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Generative modeling and clustering are conventionally distinct tasks in machine learning. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have been widely explored for their ability to integrate both, providing a framework for generative clustering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jorge da Silva Gonçalves , Laura Manduchi , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Julia E. Vogt

The clustering of unlabeled raw images is a daunting task, which has recently been approached with some success by deep learning methods. Here we propose an unsupervised clustering framework, which learns a deep neural network in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Guy Shiran , Daphna Weinshall

With the recent popularity of graphical clustering methods, there has been an increased focus on the information between samples. We show how learning cluster structure using edge features naturally and simultaneously determines the most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-09 Matt Barnes , Artur Dubrawski

A natural way to characterize the cluster structure of a dataset is by finding regions containing a high density of data. This can be done in a nonparametric way with a kernel density estimate, whose modes and hence clusters can be found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

We propose a novel end-to-end neural network architecture that, once trained, directly outputs a probabilistic clustering of a batch of input examples in one pass. It estimates a distribution over the number of clusters $k$, and for each $1…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Benjamin Bruno Meier , Ismail Elezi , Mohammadreza Amirian , Oliver Durr , Thilo Stadelmann

Deep clustering which adopts deep neural networks to obtain optimal representations for clustering has been widely studied recently. In this paper, we propose a novel deep image clustering framework to learn a category-style latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Junjie Zhao , Donghuan Lu , Kai Ma , Yu Zhang , Yefeng Zheng

Distributed processing over networks relies on in-network processing and cooperation among neighboring agents. Cooperation is beneficial when agents share a common objective. However, in many applications agents may belong to different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Xiaochuan Zhao , Ali H. Sayed

We present the clustering learning technique applied to multi-layer feedforward deep neural networks. We show that this unsupervised learning technique can compute network filters with only a few minutes and a much reduced set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Eugenio Culurciello , Jordan Bates , Aysegul Dundar , Jose Carrasco , Clement Farabet

Clustering multi-view data has been a fundamental research topic in the computer vision community. It has been shown that a better accuracy can be achieved by integrating information of all the views than just using one view individually.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Ming Yin , Weitian Huang , Junbin Gao

Recent research works on distributed adaptive networks have intensively studied the case where the nodes estimate a common parameter vector collaboratively. However, there are many applications that are multitask-oriented in the sense that…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-04 Jie Chen , Cédric Richard , Ali Sayed

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

Clustering is an important part of many modern data analysis pipelines, including network analysis and data retrieval. There are many different clustering algorithms developed by various communities, and it is often not clear which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Maria-Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Manuel Lang

Clustering of time series is a well-studied problem, with applications ranging from quantitative, personalized models of metabolism obtained from metabolite concentrations to state discrimination in quantum information theory. We consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Mengjia Niu , Xiaoyu He , Petr Ryšavý , Quan Zhou , Jakub Marecek

Clustering is a popular machine learning technique for data mining that can process and analyze datasets to automatically reveal sample distribution patterns. Since the ubiquitous categorical data naturally lack a well-defined metric space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yiqun Zhang , Mingjie Zhao , Hong Jia , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung

Biclustering algorithms partition data and covariates simultaneously, providing new insights in several domains, such as analyzing gene expression to discover new biological functions. This paper develops a new model-free biclustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-09 Marcos Matabuena , J. C Vidal , Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla , Dino Sejdinovic

In this paper we first analyzed the inductive bias underlying the data scattered across complex free energy landscapes (FEL), and exploited it to train deep neural networks which yield reduced and clustered representation for the FEL. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-19 Jun Zhang , Yao-Kun Lei , Xing Che , Zhen Zhang , Yi Isaac Yang , Yi Qin Gao

To fully understand the 3D context of a single image, a visual system must be able to segment both the visible and occluded regions of objects, while discerning their occlusion order. Ideally, the system should be able to handle any object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jiayang Ao , Qiuhong Ke , Krista A. Ehinger

Clustering is one of the most common unsupervised learning tasks in machine learning and data mining. Clustering algorithms have been used in a plethora of applications across several scientific fields. However, there has been limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Quang N. Tran , Ba-Ngu Vo , Dinh Phung , Ba-Tuong Vo

Clustering is a widely used technique with a long and rich history in a variety of areas. However, most existing algorithms do not scale well to large datasets, or are missing theoretical guarantees of convergence. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Yijia Zhou , Kyle A. Gallivan , Adrian Barbu