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Existing works are dedicated to untangling atomized numerical components (features) from the hidden states of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, they typically rely on autoencoders constrained by some training-time regularization on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hakaze Cho , Haolin Yang , Yanshu Li , Brian M. Kurkoski , Naoya Inoue

High-dimensional categorical data arise in diverse scientific domains and are often accompanied by covariates. Latent class regression models are routinely used in such settings, reducing dimensionality by assuming conditional independence…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-28 Yuren Zhou , Yuqi Gu , David B. Dunson

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are used to decompose neural network activations into sparsely activating features, but many SAE features are only interpretable at high activation strengths. To address this issue we propose to use binary sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Lucia Quirke , Stepan Shabalin , Nora Belrose

We present a novel deep neural network architecture for unsupervised subspace clustering. This architecture is built upon deep auto-encoders, which non-linearly map the input data into a latent space. Our key idea is to introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Pan Ji , Tong Zhang , Hongdong Li , Mathieu Salzmann , Ian Reid

Multi-view subspace clustering aims to divide a set of multisource data into several groups according to their underlying subspace structure. Although the spectral clustering based methods achieve promotion in multi-view clustering, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Songsong Wu , Zhiqiang Lu , Hao Tang , Yan Yan , Songhao Zhu , Xiao-Yuan Jing , Zuoyong Li

Clustering mixed-type data remains a major challenge in biomedical research to uncover clinically meaningful subgroups within heterogeneous patient populations. Most existing clustering methods impose restrictive assumptions like local…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-23 Yueting Wang , Shu Wang , Jonathan G. Yabes , Chung-Chou H. Chang

We propose the Lasso Weighted $k$-means ($LW$-$k$-means) algorithm as a simple yet efficient sparse clustering procedure for high-dimensional data where the number of features ($p$) can be much larger compared to the number of observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-26 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Swagatam Das

White matter fiber clustering is an important strategy for white matter parcellation, which enables quantitative analysis of brain connections in health and disease. In combination with expert neuroanatomical labeling, data-driven white…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yuqian Chen , Chaoyi Zhang , Tengfei Xue , Yang Song , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Weidong Cai , Fan Zhang , Lauren J. O'Donnell

While large language-image pre-trained models like CLIP offer powerful generic features for image clustering, existing methods typically freeze the encoder. This creates a fundamental mismatch between the model's task-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zihan Li , Wei Sun , Jing Hu , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Liqiang Nie

Sparse additive models have attracted much attention in high-dimensional data analysis due to their flexible representation and strong interpretability. However, most existing models are limited to single-level learning under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xuelin Zhang , Xinyue Liu , Lingjuan Wu , Hong Chen

We exploit a general cluster-based network architecture for a fronthaul-limited user-centric cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system under different degrees of cooperation among the access points (APs) to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zahra Mobini , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Li Wang , Gunnar Peters , Hyundong Shin , Hien Quoc Ngo

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) offer a natural path toward comparable explanations across different representation spaces. However, current SAEs are trained per modality, producing dictionaries whose features are not directly understandable and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Difei Gu , Yunhe Gao , Gerasimos Chatzoudis , Zihan Dong , Guoning Zhang , Bangwei Guo , Yang Zhou , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

The task of clustering a set of objects based on multiple sources of data arises in several modern applications. We propose an integrative statistical model that permits a separate clustering of the objects for each data source. These…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-01 Eric F. Lock , David B. Dunson

Clustering is considered a non-supervised learning setting, in which the goal is to partition a collection of data points into disjoint clusters. Often a bound $k$ on the number of clusters is given or assumed by the practitioner. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Nir Ailon , Ron Begleiter

A tensor provides a concise way to codify the interdependence of complex data. Treating a tensor as a d-way array, each entry records the interaction between the different indices. Clustering provides a way to parse the complexity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Derek DeSantis , Phillip J. Wolfram , Katrina Bennett , Boian Alexandrov

We propose a novel methodology for feature screening in clustering massive datasets, in which both the number of features and the number of observations can potentially be very large. Taking advantage of a fusion penalization based convex…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-05 Trambak Banerjee , Gourab Mukherjee , Peter Radchenko

Whole slide images (WSIs) are the gold standard for pathological diagnosis and sub-typing. Current main-stream two-step frameworks employ offline feature encoders trained without domain-specific knowledge. Among them, attention-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingrui Ma , Chentao Li , Pan Huang , Jing Qin

Being able to evaluate the quality of a clustering result even in the absence of ground truth cluster labels is fundamental for research in data mining. However, most cluster validation indices (CVIs) do not capture noise assignments by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Anna Beer , Lena Krieger , Pascal Weber , Martin Ritzert , Ira Assent , Claudia Plant

Classical supervised classification tasks search for a nonlinear mapping that maps each encoded feature directly to a probability mass over the labels. Such a learning framework typically lacks the intuition that encoded features from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Cat P. Le , Yi Zhou , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

This paper presents a new approach to non-parametric cluster analysis called Adaptive Weights Clustering (AWC). The idea is to identify the clustering structure by checking at different points and for different scales on departure from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-27 Kirill Efimov , Larisa Adamyan , Vladimir Spokoiny