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Several unsupervised and self-supervised approaches have been developed in recent years to learn visual features from large-scale unlabeled datasets. Their main drawback however is that these methods are hardly able to recognize visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Alessandra Alfani , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning methodology where unlabeled elements/objects are grouped together aiming to the construction of well-established clusters that their elements are classified according to their similarity. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-20 Dimitrios Saligkaras , Vasileios E. Papageorgiou

Correlation clustering is a flexible framework for partitioning data based solely on pairwise similarity or dissimilarity information, without requiring the number of clusters as input. However, in many practical scenarios, these pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Linus Aronsson , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

We propose a new clustering approach, called optimality-based clustering, that clusters data points based on their latent decision-making preferences. We assume that each data point is a decision generated by a decision-maker who…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Zahed Shahmoradi , Taewoo Lee

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

Traditional clustering methods often perform clustering with low-level indiscriminative representations and ignore relationships between patterns, resulting in slight achievements in the era of deep learning. To handle this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Jianlong Chang , Yiwen Guo , Lingfeng Wang , Gaofeng Meng , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

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

This paper initiates the study of active learning for exact recovery of partitions exclusively through access to a same-cluster oracle in the presence of bounded adversarial error. We first highlight a novel connection between learning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Adela Frances DePavia , Olga Medrano Martín del Campo , Erasmo Tani

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

Several clustering frameworks with interactive (semi-supervised) queries have been studied in the past. Recently, clustering with same-cluster queries has become popular. An algorithm in this setting has access to an oracle with full…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Barna Saha , Sanjay Subramanian

This paper presents Orthogonal Subspace Clustering (OSC), an innovative method for high-dimensional data clustering. We first establish a theoretical theorem proving that high-dimensional data can be decomposed into orthogonal subspaces in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qing-Yuan Wen , Da-Qing Zhang

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables researchers to analyze gene expression at single-cell level. One important task in scRNA-seq data analysis is unsupervised clustering, which helps identify distinct cell types, laying down the…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-29 Weikang Jiang , Jinxian Wang , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Current clustering-based Open Relation Extraction (OpenRE) methods usually adopt a two-stage pipeline. The first stage simultaneously learns relation representations and assignments. The second stage manually labels several instances and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jun Zhao , Yongxin Zhang , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Zhongyu Wei , Minlong Peng , Mingming Sun

A promising direction in deep learning research consists in learning representations and simultaneously discovering cluster structure in unlabeled data by optimizing a discriminative loss function. As opposed to supervised deep learning,…

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

In this paper, we propose a one-stage online clustering method called Contrastive Clustering (CC) which explicitly performs the instance- and cluster-level contrastive learning. To be specific, for a given dataset, the positive and negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yunfan Li , Peng Hu , Zitao Liu , Dezhong Peng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Xi Peng

Motivated by applications in crowdsourced entity resolution in database, signed edge prediction in social networks and correlation clustering, Mazumdar and Saha [NIPS 2017] proposed an elegant theoretical model for studying clustering with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Pan Peng , Jiapeng Zhang

Deep clustering as an important branch of unsupervised representation learning focuses on embedding semantically similar samples into the identical feature space. This core demand inspires the exploration of contrastive learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haifeng Xia , Hai Huang , Zhengming Ding

Predictive clustering trees (PCTs) are a well established generalization of standard decision trees, which can be used to solve a variety of predictive modeling tasks, including structured output prediction. Combining them into ensembles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Tomaž Stepišnik , Dragi Kocev

The rapid growth of unlabeled time series data, driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), poses significant challenges in uncovering underlying patterns. Traditional unsupervised clustering methods often fail to capture the complex nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Congyu Wang , Mingjing Du , Xiang Jiang , Yongquan Dong