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Many clustering problems in computer vision and other contexts are also classification problems, where each cluster shares a meaningful label. Subspace clustering algorithms in particular are often applied to problems that fit this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 John Lipor , Laura Balzano

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

Deep clustering methods typically rely on a single, well-defined representation for clustering. In contrast, pretrained diffusion models provide abundant and diverse multi-scale representations across network layers and noise timesteps.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Haidong Hu , Xiaoyu Zheng , Jin Zhou , Yingxu Wang , Rui Wang , Pei Dong , Shiyuan Han , Lin Wang , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang , Yuehui Chen

Cluster analysis plays an indispensable role in machine learning and data mining. Learning a good data representation is crucial for clustering algorithms. Recently, deep clustering, which can learn clustering-friendly representations using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yazhou Ren , Jingyu Pu , Zhimeng Yang , Jie Xu , Guofeng Li , Xiaorong Pu , Philip S. Yu , Lifang He

This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of prominent clustering algorithms K-means, DBSCAN, and Spectral Clustering on high-dimensional datasets. We introduce a novel evaluation framework that assesses clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Vishnu Vardhan Baligodugula , Fathi Amsaad

Clustering is one of the most fundamental and wide-spread techniques in exploratory data analysis. Yet, the basic approach to clustering has not really changed: a practitioner hand-picks a task-specific clustering loss to optimize and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yibo Jiang , Nakul Verma

We propose a hierarchical correlation clustering method that extends the well-known correlation clustering to produce hierarchical clusters applicable to both positive and negative pairwise dissimilarities. Then, in the following, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

The clustering methods have recently absorbed even-increasing attention in learning and vision. Deep clustering combines embedding and clustering together to obtain optimal embedding subspace for clustering, which can be more effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Xu Yang , Cheng Deng , Feng Zheng , Junchi Yan , Wei Liu

Deep Learning (DL) has shown great promise in the unsupervised task of clustering. That said, while in classical (i.e., non-deep) clustering the benefits of the nonparametric approach are well known, most deep-clustering methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Meitar Ronen , Shahaf E. Finder , Oren Freifeld

To cluster data is to separate samples into distinctive groups that should ideally have some cohesive properties. Today, numerous clustering algorithms exist, and their differences lie essentially in what can be perceived as ``cohesive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-08 Louis Ohl , Pierre-Alexandre Mattei , Frédéric Precioso

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

Face clustering tasks can learn hierarchical semantic information from large-scale data, which has the potential to help facilitate face recognition. However, there are few works on this problem. This paper explores it by proposing a joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Zhenduo Zhang

This paper studies the subspace clustering problem in which data points collected from high-dimensional ambient space lie in a union of linear subspaces. Subspace clustering becomes challenging when the dimension of intersection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Weiwei Li , Mostafa Rahmani , Ping Li

Data for face analysis often exhibit highly-skewed class distribution, i.e., most data belong to a few majority classes, while the minority classes only contain a scarce amount of instances. To mitigate this issue, contemporary deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Chen Huang , Yining Li , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Active learning selects the most informative samples from the unlabelled dataset to annotate in the context of a limited annotation budget. While numerous methods have been proposed for subsequent sample selection based on an initialized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Han Yuan , Chuan Hong

Clustering ensemble has been a popular research topic in data science due to its ability to improve the robustness of the single clustering method. Many clustering ensemble methods have been proposed, most of which can be categorized into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Feijiang Li , Jieting Wang , Liuya zhang , Yuhua Qian , Shuai jin , Tao Yan , Liang Du

This paper addresses the clustering of data in the hyperdimensional computing (HDC) domain. In prior work, an HDC-based clustering framework, referred to as HDCluster, has been proposed. However, the performance of the existing HDCluster is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Lulu Ge , Keshab K. Parhi

Deep clustering can optimize representations of instances (i.e., representation learning) and explore the inherent data distribution (i.e., clustering) simultaneously, which demonstrates a superior performance over conventional clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Qi Qian

With the consolidation of deep learning in drug discovery, several novel algorithms for learning molecular representations have been proposed. Despite the interest of the community in developing new methods for learning molecular embeddings…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-09 María Virginia Sabando , Ignacio Ponzoni , Evangelos E. Milios , Axel J. Soto

This paper presents a neural network-based end-to-end clustering framework. We design a novel strategy to utilize the contrastive criteria for pushing data-forming clusters directly from raw data, in addition to learning a feature embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zsolt Kira