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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

Recently, many unsupervised deep learning methods have been proposed to learn clustering with unlabelled data. By introducing data augmentation, most of the latest methods look into deep clustering from the perspective that the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Huasong Zhong , Chong Chen , Zhongming Jin , Xian-Sheng Hua

The pursuit of learning robust representations without human supervision is a longstanding challenge. The recent advancements in self-supervised contrastive learning approaches have demonstrated high performance across various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Contrastive learning is a significant paradigm in graph self-supervised learning. However, it requires negative samples to prevent model collapse and learn discriminative representations. These negative samples inevitably lead to heavy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yunhui Liu , Huaisong Zhang , Tieke He , Tao Zheng , Jianhua Zhao

Deep clustering methods improve the performance of clustering tasks by jointly optimizing deep representation learning and clustering. While numerous deep clustering algorithms have been proposed, most of them rely on artificially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhanwen Cheng , Feijiang Li , Jieting Wang , Yuhua Qian

This paper proposes a novel Deep Positive-Negative Prototype (DPNP) model that combines prototype-based learning (PbL) with discriminative methods to improve class compactness and separability in deep neural networks. While PbL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ramin Zarei-Sabzevar , Ahad Harati

Feature selection methods have an important role on the readability of data and the reduction of complexity of learning algorithms. In recent years, a variety of efforts are investigated on feature selection problems based on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

Recent deep clustering models have produced impressive clustering performance. However, a common issue with existing methods is the disparity between global and local feature structures. While local structures typically show strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hanyang Li , Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou

Despite significant advances in clustering methods in recent years, the outcome of clustering of a natural image dataset is still unsatisfactory due to two important drawbacks. Firstly, clustering of images needs a good feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dipanjan Das , Ratul Ghosh , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

The learning objective of vision-language approach of CLIP does not effectively account for the noisy many-to-many correspondences found in web-harvested image captioning datasets, which contributes to its compute and data inefficiency. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Alex Andonian , Shixing Chen , Raffay Hamid

Category-level object pose estimation aims to recover the rotation, translation and size of unseen instances within predefined categories. In this task, deep neural network-based methods have demonstrated remarkable performance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Xiao Lin , Yun Peng , Liuyi Wang , Xianyou Zhong , Minghao Zhu , Jingwei Yang , Yi Feng , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Annotating large-scale point clouds is highly time-consuming and often infeasible for many complex real-world tasks. Point cloud pre-training has therefore become a promising strategy for learning discriminative representations without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guofeng Mei , Xiaoshui Huang , Juan Liu , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu

Supervised classification can be effective for prediction but sometimes weak on interpretability or explainability (XAI). Clustering, on the other hand, tends to isolate categories or profiles that can be meaningful but there is no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Vincent Lemaire , Oumaima Alaoui Ismaili , Antoine Cornuéjols , Dominique Gay

Asymmetric appearance between positive pair effectively reduces the risk of representation degradation in contrastive learning. However, there are still a mass of appearance similarities between positive pair constructed by the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chengchao Shen , Jianzhong Chen , Shu Wang , Hulin Kuang , Jin Liu , Jianxin Wang

Pattern recognition applications often suffer from skewed data distributions between classes, which may vary during operations w.r.t. the design data. Two-class classification systems designed using skewed data tend to recognize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Roghayeh Soleymani , Eric Granger , Giorgio Fumera

Point clouds have attracted increasing attention. Significant progress has been made in methods for point cloud analysis, which often requires costly human annotation as supervision. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Bi'an Du , Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Xin Li

We present a principled and simplified design of the projector and loss function for non-contrastive self-supervised learning based on hyperdimensional computing. We theoretically demonstrate that this design introduces an inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Emanuele Sansone , Tim Lebailly , Tinne Tuytelaars

Unsupervised clustering aims at discovering the semantic categories of data according to some distance measured in the representation space. However, different categories often overlap with each other in the representation space at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dejiao Zhang , Feng Nan , Xiaokai Wei , Shangwen Li , Henghui Zhu , Kathleen McKeown , Ramesh Nallapati , Andrew Arnold , Bing Xiang

In this paper, we address Novel Class Discovery (NCD), the task of unveiling new classes in a set of unlabeled samples given a labeled dataset with known classes. We exploit the peculiarities of NCD to build a new framework, named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhun Zhong , Enrico Fini , Subhankar Roy , Zhiming Luo , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

Learning scientific document representations can be substantially improved through contrastive learning objectives, where the challenge lies in creating positive and negative training samples that encode the desired similarity semantics.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Malte Ostendorff , Nils Rethmeier , Isabelle Augenstein , Bela Gipp , Georg Rehm