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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

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

Unsupervised clustering is one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning. A popular hypothesis is that data are generated from a union of low-dimensional nonlinear manifolds; thus an approach to clustering is identifying and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Dejiao Zhang , Yifan Sun , Brian Eriksson , Laura Balzano

Deep subspace clustering based on auto-encoder has received wide attention. However, most subspace clustering based on auto-encoder does not utilize the structural information in the self-expressive coefficient matrix, which limits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ling Zhao , Yunpeng Ma , Shanxiong Chen , Jun Zhou

Image clustering is a particularly challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate annotations without human supervision. Recent advances focus on the use of self-supervised learning strategies in image clustering, by first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Foivos Ntelemis , Yaochu Jin , Spencer A. Thomas

Unsupervised machine learning, and in particular data clustering, is a powerful approach for the analysis of datasets and identification of characteristic features occurring throughout a dataset. It is gaining popularity across scientific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Maria El Abbassi , Jan Overbeck , Oliver Braun , Michel Calame , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Mickael L. Perrin

Subspace clustering is an unsupervised clustering technique designed to cluster data that is supported on a union of linear subspaces, with each subspace defining a cluster with dimension lower than the ambient space. Many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Benjamin D. Haeffele , Chong You , René Vidal

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 supervised deep learning has achieved great success in a range of applications, relatively little work has studied the discovery of knowledge from unlabeled data. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised deep learning framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Jinghua Wang , Jianmin Jiang

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

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

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

Subspace clustering is a growing field of unsupervised learning that has gained much popularity in the computer vision community. Applications can be found in areas such as motion segmentation and face clustering. It assumes that data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 Hankui Peng , Nicos G. Pavlidis

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

Selecting the number of communities is a fundamental challenge in network clustering. The silhouette score offers an intuitive, model-free criterion that balances within-cluster cohesion and between-cluster separation. Albeit its widespread…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zongyue Teng , Jun Yan , Dandan Liu , Panpan Zhang

The most widely used internal measure for clustering evaluation is the silhouette coefficient, whose naive computation requires a quadratic number of distance calculations, which is clearly unfeasible for massive datasets. Surprisingly,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Federico Altieri , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Fabio Vandin

Autoencoders offer a general way of learning low-dimensional, non-linear representations from data without labels. This is achieved without making any particular assumptions about the data type or other domain knowledge. The generality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Collin Leiber , Lukas Miklautz , Claudia Plant , Christian Böhm

In this paper, we present a deep extension of Sparse Subspace Clustering, termed Deep Sparse Subspace Clustering (DSSC). Regularized by the unit sphere distribution assumption for the learned deep features, DSSC can infer a new data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Xi Peng , Jiashi Feng , Shijie Xiao , Jiwen Lu , Zhang Yi , Shuicheng Yan

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

Silhouette coefficient is an established internal clustering evaluation measure that produces a score per data point, assessing the quality of its clustering assignment. To assess the quality of the clustering of the whole dataset, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 John Pavlopoulos , Georgios Vardakas , Aristidis Likas