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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…

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Image clustering is one of the most important computer vision applications, which has been extensively studied in literature. However, current clustering methods mostly suffer from lack of efficiency and scalability when dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Kamran Ghasedi Dizaji , Amirhossein Herandi , Cheng Deng , Weidong Cai , Heng Huang

Traditional image clustering methods take a two-step approach, feature learning and clustering, sequentially. However, recent research results demonstrated that combining the separated phases in a unified framework and training them jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Fengfu Li , Hong Qiao , Bo Zhang , Xuanyang Xi

This study proposes an automated data mining framework based on autoencoders and experimentally verifies its effectiveness in feature extraction and data dimensionality reduction. Through the encoding-decoding structure, the autoencoder can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yaxin Liang , Xinshi Li , Xin Huang , Ziqi Zhang , Yue Yao

Clustering algorithms have significantly improved along with Deep Neural Networks which provide effective representation of data. Existing methods are built upon deep autoencoder and self-training process that leverages the distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Xin Ma , Won Hwa Kim

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) methods, like Masked Autoencoders (MAE), efficiently learn a rich representation of the input. However, for adapting to downstream tasks, they require a sufficient amount of labeled data since their rich features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Johannes Lehner , Benedikt Alkin , Andreas Fürst , Elisabeth Rumetshofer , Lukas Miklautz , Sepp Hochreiter

Deep clustering - joint representation learning and latent space clustering - is a well studied problem especially in computer vision and text processing under the deep learning framework. While the representation learning is generally…

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Mixtures of Unigrams are one of the simplest and most efficient tools for clustering textual data, as they assume that documents related to the same topic have similar distributions of terms, naturally described by Multinomials. When the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-10 Cinzia Viroli , Laura Anderlucci

Autoencoders are powerful machine learning models used to compress information from multiple data sources. However, autoencoders, like all artificial neural networks, are often unidentifiable and uninterpretable. This research focuses on…

Embedding techniques have become essential components of large databases in the deep learning era. By encoding discrete entities, such as words, items, or graph nodes, into continuous vector spaces, embeddings facilitate more efficient…

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Object counting is a foundational vision task with over a decade of dedicated research, yet state-of-the-art models still fail systematically in the mixed-object setting that dominates real-world applications such as industrial inspection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Corentin Dumery , Niki Amini-Naieni , Shervin Naini , Pascal Fua

While sparse coding-based clustering methods have shown to be successful, their bottlenecks in both efficiency and scalability limit the practical usage. In recent years, deep learning has been proved to be a highly effective, efficient and…

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The problem of learning a manifold structure on a dataset is framed in terms of a generative model, to which we use ideas behind autoencoders (namely adversarial/Wasserstein autoencoders) to fit deep neural networks. From a machine learning…

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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

Mixed data comprises both numeric and categorical features, and mixed datasets occur frequently in many domains, such as health, finance, and marketing. Clustering is often applied to mixed datasets to find structures and to group similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Amir Ahmad , Shehroz S. Khan

Analyzing and visualizing scientific ensemble datasets with high dimensionality and complexity poses significant challenges. Dimensionality reduction techniques and autoencoders are powerful tools for extracting features, but they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Hamid Gadirov , Lennard Manuel , Steffen Frey

Deep subspace clustering networks have attracted much attention in subspace clustering, in which an auto-encoder non-linearly maps the input data into a latent space, and a fully connected layer named self-expressiveness module is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhihao Peng , Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Qingfu Zhang

In clustering we normally output one cluster variable for each datapoint. However it is not necessarily the case that there is only one way to partition a given dataset into cluster components. For example, one could cluster objects by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Matthew Willetts , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

Recent strategies achieved ensembling "for free" by fitting concurrently diverse subnetworks inside a single base network. The main idea during training is that each subnetwork learns to classify only one of the multiple inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Alexandre Rame , Remy Sun , Matthieu Cord

Interpretable clustering algorithms aim to group similar data points while explaining the obtained groups to support knowledge discovery and pattern recognition tasks. While most approaches to interpretable clustering construct clusters…

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