Proposes a new model for unsupervised clustering with latent variables.
problem The challenge of unsupervised clustering in machine learning.
method Clustered Generator Model with continuous and discrete latent variables.
result Achieves competitive unsupervised clustering accuracy and disentangled latent representations.
A novel unsupervised feature learning architecture using multi-clustering integration and MIRBM.
problem Feature learning without labeled data.
method Multi-clustering integration module with MIRBM, using K-means, affinity propagation, and spectral clustering.
result The proposed architecture outperforms state-of-the-art methods in clustering tasks.
New methods for evaluating clustering quality.
problem Evaluating unsupervised clustering results.
method Various techniques to evaluate clustering quality.
result No perfect clustering evaluation metric exists.
Unsupervised clustering can reproduce categorization systems if features and metrics are correctly selected.
problem Reproducing expert-provided categorization systems using unsupervised clustering.
method Investigated using toy datasets and real-world fund categorization. Used appropriate feature selection and a supervised Random Forest-based distance metric.
result Unsupervised clustering can reproduce ground truth classes if features and metrics are correctly selected.
Unsupervised clustering of series using dynamic programming.
problem Clustering coherent segments in multi-variate series.
method Dynamic programming algorithm with constraints.
result Clusters of coherent segments identified using Waxman-Smits equation.
A deep clustering model learns to separate audio sources without supervision.
problem Training deep clustering models requires supervision, limiting their applicability.
method Proposes an unsupervised spatial clustering approach to train a deep clustering system.
result The deep clustering model achieves similar performance to a multi-channel teacher without supervision.
Paper proposes a novel unsupervised feature selection method using K-means and ADMM.
problem Finding a subset of features for high-dimensional unsupervised learning problems.
method Developed K-means Derived Unsupervised Feature Selection (K-means UFS) using ADMM to solve NP-hard optimization.
result K-means UFS outperforms baselines in feature selection for clustering.
Kauri is a novel unsupervised binary tree for clustering that outperforms existing methods.
problem Learning a tree end-to-end for clustering without labels is an open challenge.
method Greedy maximization of the kernel KMeans objective without centroids.
result Kauri often outperforms existing unsupervised clustering methods, especially with non-linear kernels.
New method embeds phylogenetic trees for clustering, recovering evolutionary relationships.
problem Lack of a meaningful way to embed phylogenetic trees into a vector space.
method Split-weight embedding to fit clustering algorithms to phylogenetic trees.
result Split-weight embedding recovers meaningful evolutionary relationships in simulated and real data.
Study compares clustering methods for student poverty levels in unsupervised surveys.
problem Identifying impoverished students in unsupervised survey data.
method Multiple clustering techniques (k-means, k-modes, hierarchical clustering) applied to student survey data.
result Fuzzy logic used for data cleaning and organizing, identifying most viable clustering method for survey data.
We study a variant of the variational autoencoder model (VAE) with a Gaussian mixture as a prior distribution, with the goal of performing unsupervised clustering through deep generative models. We observe that the known problem of over-regularisation that has been shown to arise in regular VAEs also manifests itself i…
An unsupervised method clusters patient incident reports for content analysis.
problem Lack of methods to extract interpretable content from electronic healthcare records.
method Combines text-embedding with paragraph vectors and graph-theoretical multiscale community detection.
result Extracts high-intrinsic-consistency groups of patient incident reports.
A novel unsupervised feature selection method using subspace clustering and self-expressive model.
problem Feature selection for large datasets with minimal labeling effort.
method Subspace clustering with adaptive representation learning and regularized regression.
result The method effectively captures sample similarities and discriminative information.
We introduce a framework to leverage knowledge acquired from a repository of (heterogeneous) supervised datasets to new unsupervised datasets. Our perspective avoids the subjectivity inherent in unsupervised learning by reducing it to supervised learning, and provides a principled way to evaluate unsupervised algorithm…
Method corrects bias in regression using simulated data and real-world gene expression data.
problem Bias in estimated effect parameters due to misclassification of class labels.
method Simulation and extrapolation method to correct bias.
result Corrected bias in estimated effect parameters.
Unsupervised clustering reveals novel TBI phenotypes.
problem Inadequate categorization of traumatic brain injury (TBI) based on symptoms.
method Applied unsupervised learning with GLRM feature selection.
result Identified four novel TBI phenotypes with distinct feature profiles.
