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This paper introduces a fine-grained contrastive learning scheme for unsupervised node clustering. Previous clustering methods only focus on a small feature set (class-dependent features), which demonstrates explicit clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Hang Cui , Tarek Abdelzaher

Training generative models like Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is challenging for noisy data. A novel curriculum learning algorithm pertaining to clustering is proposed to address this issue in this paper. The curriculum construction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Deli Zhao , Jiapeng Zhu , Zhenfang Guo , Bo Zhang

We propose a deep learning approach for discovering kernels tailored to identifying clusters over sample data. Our neural network produces sample embeddings that are motivated by--and are at least as expressive as--spectral clustering. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Chieh Wu , Zulqarnain Khan , Yale Chang , Stratis Ioannidis , Jennifer Dy

The clustering of bounded data presents unique challenges in statistical analysis due to the constraints imposed on the data values. This paper introduces a novel method for model-based clustering specifically designed for bounded data.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-16 Luca Scrucca

Clustering methods based on deep neural networks have proven promising for clustering real-world data because of their high representational power. In this paper, we propose a systematic taxonomy of clustering methods that utilize deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Elie Aljalbout , Vladimir Golkov , Yawar Siddiqui , Maximilian Strobel , Daniel Cremers

General Continual Learning (GCL) aims at learning from non independent and identically distributed stream data without catastrophic forgetting of the old tasks that don't rely on task boundaries during both training and testing stages. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhong Ji , Jin Li , Qiang Wang , Zhongfei Zhang

Deep clustering (DC) is often quoted to have a key advantage over $k$-means clustering. Yet, this advantage is often demonstrated using image datasets only, and it is unclear whether it addresses the fundamental limitations of $k$-means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Kai Ming Ting , Wei-Jie Xu , Hang Zhang

Face clustering is an essential tool for exploiting the unlabeled face data, and has a wide range of applications including face annotation and retrieval. Recent works show that supervised clustering can result in noticeable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Lei Yang , Dapeng Chen , Xiaohang Zhan , Rui Zhao , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin

The rapid evolution of generative AI, from GANs to modern diffusion models, has resulted in increasingly subtle discriminative clues. These fine-grained signals are often overshadowed by dominant, high-fidelity image content (e.g., the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xiaoyu Zhou , Jianwei Fei , Peipeng Yu , Jingchang Xie , Chong Cheng , Zhihua Xia

A widely used paradigm to improve the generalization performance of high-capacity neural models is through the addition of auxiliary unsupervised tasks during supervised training. Tasks such as similarity matching and input reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shivin Srivastava , Kenji Kawaguchi , Vaibhav Rajan

We present a technique for clustering categorical data by generating many dissimilarity matrices and averaging over them. We begin by demonstrating our technique on low dimensional categorical data and comparing it to several other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-20 Saeid Amiri , Bertrand Clarke , Jennifer Clarke

Recently, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as one of the optimal solutions for node-level and supervised tasks. However, for structure-related and unsupervised tasks such as graph clustering, current GCL algorithms face…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yuecheng Li , Lele Fu , Sheng Huang , Chuan Chen , Lei Yang , Zibin Zheng

Clustering functional data is a challenging task due to intrinsic infinite-dimensionality and the need for stable, data-adaptive partitioning. In this work, we propose a clustering framework based on Random Projections, which simultaneously…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-18 Matteo Mori , Laura Anderlucci

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in learning graph representations and thus facilitating various graph-related tasks. However, most GNN methods adopt a supervised learning setting, which is not always feasible in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hongliang Chi , Yao Ma

Clustering is a well-known unsupervised machine learning approach capable of automatically grouping discrete sets of instances with similar characteristics. Constrained clustering is a semi-supervised extension to this process that can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Germán González-Almagro , Daniel Peralta , Eli De Poorter , José-Ramón Cano , Salvador García

To cluster data is to separate samples into distinctive groups that should ideally have some cohesive properties. Today, numerous clustering algorithms exist, and their differences lie essentially in what can be perceived as ``cohesive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-08 Louis Ohl , Pierre-Alexandre Mattei , Frédéric Precioso

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

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

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

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