminate different transformations of the anchor sample from other samples, which does not consider the semantic similarity among samples. This paper proposes a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Hao Li , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hongkai Xiong

Contrastive learning has been frequently investigated to learn effective representations for text clustering tasks. While existing contrastive learning-based text clustering methods only focus on modeling instance-wise semantic similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Qian Yong , Chen Chen , Xiabing Zhou

Federated clustering, an essential extension of centralized clustering for federated scenarios, enables multiple data-holding clients to collaboratively group data while keeping their data locally. In centralized scenarios, clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jing Liu , Jie Yan , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Clustering continues to be a significant and challenging task. Recent studies have demonstrated impressive results by applying clustering to feature representations acquired through self-supervised learning, particularly on small datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Fei Ding , Dan Zhang , Yin Yang , Venkat Krovi , Feng Luo

Contrastive learning (CL) methods effectively learn data representations in a self-supervision manner, where the encoder contrasts each positive sample over multiple negative samples via a one-vs-many softmax cross-entropy loss. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Huangjie Zheng , Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Hongxia Yang , Chunyuan Li , Ya Zhang , Hao Zhang , Ivor Tsang , Jingren Zhou , Mingyuan Zhou

We introduce Cluster Contrast (CueCo), a novel approach to unsupervised visual representation learning that effectively combines the strengths of contrastive learning and clustering methods. Inspired by recent advancements, CueCo is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

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

Deep clustering successfully provides more effective features than conventional ones and thus becomes an important technique in current unsupervised learning. However, most deep clustering methods ignore the vital positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Zhiyuan Dang , Cheng Deng , Xu Yang , Heng Huang

We propose Few-Example Clustering (FEC), a novel algorithm that performs contrastive learning to cluster few examples. Our method is composed of the following three steps: (1) generation of candidate cluster assignments, (2) contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Minguk Jang , Sae-Young Chung

We propose a novel framework for image clustering that incorporates joint representation learning and clustering. Our method consists of two heads that share the same backbone network - a "representation learning" head and a "clustering"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

Recently, representation learning with contrastive learning algorithms has been successfully applied to challenging unlabeled datasets. However, these methods are unable to distinguish important features from unimportant ones under simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Toshiyuki Oshima , Kentaro Takagi , Kouta Nakata

Contrastive learning has demonstrated strong performance in attributed hypergraph clustering. Typically, existing methods based on contrastive learning first learn node embeddings and then apply clustering algorithms, such as k-means, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Li Ni , Shuaikang Zeng , Lin Mu , Longlong Lin

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tasks in machine learning. Recently, deep clustering has become a major trend in clustering techniques. Representation learning often plays an important role in the effectiveness of deep clustering,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yaling Tao , Kentaro Takagi , Kouta Nakata

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Contrastive learning is widely used in clustering tasks due to its discriminative representation. However, the conflict problem between classes is difficult to solve effectively. Existing methods try to solve this problem through prototype…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shihao Dong , Xiaotong Zhou , Yuhui Zheng , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu
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