New unsupervised feature selection method for imbalanced datasets.
problem Feature selection challenges in imbalanced multi-class datasets.
method Distance Rank Score using Spearman's Rank Correlation.
result Outperforms existing methods on clustering problems.
This paper introduces GEMINI, a new metric for unsupervised neural network training that avoids the need for regularizations.
problem The mutual information (MI) as a clustering objective does not lead to satisfactory clusters.
method The authors generalised the mutual information by changing its core distance, introducing the Generalised Mutual Information (GEMINI).
result Some GEMINIs do not require regularizations when training and can automatically select the number of clusters.
This paper introduces GEMINI, a new mutual information metric for unsupervised neural network training.
problem The mutual information (MI) as a clustering objective does not lead to satisfactory clusters.
method The authors generalised MI by changing its core distance, introducing GEMINIs that do not require regularizations and can automatically select the number of clusters.
result GEMINIs can automatically select the number of clusters without requiring a priori knowledge of the number of clusters.
CAGNN learns graph embeddings without labels by clustering and refining graph topology.
problem Learning graph embeddings without labeled data.
method Cluster-aware graph neural network (CAGNN) with self-supervised learning and topology refinement.
result CAGNN achieves significant improvements in node clustering accuracy.
End-to-end clustering without labels using normalized cuts.
problem Clustering unlabeled data without supervision.
method Learning to optimize expected normalized cuts, differentiable loss function.
result State-of-the-art results on various benchmarks, generalizing to new datasets.
Paper explores how unsupervised learning reduces financial crime risks.
problem Identifying high-risk financial groups from complex data.
method Combines clustering and dimensionality reduction techniques.
result KPCA outperforms other techniques in reducing financial crime risks.
Proposes a hierarchical clustering method for positive and negative dissimilarities.
problem Clustering dissimilarities, especially positive and negative.
method Hierarchical correlation clustering followed by tree preserving embedding.
result Performance on various datasets.
Paper proposes a new unsupervised clustering method using attention models.
problem Unsupervised community detection on graphs.
method Optimizes soft modularity loss on Bethe Hessian embeddings.
result Model performs competitively with classical and GNN methods.
In this paper, a similarity-driven cluster merging method is proposed for unsuper-vised fuzzy clustering. The cluster merging method is used to resolve the problem of cluster validation. Starting with an overspecified number of clusters in the data, pairs of similar clusters are merged based on the proposed similarity-…
Develops a new unsupervised clustering method using Variational Information Bottleneck and Gaussian Mixture Model.
problem Unsupervised clustering of unlabeled data.
method Combines Variational Information Bottleneck and Gaussian Mixture Model in a deep neural network framework.
result Derives a new bound on the cost function and provides an algorithm for efficient computation.
The paper challenges the validity of cluster validity measures in unsupervised learning.
problem The validity of cluster validity measures in selecting optimal clusterings.
method The authors investigate the use of cluster validity measures as objective functions in unsupervised learning and introduce a new variant of the Dunn index.
result Many cluster validity measures promote clusterings that do not match expert knowledge well.
Researchers use clustering to differentiate COVID-19 lung scans.
problem Identifying infected individuals with COVID-19.
method Applied unsupervised clustering techniques using PCA, K-Means++, and RCC.
result KM++ and RCC algorithms improved in clustering COVID-19 lung scans.
DGC clusters data with side-information for better prediction.
problem Improving clustering strategies through better prediction performance.
method Deep Goal-Oriented Clustering (DGC) framework that clusters data using supervision and unsupervised modeling.
result Achieves prediction accuracies comparable to state-of-the-art, while learning congruent clustering strategies.
Proposes DC3-GAN for diverse unsupervised conditional generation.
problem Low diversity in unsupervised conditional generation.
method Integrates encoder-generator pair with generator-encoder pair to enhance diversity.
result Improves clustering performance and disentanglement of latent variables.
The study uses unsupervised machine learning to identify top European football teams.
problem Selecting teams for the new European football Super League.
method Used Laplacian eigenmaps clustering on performance data.
result Successfully identified four clusters of teams based on performance metrics.
