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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

Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning approach. Many clustering algorithms -- such as $k$-means -- rely on the euclidean distance as a similarity measure, which is often not the most relevant metric for high dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Aude Genevay , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Jean-Philippe Vert

In this paper, we focus on the fairness issues regarding unsupervised outlier detection. Traditional algorithms, without a specific design for algorithmic fairness, could implicitly encode and propagate statistical bias in data and raise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Hanyu Song , Peizhao Li , Hongfu Liu

We introduce a general semiparametric clusterwise elliptical distribution to assess how latent cluster structure shapes continuous outcomes. Using a subjectwise representation, we first estimate cluster-specific mean vectors and a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-10 Jen-Chieh Teng , Sheng-Hsin Fan , Chin-Tsang Chiang , Ming-Yueh Huang , Alvin Lim

A deep clustering model conceptually consists of a feature extractor that maps data points to a latent space, and a clustering head that groups data points into clusters in the latent space. Although the two components used to be trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Xingzhi Zhou , Nevin L. Zhang

Deep clustering has been dominated by flat models, which split a dataset into a predefined number of groups. Although recent methods achieve an extremely high similarity with the ground truth on popular benchmarks, the information contained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michał Znaleźniak , Przemysław Rola , Patryk Kaszuba , Jacek Tabor , Marek Śmieja

Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning. The focus of this paper is the Correlation Clustering functional which combines positive and negative affinities between the data points. The contribution of this paper is two fold:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Shai Bagon , Meirav Galun

Feature selection is an essential problem in computer vision, important for category learning and recognition. Along with the rapid development of a wide variety of visual features and classifiers, there is a growing need for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Marius Leordeanu , Alexandra Radu , Rahul Sukthankar

In real-world applications, data do not reflect the ones commonly used for neural networks training, since they are usually few, unlabeled and can be available as a stream. Hence many existing deep learning solutions suffer from a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Alessia Bertugli , Stefano Vincenzi , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini

We introduce a novel end-to-end approach for learning to cluster in the absence of labeled examples. Our clustering objective is based on optimizing normalized cuts, a criterion which measures both intra-cluster similarity as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

Estimating the number of clusters and cluster structures in unlabeled, complex, and high-dimensional datasets (like images) is challenging for traditional clustering algorithms. In recent years, a matrix reordering-based algorithm called…

The task of labeling data for training deep neural networks is daunting and tedious, requiring millions of labels to achieve the current state-of-the-art results. Such reliance on large amounts of labeled data can be relaxed by exploiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Aysegul Dundar , Jonghoon Jin , Eugenio Culurciello

The clustering of unlabeled raw images is a daunting task, which has recently been approached with some success by deep learning methods. Here we propose an unsupervised clustering framework, which learns a deep neural network in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Guy Shiran , Daphna Weinshall

Semi-supervised clustering is an very important topic in machine learning and computer vision. The key challenge of this problem is how to learn a metric, such that the instances sharing the same label are more likely close to each other on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Gang Chen

Subspace clustering is an important unsupervised clustering approach. It is based on the assumption that the high-dimensional data points are approximately distributed around several low-dimensional linear subspaces. The majority of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Maryam Abdolali , Nicolas Gillis

Subspace clustering refers to the task of finding a multi-subspace representation that best fits a collection of points taken from a high-dimensional space. This paper introduces an algorithm inspired by sparse subspace clustering (SSC) [In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Ehsan Elhamifar , Emmanuel J. Candès

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

Context: The huge and still rapidly growing amount of galaxies in modern sky surveys raises the need of an automated and objective classification method. Unsupervised learning algorithms are of particular interest, since they discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rene Andrae , Peter Melchior , Matthias Bartelmann

Semi-supervised clustering seeks to augment traditional clustering methods by incorporating side information provided via human expertise in order to increase the semantic meaningfulness of the resulting clusters. However, most current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Caiming Xiong , David Johnson , Jason J. Corso

The field of deep clustering combines deep learning and clustering to learn representations that improve both the learned representation and the performance of the considered clustering method. Most existing deep clustering methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Lukas Miklautz , Martin Teuffenbach , Pascal Weber , Rona Perjuci , Walid Durani , Christian Böhm , Claudia Plant