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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

Fine-grained clustering is a practical yet challenging task, whose essence lies in capturing the subtle differences between instances of different classes. Such subtle differences can be easily disrupted by data augmentation or be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Xi Peng , Xiting Liu , Yunfan Li

Deep clustering (DC) is often quoted to have a key advantage over $k$-means clustering. Yet, this advantage is often demonstrated using image datasets only, and it is unclear whether it addresses the fundamental limitations of $k$-means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Kai Ming Ting , Wei-Jie Xu , Hang Zhang

In recent years, the growing need to leverage sensitive data across institutions has led to increased attention on federated learning (FL), a decentralized machine learning paradigm that enables model training without sharing raw data.…

In data containing heterogeneous subpopulations, classification performance benefits from incorporating the knowledge of cluster structure in the classifier. Previous methods for such combined clustering and classification either 1) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Shivin Srivastava , Siddharth Bhatia , Lingxiao Huang , Lim Jun Heng , Kenji Kawaguchi , Vaibhav Rajan

Most of previous deepfake detection researches bent their efforts to describe and discriminate artifacts in human perceptible ways, which leave a bias in the learned networks of ignoring some critical invariance features intra-class and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ruiqi Zha , Zhichao Lian , Qianmu Li , Siqi Gu

Group imbalance, resulting from inadequate or unrepresentative data collection methods, is a primary cause of representation bias in datasets. Representation bias can exist with respect to different groups of one or more protected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Siamak Ghodsi , Eirini Ntoutsi

In this paper, we propose a recurrent framework for Joint Unsupervised LEarning (JULE) of deep representations and image clusters. In our framework, successive operations in a clustering algorithm are expressed as steps in a recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Jianwei Yang , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

We introduce Consistent Assignment for Representation Learning (CARL), an unsupervised learning method to learn visual representations by combining ideas from self-supervised contrastive learning and deep clustering. By viewing contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Thalles Silva , Adín Ramírez Rivera

In the face of complex natural images, existing deep clustering algorithms fall significantly short in terms of clustering accuracy when compared to supervised classification methods, making them less practical. This paper introduces an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Qiuyu Zhu , Liheng Hu , Sijin Wang

Recent advances in reinforcement-learning research have demonstrated impressive results in building algorithms that can out-perform humans in complex tasks. Nevertheless, creating reinforcement-learning systems that can build abstractions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Lucas Lehnert , Michael J. Frank , Michael L. Littman

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

Spectral clustering is a leading and popular technique in unsupervised data analysis. Two of its major limitations are scalability and generalization of the spectral embedding (i.e., out-of-sample-extension). In this paper we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-06 Uri Shaham , Kelly Stanton , Henry Li , Boaz Nadler , Ronen Basri , Yuval Kluger

Clustering is a well-studied unsupervised learning task that aims to partition data points into a number of clusters. In many applications, these clusters correspond to real-world constructs (e.g., electoral districts, playlists, TV…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

This paper addresses the task of unsupervised learning of representations for action recognition in videos. Previous works proposed to utilize future prediction, or other domain-specific objectives to train a network, but achieved only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert , Cordelia Schmid

Disentangled distributed representations of data are desirable for machine learning, since they are more expressive and can generalize from fewer examples. However, for complex data, the distributed representations of multiple objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Klaus Greff , Rupesh Kumar Srivastava , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Clustering is an unsupervised learning task that aims to partition data into a set of clusters. In many applications, these clusters correspond to real-world constructs (e.g. electoral districts) whose benefit can only be attained by groups…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

Subspace clustering is a growing field of unsupervised learning that has gained much popularity in the computer vision community. Applications can be found in areas such as motion segmentation and face clustering. It assumes that data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 Hankui Peng , Nicos G. Pavlidis

Clustering using deep autoencoders has been thoroughly investigated in recent years. Current approaches rely on simultaneously learning embedded features and clustering the data points in the latent space. Although numerous deep clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Nairouz Mrabah , Mohamed Bouguessa , Riadh Ksantini

Clustering aims to group unlabeled objects based on similarity inherent among them into clusters. It is important for many tasks such as anomaly detection, database sharding, record linkage, and others. Some clustering methods are taken as…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Binbin Gu , Saeed Kargar , Faisal Nawab