Unsupervised learning of time series data, also known as temporal clustering, is a challenging problem in machine learning. Here we propose a novel algorithm, Deep Temporal Clustering (DTC), to naturally integrate dimensionality reduction and temporal clustering into a single end-to-end learning framework, fully unsupe…
Unsupervised method selects genes for tumor subtype discovery.
problem High-dimensional tumor gene expression data with noisy variables and heterogeneity.
method Autoencoders for latent space learning, Multiple Kernel Learning for feature selection, clustering.
result Lower redundancy and better clustering performance compared to benchmarks.
New methods identify local clusters in graphs with few labels.
problem Identifying specific substructures in large graphs without additional structural information.
method Random sampling, diffusion, and overlap analysis of local clusters.
result Proves the correctness of the proposed methods and achieves state-of-the-art results.
PET-TURTLE improves clustering accuracy for imbalanced data.
problem Imbalanced data causes clustering errors.
method Generalizes cost function and introduces sparse logits.
result PET-TURTLE enhances overall clustering accuracy for imbalanced data.
This paper reviews weighted clustering ensemble methods.
problem Improving clustering results from individual methods.
method Different types of weights and approaches to determining weight values.
result Unified framework for selecting appropriate weighting mechanisms.
RAEUFS selects features from data without labels, improving robustness to outliers.
problem Feature selection in high-dimensional data, especially in the presence of outliers.
method RAEUFS uses a deep autoencoder to learn nonlinear feature representations, improving robustness to outliers.
result RAEUFS outperforms state-of-the-art UFS methods in both clean and outlier-contaminated data settings.
This article reviews and compares clustering algorithms for large datasets.
problem Detecting patterns in large unlabeled data.
method Examines and compares various clustering algorithms.
result Shows strengths and weaknesses of clustering techniques based on dataset size.
A new clustering framework using fixed points for data analysis.
problem Lack of unified understanding and application of clustering algorithms in data analysis.
method Restated model-based clustering using fixed point theory, iteratively constructing contraction maps to find cluster centers.
result Unified clustering framework reveals convergence mechanisms and interconnections among clustering algorithms.
CURE extracts relations without supervision by clustering similar entity pairs.
problem Extracting relations unsupervised without considering sentence correlations.
method CURE uses Encoder-Decoder architecture for self-supervised learning and clustering similar relations.
result CURE outperforms state-of-the-art models on NYT and UNPC datasets.
A new method clusters hyperspectral images using spatially regularized diffusion.
problem Clustering hyperspectral images effectively.
method Spatially regularized random walks and diffusion geometry.
result The method outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms on real data.
New clustering algorithm uses persistent homology for space-time data.
problem Clustering space-time data without labeled examples.
method Persistent homology for topological data analysis, analyzing data at multiple resolutions.
result The algorithm distinguishes true features from noise based on persistence.
A new clustering method using deep neural networks with size constraints.
problem Clustering high-dimensional data like images, especially when similarity is not well captured by Euclidean distance.
method Rewriting k-means as an optimal transport task, adding entropic regularization, and introducing constraints on cluster sizes. result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art clustering methods in unsupervised accuracy.
Discriminative clustering learns from both labeled and unlabeled data.
problem Clustering complex datasets with limited labeled data.
method Gradient-based stochastic training and optimal transport with entropic regularization.
result The method can learn feature representations even in fully unsupervised settings.
Graph InfoClust learns node representations by capturing cluster-level information, improving graph mining tasks.
problem Leveraging cluster-level node information for unsupervised graph representation learning.
method Graph InfoClust (GIC) uses a differentiable K-means method to compute clusters and jointly optimizes mutual information between nodes of the same cluster.
result GIC outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various downstream tasks with a 0.9% to 6.1% gain.
A new framework learns clustering and dimensionality reduction together.
problem Challenges in clustering high-dimensional data.
method Gradient-based manifold optimization for joint learning.
result Better performance compared to existing clustering algorithms.
Neuromorphic column performs online unsupervised clustering.
problem Real-time clustering of streaming data.
method Localized, spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) neural column.
result Prototype column performs similarly to k-means clustering.
New clustering method considers causal fairness to avoid bias.
problem Clustering algorithms can unintentionally propagate unfair disparities.
method Integrates causal fairness metrics into clustering algorithms.
result Demonstrates efficacy on datasets with known unfair biases.