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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

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) and Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) enhance the model performance by exploiting information from labeled and unlabeled data. The clustering assumption has proven advantageous for learning with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Durgesh Singh , Ahcène Boubekki , Robert Jenssen , Michael Kampffmeyer

Working with annotated data is the cornerstone of supervised learning. Nevertheless, providing labels to instances is a task that requires significant human effort. Several critical real-world applications make things more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Erencem Ozbey , Dimitrios I. Diochnos

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Recently, a number of works have studied clustering strategies that combine classical clustering algorithms and deep learning methods. These approaches follow either a sequential way, where a deep representation is learned using a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Severine Affeldt , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif

Clustering of hyperspectral images is a fundamental but challenging task. The recent development of hyperspectral image clustering has evolved from shallow models to deep and achieved promising results in many benchmark datasets. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yaoming Cai , Zijia Zhang , Yan Liu , Pedram Ghamisi , Kun Li , Xiaobo Liu , Zhihua Cai

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer a means of addressing the challenging task of clustering high-dimensional data. DNNs can extract useful features, and so produce a lower dimensional representation, which is more amenable to clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Unsupervised learning has always been appealing to machine learning researchers and practitioners, allowing them to avoid an expensive and complicated process of labeling the data. However, unsupervised learning of complex data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised clustering which remains one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. We propose the clustered generator model for clustering which contains both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-20 Dandan Zhu , Tian Han , Linqi Zhou , Xiaokang Yang , Ying Nian Wu

While unbiased machine learning models are essential for many applications, bias is a human-defined concept that can vary across tasks. Given only input-label pairs, algorithms may lack sufficient information to distinguish stable (causal)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yujia Bao , Shiyu Chang , Regina Barzilay

This paper presents a method for solving the supervised learning problem in which the output is highly nonlinear and discontinuous. It is proposed to solve this problem in three stages: (i) cluster the pairs of input-output data points,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 David E. Bernholdt , Mark R. Cianciosa , Clement Etienam , David L. Green , Kody J. H. Law , J. M. Park

This work presents an unsupervised deep discriminant analysis for clustering. The method is based on deep neural networks and aims to minimize the intra-cluster discrepancy and maximize the inter-cluster discrepancy in an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Jinyu Cai , Wenzhong Guo , Jicong Fan

Recently, deep clustering, which is able to perform feature learning that favors clustering tasks via deep neural networks, has achieved remarkable performance in image clustering applications. However, the existing deep clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Yazhou Ren , Ni Wang , Mingxia Li , Zenglin Xu

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

We consider the problem of deep fair clustering, which partitions data into clusters via the representations extracted by deep neural networks while hiding sensitive data attributes. To achieve fairness, existing methods present a variety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xiang 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

In this paper, we focus on unsupervised representation learning for clustering of images. Recent advances in deep clustering and unsupervised representation learning are based on the idea that different views of an input image (generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Jayanth Reddy Regatti , Eren Manavoglu , Urun Dogan

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

Diffusion models, widely recognized for their success in generative tasks, have not yet been applied to clustering. We introduce Clustering via Diffusion (CLUDI), a self-supervised framework that combines the generative power of diffusion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Roy Uziel , Irit Chelly , Oren Freifeld , Ari Pakman

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Bishwajit Saha , Dmitry Krotov , Mohammed J. Zaki , Parikshit Ram