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Data clustering, the task of grouping observations according to their similarity, is a key component of unsupervised learning -- with real world applications in diverse fields such as biology, medicine, and social science. Often in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Anne Sophie Riis Damstrup , Sofie Tosti Madsen , Michele Coscia

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

Spectral Clustering is a popular technique to split data points into groups, especially for complex datasets. The algorithms in the Spectral Clustering family typically consist of multiple separate stages (such as similarity matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Yifei Wang , Rui Liu , Yong Chen , Hui Zhangs , Zhiwen Ye

A novel method to obtain hierarchical and overlapping clusters from network data -i.e., a set of nodes endowed with pairwise dissimilarities- is presented. The introduced method is hierarchical in the sense that it outputs a nested…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Fernando Gama , Santiago Segarra , Alejandro Ribeiro

Neural network-based clustering has recently gained popularity, and in particular a constrained clustering formulation has been proposed to perform transfer learning and image category discovery using deep learning. The core idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zhaoyang Lv , Joel Schlosser , Phillip Odom , Zsolt Kira

Deep representation learning is a crucial procedure in multimedia analysis and attracts increasing attention. Most of the popular techniques rely on convolutional neural network and require a large amount of labeled data in the training…

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

Large datasets with interactions between objects are common to numerous scientific fields (i.e. social science, internet, biology...). The interactions naturally define a graph and a common way to explore or summarize such dataset is graph…

Applications · Statistics 2009-10-13 Hugo Zanghi , Stevenn Volant , Christophe Ambroise

Clustering is a popular machine learning technique for data mining that can process and analyze datasets to automatically reveal sample distribution patterns. Since the ubiquitous categorical data naturally lack a well-defined metric space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yiqun Zhang , Mingjie Zhao , Hong Jia , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung

Network data appears in very diverse applications, like biological, social, or sensor networks. Clustering of network nodes into categories or communities has thus become a very common task in machine learning and data mining. Network data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Mireille El Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

Self-supervised heterogeneous graph learning (SHGL) has shown promising potential in diverse scenarios. However, while existing SHGL methods share a similar essential with clustering approaches, they encounter two significant limitations:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yujie Mo , Zhihe Lu , Runpeng Yu , Xiaofeng Zhu , Xinchao Wang

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

In the last years many studies examined the consistency of students' answers in a variety of contexts. Some of these papers tried to develop more detailed models of the consistency of students' reasoning, or to subdivide a sample of…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-08-17 Onofrio Rosario Battaglia , Benedetto Di Paola , Claudio Fazio

Many similarity-based clustering methods work in two separate steps including similarity matrix computation and subsequent spectral clustering. However, similarity measurement is challenging because it is usually impacted by many factors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Qiang Cheng

We propose a novel end-to-end neural network architecture that, once trained, directly outputs a probabilistic clustering of a batch of input examples in one pass. It estimates a distribution over the number of clusters $k$, and for each $1…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Benjamin Bruno Meier , Ismail Elezi , Mohammadreza Amirian , Oliver Durr , Thilo Stadelmann

Spectral clustering is a fundamental technique in the field of data mining and information processing. Most existing spectral clustering algorithms integrate dimensionality reduction into the clustering process assisted by manifold learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Xiaojun Chang , Feiping Nie , Zhigang Ma , Yi Yang , Xiaofang Zhou

To alleviate the cost of collecting and annotating large-scale point cloud datasets, we propose an unsupervised learning approach to learn features from unlabeled point cloud "3D object" dataset by using part contrasting and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ling Zhang , Zhigang Zhu

Graph clustering is a fundamental problem that has been extensively studied both in theory and practice. The problem has been defined in several ways in literature and most of them have been proven to be NP-Hard. Due to their high practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Sumit Singh

Subspace clustering methods based on data self-expression have become very popular for learning from data that lie in a union of low-dimensional linear subspaces. However, the applicability of subspace clustering has been limited because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Junjian Zhang , Chun-Guang Li , Chong You , Xianbiao Qi , Honggang Zhang , Jun Guo , Zhouchen Lin

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

The clustering methods have recently absorbed even-increasing attention in learning and vision. Deep clustering combines embedding and clustering together to obtain optimal embedding subspace for clustering, which can be more effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Xu Yang , Cheng Deng , Feng Zheng , Junchi Yan , Wei Liu