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Clustering methods have led to a number of important discoveries in bioinformatics and beyond. A major challenge in their use is determining which clusters represent important underlying structure, as opposed to spurious sampling artifacts.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-20 Hanwen Huang , Yufeng Liu , Ming Yuan , J. S. Marron

We introduce the Neural Collaborative Subspace Clustering, a neural model that discovers clusters of data points drawn from a union of low-dimensional subspaces. In contrast to previous attempts, our model runs without the aid of spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Tong Zhang , Pan Ji , Mehrtash Harandi , Wenbing Huang , Hongdong Li

Dictionary learning and sparse coding have been widely studied as mechanisms for unsupervised feature learning. Unsupervised learning could bring enormous benefit to the processing of hyperspectral images and to other remote sensing data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Joshua Bruton , Hairong Wang

Unsupervised Re-ID methods aim at learning robust and discriminative features from unlabeled data. However, existing methods often ignore the relationship between module parameters of Re-ID framework and feature distributions, which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Ziqi He , Mengjia Xue , Yunhao Du , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su

Few-shot learning has been extensively explored to address problems where the amount of labeled samples is very limited for some classes. In the semi-supervised few-shot learning setting, substantial quantities of unlabeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Souvik Maji , Rhythm Baghel , Pratik Mazumder

We present a novel clustering objective that learns a neural network classifier from scratch, given only unlabelled data samples. The model discovers clusters that accurately match semantic classes, achieving state-of-the-art results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Xu Ji , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Cluster analysis methods seek to partition a data set into homogeneous subgroups. It is useful in a wide variety of applications, including document processing and modern genetics. Conventional clustering methods are unsupervised, meaning…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-11 Eric Bair

We study supervised learning problems using clustering constraints to impose structure on either features or samples, seeking to help both prediction and interpretation. The problem of clustering features arises naturally in text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Vincent Roulet , Fajwel Fogel , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach

Convex clustering has recently garnered increasing interest due to its attractive theoretical and computational properties, but its merits become limited in the face of high-dimensional data. In such settings, pairwise affinity terms that…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Jason Xu

Despite significant advances in clustering methods in recent years, the outcome of clustering of a natural image dataset is still unsatisfactory due to two important drawbacks. Firstly, clustering of images needs a good feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dipanjan Das , Ratul Ghosh , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

In recent years, the growing need to leverage sensitive data across institutions has led to increased attention on federated learning (FL), a decentralized machine learning paradigm that enables model training without sharing raw data.…

Although supervised deep representation learning has attracted enormous attentions across areas of pattern recognition and computer vision, little progress has been made towards unsupervised deep representation learning for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Jinghua Wang , Jianmin Jiang

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

Clustering is an unsupervised learning problem that aims to partition unlabelled data points into groups with similar features. Traditional clustering algorithms provide limited insight into the groups they find as their main focus is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

Deep clustering incorporates embedding into clustering to find a lower-dimensional space appropriate for clustering. In this paper, we propose a novel deep clustering framework with self-supervision using pairwise similarities (DCSS). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Narges Armanfard

Metric clustering is fundamental in areas ranging from Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining, to Machine Learning and Operations Research. However, in a variety of situations we may have additional requirements or knowledge, distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Brian Brubach , Darshan Chakrabarti , John P. Dickerson , Aravind Srinivasan , Leonidas Tsepenekas

Spectral clustering methods have gained widespread recognition for their effectiveness in clustering high-dimensional data. Among these techniques, constrained spectral clustering has emerged as a prominent approach, demonstrating enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Swarup Ranjan Behera , Vijaya V. Saradhi

Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

This paper introduces {\em fusion subspace clustering}, a novel method to learn low-dimensional structures that approximate large scale yet highly incomplete data. The main idea is to assign each datum to a subspace of its own, and minimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Usman Mahmood , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

This paper presents a neural network-based end-to-end clustering framework. We design a novel strategy to utilize the contrastive criteria for pushing data-forming clusters directly from raw data, in addition to learning a feature embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zsolt Kira