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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

Despite tremendous advancements in Artificial Intelligence, learning from large sets of data in an unsupervised manner remains a significant challenge. Classical clustering algorithms often fail to discover complex dependencies in large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Adam Piróg , Halina Kwaśnicka

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

Whilst contrastive learning has recently brought notable benefits to deep clustering of unlabelled images by learning sample-specific discriminative visual features, its potential for explicitly inferring class decision boundaries is less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

Graph clustering is a longstanding research topic, and has achieved remarkable success with the deep learning methods in recent years. Nevertheless, we observe that several important issues largely remain open. On the one hand, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Li Sun , Feiyang Wang , Junda Ye , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Deep graph clustering has recently received significant attention due to its ability to enhance the representation learning capabilities of models in unsupervised scenarios. Nevertheless, deep clustering for temporal graphs, which could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Meng Liu , Yue Liu , Ke Liang , Wenxuan Tu , Siwei Wang , Sihang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Recent work on explainable clustering allows describing clusters when the features are interpretable. However, much modern machine learning focuses on complex data such as images, text, and graphs where deep learning is used but the raw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Hongjing Zhang , Ian Davidson

Deep clustering has recently emerged as a promising technique for complex data clustering. Despite the considerable progress, previous deep clustering works mostly build or learn the final clustering by only utilizing a single layer of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dong Huang , Ding-Hua Chen , Xiangji Chen , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

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

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

Deep clustering is an essential task in modern artificial intelligence, aiming to partition a set of data samples into a given number of homogeneous groups (i.e., clusters). Recent studies have proposed increasingly advanced deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Tianyu Cheng , Qun Chen

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision and pattern recognition. Recently, deep clustering methods (algorithms based on deep learning) have attracted wide attention with their impressive performance. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yanhai Gan , Xinghui Dong , Huiyu Zhou , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

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

We propose a novel framework for image clustering that incorporates joint representation learning and clustering. Our method consists of two heads that share the same backbone network - a "representation learning" head and a "clustering"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

While prior work on group recommender systems (GRSs) has primarily focused on improving recommendation accuracy, most approaches assume static or predefined groups, making them unsuitable for dynamic, real-world scenarios. We reframe group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Junhyung Park , Hyungjin Kim , Seokho Ahn , Young-Duk Seo

Deep clustering outperforms conventional clustering by mutually promoting representation learning and cluster assignment. However, most existing deep clustering methods suffer from two major drawbacks. First, most cluster assignment methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Hanxuan Wang , Na Lu , Qinyang Liu

In unsupervised feature learning, sample specificity based methods ignore the inter-class information, which deteriorates the discriminative capability of representation models. Clustering based methods are error-prone to explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yifei Zhang , Chang Liu , Yu Zhou , Wei Wang , Weiping Wang , Qixiang Ye

Clustering in dynamic environments is of increasing importance, with broad applications ranging from real-time data analysis and online unsupervised learning to dynamic facility location problems. While meta-heuristics have shown promising…

Attributed graph clustering holds significant importance in modern data analysis. However, due to the complexity of graph data and the heterogeneity of node attributes, leveraging graph information for clustering remains challenging. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Binxiong Li , Xu Xiang , Xue Li , Quanzhou Lou , Binyu Zhao , Yujie Liu , Huijie Tang , Benhan Yang

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