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Recent years have witnessed the emergence of textual commonsense knowledge bases, aimed at providing more nuanced and context-rich knowledge. The integration of external commonsense into language models has been shown to be a key enabler in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Wanyun Cui , Xingran Chen

There has been much interest recently in developing fair clustering algorithms that seek to do justice to the representation of groups defined along sensitive attributes such as race and gender. We observe that clustering algorithms could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Stanley Simoes , Deepak P , Muiris MacCarthaigh

We study the problem of explainability-first clustering where explainability becomes a first-class citizen for clustering. Previous clustering approaches use decision trees for explanation, but only after the clustering is completed. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Hyunseung Hwang , Steven Euijong Whang

Clustering is one of the most fundamental and wide-spread techniques in exploratory data analysis. Yet, the basic approach to clustering has not really changed: a practitioner hand-picks a task-specific clustering loss to optimize and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yibo Jiang , Nakul Verma

In this work we propose a clustering framework based on the paradigm of transform learning. In simple terms the representation from transform learning is used for K-means clustering; however, the problem is not solved in such a na\"ive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Anurag Goel , Angshul Majumdar

Building explainable systems is a critical problem in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), since most machine learning models provide no explanations for the predictions. Existing approaches for explainable machine learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Hui Liu , Qingyu Yin , William Yang Wang

Pruning has become a promising technique used to compress and accelerate neural networks. Existing methods are mainly evaluated on spare labeling applications. However, dense labeling applications are those closer to real world problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Po-Hsiang Yu , Sih-Sian Wu , Liang-Gee Chen

We study the problem of explainable clustering in the setting first formalized by Dasgupta, Frost, Moshkovitz, and Rashtchian (ICML 2020). A $k$-clustering is said to be explainable if it is given by a decision tree where each internal node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Buddhima Gamlath , Xinrui Jia , Adam Polak , Ola Svensson

We design an interpretable clustering algorithm aware of the nonlinear structure of image manifolds. Our approach leverages the interpretability of $K$-means applied in the image space while addressing its clustering performance issues.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Romain Cosentino , Randall Balestriero , Yanis Bahroun , Anirvan Sengupta , Richard Baraniuk , Behnaam Aazhang

Clustering is a fundamental tool in unsupervised learning, used to group objects by distinguishing between similar and dissimilar features of a given data set. One of the most common clustering algorithms is k-means. Unfortunately, when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-17 Olga Dorabiala , J. Nathan Kutz , Aleksandr Aravkin

Finding the number of meaningful clusters in an unlabeled dataset is important in many applications. Regularized k-means algorithm is a possible approach frequently used to find the correct number of distinct clusters in datasets. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Behzad Kamgar-Parsi , Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi

Clustering is a powerful and extensively used data science tool. While clustering is generally thought of as an unsupervised learning technique, there are also supervised variations such as Spath's clusterwise regression that attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Aravinth Chembu , Scott Sanner

A major limitation of clustering approaches is their lack of explainability: methods rarely provide insight into which features drive the grouping of similar observations. To address this limitation, we propose an ensemble-based clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Federico Maria Quetti , Elena Ballante , Silvia Figini , Paolo Giudici

Cluster discrimination is an effective pretext task for unsupervised representation learning, which often consists of two phases: clustering and discrimination. Clustering is to assign each instance a pseudo label that will be used to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Qi Qian , Yuanhong Xu , Juhua Hu , Hao Li , Rong Jin

The organization of latent knowledge within large-scale models poses unique challenges when addressing overlapping representations and optimizing contextual accuracy. Conceptual redundancies embedded across layers often result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Joseph Sakau , Evander Kozlowski , Roderick Thistledown , Basil Steinberger

This paper describes a design that can be used for Explainable AI. The lower level is a nested ensemble of patterns created by self-organisation. The upper level is a hierarchical tree, where nodes are linked through individual concepts, so…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Kieran Greer

Cluster analysis is a popular unsupervised learning tool used in many disciplines to identify heterogeneous sub-populations within a sample. However, validating cluster analysis results and determining the number of clusters in a data set…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-26 Ali Turfah , Xiaoquan Wen

Discovering pattern sets or global patterns is an attractive issue from the pattern mining community in order to provide useful information. By combining local patterns satisfying a joint meaning, this approach produces patterns of higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-07-19 Patrice Boizumault , Bruno Crémilleux , Mehdi Khiari , Samir Loudni , Jean-Philippe Métivier

Supervised classification can be effective for prediction but sometimes weak on interpretability or explainability (XAI). Clustering, on the other hand, tends to isolate categories or profiles that can be meaningful but there is no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Vincent Lemaire , Oumaima Alaoui Ismaili , Antoine Cornuéjols , Dominique Gay

We propose a novel framework for image clustering that incorporates joint representation learning and clustering. Our method consists of two heads that share the same backbone network - a "representation learning" head and a "clustering"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh