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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

There has been a surge in the number of large and flat data sets - data sets containing a large number of features and a relatively small number of observations - due to the growing ability to collect and store information in medical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-05 Hongyang Zhang , Ruben H. Zamar

Co-clustering is a data mining technique used to extract the underlying block structure between the rows and columns of a data matrix. Many approaches have been studied and have shown their capacity to extract such structures in continuous,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Aichetou Bouchareb , Marc Boullé , Fabrice Clérot , Fabrice Rossi

We address the classical problem of hierarchical clustering, but in a framework where one does not have access to a representation of the objects or their pairwise similarities. Instead, we assume that only a set of comparisons between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Michaël Perrot , Ulrike von Luxburg

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

The high dimensionality of hyperspectral images often results in the degradation of clustering performance. Due to the powerful ability of deep feature extraction and non-linear feature representation, the clustering algorithm based on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jinguang Sun , Wanli Wang , Xian Wei , Li Fang , Xiaoliang Tang , Yusheng Xu , Hui Yu , Wei Yao

Clustering can be used to extract insights from data or to verify some of the assumptions held by the domain experts, namely data segmentation. In the literature, few methods can be applied in clustering qualitative values using the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Diogo Seca , João Mendes-Moreira , Tiago Mendes-Neves , Ricardo Sousa

Clustering is the task of gathering similar data samples into clusters without using any predefined labels. It has been widely studied in machine learning literature, and recent advancements in deep learning have revived interest in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

Hierarchical semantic structures naturally exist in an image dataset, in which several semantically relevant image clusters can be further integrated into a larger cluster with coarser-grained semantics. Capturing such structures with image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yuanfan Guo , Minghao Xu , Jiawen Li , Bingbing Ni , Xuanyu Zhu , Zhenbang Sun , Yi Xu

We present a novel deep neural network architecture for unsupervised subspace clustering. This architecture is built upon deep auto-encoders, which non-linearly map the input data into a latent space. Our key idea is to introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Pan Ji , Tong Zhang , Hongdong Li , Mathieu Salzmann , Ian Reid

Deep learning technology has enabled successful modeling of complex facial features when high quality images are available. Nonetheless, accurate modeling and recognition of human faces in real world scenarios `on the wild' or under adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 S. W. Arachchilage , E. Izquierdo

Clustering has been a major research topic in the field of machine learning, one to which Deep Learning has recently been applied with significant success. However, an aspect of clustering that is not addressed by existing deep clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

Data analysis and data mining are concerned with unsupervised pattern finding and structure determination in data sets. "Structure" can be understood as symmetry and a range of symmetries are expressed by hierarchy. Such symmetries directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Fionn Murtagh , Pedro Contreras

Unsupervised clustering, also known as natural clustering, stands for the classification of data according to their similarities. Here we study this problem from the perspective of complex networks. Mapping the description of data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-08-22 Clara Granell , Sergio Gomez , Alex Arenas

Probabilistic clustering models (or equivalently, mixture models) are basic building blocks in countless statistical models and involve latent random variables over discrete spaces. For these models, posterior inference methods can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-24 Ari Pakman , Yueqi Wang , Catalin Mitelut , JinHyung Lee , Liam Paninski

Classification and clustering have been studied separately in machine learning and computer vision. Inspired by the recent success of deep learning models in solving various vision problems (e.g., object recognition, semantic segmentation)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Ali Borji , Aysegul Dundar

Hierarchical clustering is a critical task in numerous domains. Many approaches are based on heuristics and the properties of the resulting clusterings are studied post hoc. However, in several applications, there is a natural cost function…

Clustering algorithms rely on complex optimisation processes that may be difficult to comprehend, especially for individuals who lack technical expertise. While many explainable artificial intelligence techniques exist for supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Aurora Spagnol , Kacper Sokol , Pietro Barbiero , Marc Langheinrich , Martin Gjoreski

We present a discriminative clustering approach in which the feature representation can be learned from data and moreover leverage labeled data. Representation learning can give a similarity-based clustering method the ability to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-21 Corinne Jones , Vincent Roulet , Zaid Harchaoui

Clustering high-dimensional datasets is hard because interpoint distances become less informative in high-dimensional spaces. We present a clustering algorithm that performs nonlinear dimensionality reduction and clustering jointly. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun