The area of constrained clustering has been extensively explored by researchers and used by practitioners. Constrained clustering formulations exist for popular algorithms such as k-means, mixture models, and spectral clustering but have several limitations. A fundamental strength of deep learning is its flexibility, a…
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We present a novel clustering approach for moving object trajectories that are constrained by an underlying road network. The approach builds a similarity graph based on these trajectories then uses modularity-optimization hiearchical graph clustering to regroup trajectories with similar profiles. Our experimental stud…
Unified framework for clustering with sparse convex combinations.
problem Challenges in subspace clustering with limited labelled data.
method Spectral-based sparse subspace representation with extensions to constrained and active learning.
result Effective and competitive clustering results on simulated and real data.
Constrained clustering has been well-studied for algorithms such as -means and hierarchical clustering. However, how to satisfy many constraints in these algorithmic settings has been shown to be intractable. One alternative to encode many constraints is to use spectral clustering, which remains a developing area. I…
An important form of prior information in clustering comes in form of cannot-link and must-link constraints. We present a generalization of the popular spectral clustering technique which integrates such constraints. Motivated by the recently proposed -spectral clustering for the unconstrained problem, our method is…
Proposes ConstraintMatch for semi-supervised clustering with unconstrained data.
problem Leveraging unconstrained data alongside constraints for clustering models.
method Semi-supervised context with pseudo-constraining and pseudo-labeling mechanisms.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of ConstraintMatch over baselines.
The (constrained) minimization of a ratio of set functions is a problem frequently occurring in clustering and community detection. As these optimization problems are typically NP-hard, one uses convex or spectral relaxations in practice. While these relaxations can be solved globally optimally, they are often too loos…
Data aggregation improves HAC for resource-constrained systems.
problem Resource constraints in embedded systems limit HAC's applicability.
method Data aggregation with BETULA algorithm reduces memory and runtime requirements.
result HAC can be applied to large datasets on resource-constrained systems.
We study constrained clustering, where constraints guide the clustering process. In existing works, two categories of constraints have been widely explored, namely pairwise and cardinality constraints. Pairwise constraints enforce the cluster labels of two instances to be the same (must-link constraints) or different (…
Size Matters: Cardinality-Constrained Clustering and Outlier Detection via Conic Optimizationmath.OC
Plain vanilla K-means clustering has proven to be successful in practice, yet it suffers from outlier sensitivity and may produce highly unbalanced clusters. To mitigate both shortcomings, we formulate a joint outlier detection and clustering problem, which assigns a prescribed number of datapoints to an auxiliary outl…
CCC clusters with controlled spread, outperforming standard methods.
problem Compact and structured clustering with spread control.
method Constrained Centroid Clustering using Lagrangian formulation.
result CCC achieves more compact clusters with reduced radial spread.
Given the widespread popularity of spectral clustering (SC) for partitioning graph data, we study a version of constrained SC in which we try to incorporate the fairness notion proposed by Chierichetti et al. (2017). According to this notion, a clustering is fair if every demographic group is approximately proportional…
On consistency of constrained spectral clustering under representation-aware stochastic block modelstat.ML
New method finds balanced clusters in graphs using auxiliary information.
problem Finding balanced clusters in graphs with population-level constraints.
method Proposes individual-level balancing constraint and develops spectral clustering algorithms.
result Establishes first statistical consistency result for constrained spectral clustering.
We suggest using the max-norm as a convex surrogate constraint for clustering. We show how this yields a better exact cluster recovery guarantee than previously suggested nuclear-norm relaxation, and study the effectiveness of our method, and other related convex relaxations, compared to other clustering approaches.
The problem of multiple surface clustering is a challenging task, particularly when the surfaces intersect. Available methods such as Isomap fail to capture the true shape of the surface nearby the intersection and result in incorrect clustering. The Isomap algorithm uses the shortest path between points. The main draw…
The high dimensionality of hyperspectral images often results in the degradation of clustering performance. Due to the powerful ability of deep feature extraction and non-linear feature representation, the clustering algorithm based on deep learning has become a hot research topic in the field of hyperspectral remote s…
We outline a new approach for solving optimization problems which enforce triangle inequalities on output variables. We refer to this as metric-constrained optimization, and give several examples where problems of this form arise in machine learning applications and theoretical approximation algorithms for graph cluste…
New algorithm solves large cardinality-constrained clustering problems.
problem Optimizing clustering with cardinality constraints.
method Branch-and-cut technique with SDP relaxation and polyhedral cuts.
result Solves real-world instances 10 times larger than previous methods.
Even though clustering trajectory data attracted considerable attention in the last few years, most of prior work assumed that moving objects can move freely in an euclidean space and did not consider the eventual presence of an underlying road network and its influence on evaluating the similarity between trajectories…
The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is an iterative method for finding maximum likelihood estimates when data are incomplete or are treated as being incomplete. The EM algorithm and its variants are commonly used for parameter estimation in applications of mixture models for clustering and classification. This …
We examine overlapping clustering schemes with functorial constraints, in the spirit of Carlsson--Memoli. This avoids issues arising from the chaining required by partition-based methods. Our principal result shows that any clustering functor is naturally constrained to refine single-linkage clusters and be refined by …
New algorithm clusters data and learns kernels without relaxing constraints.
problem Learning kernels or distance metrics from pairwise constraints without losing generalization.
method Joint clustering and kernel learning without relaxing constraints.
result Outperforms existing approaches on diverse datasets.
Consistent spectral clustering with fairness constraints on representation graphs.
problem Finding balanced clusters in similarity graphs with fairness constraints.
method Developed variants of unnormalized and normalized spectral clustering for fair planted partitions.
result Consistency results for constrained spectral clustering under fair planted partitions.
Multi-view clustering is an important and fundamental problem. Many multi-view subspace clustering methods have been proposed, and most of them assume that all views share a same coefficient matrix. However, the underlying information of multi-view data are not fully exploited under this assumption, since the coefficie…
ANN clusters multi-view data by agglomerating subviews and avoiding postprocessing.
problem Challenges in multi-view clustering, especially subview agglomeration.
method Agglomerative Neural Network (ANN) using Constrained Laplacian Rank.
result ANN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in multi-view clustering.
Multi-cell cooperative processing with limited backhaul traffic is studied for cellular uplinks. Aiming at reduced backhaul overhead, a sparsity-regularized multi-cell receive-filter design problem is formulated. Both unstructured distributed cooperation as well as clustered cooperation, in which base station groups ar…
Traditional nearest points methods use all the samples in an image set to construct a single convex or affine hull model for classification. However, strong artificial features and noisy data may be generated from combinations of training samples when significant intra-class variations and/or noise occur in the image s…
Reconstruction based subspace clustering methods compute a self reconstruction matrix over the samples and use it for spectral clustering to obtain the final clustering result. Their success largely relies on the assumption that the underlying subspaces are independent, which, however, does not always hold in the appli…
Graph-based clustering methods have demonstrated the effectiveness in various applications. Generally, existing graph-based clustering methods first construct a graph to represent the input data and then partition it to generate the clustering result. However, such a stepwise manner may make the constructed graph not f…
Paper proposes a method to improve graph clustering by integrating node textual metadata with node signals in GGMs.
problem Graph learning in Gaussian Graphical Models with auxiliary node metadata.
method Laplacian-constrained Gaussian Graphical Models with majorization-minimization algorithm.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches that use either signals or metadata alone.
Robust clustering of high-dimensional data is an important topic because clusters in real datasets are often heavy-tailed and/or asymmetric. Traditional approaches to model-based clustering often fail for high dimensional data, e.g., due to the number of free covariance parameters. A parametrization of the component sc…
This paper is about variable selection, clustering and estimation in an unsupervised high-dimensional setting. Our approach is based on fitting constrained Gaussian mixture models, where we learn the number of clusters and the set of relevant variables using a generalized Bayesian posterior with a sparsity indu…
A family of parsimonious Gaussian cluster-weighted models is presented. This family concerns a multivariate extension to cluster-weighted modelling that can account for correlations between multivariate responses. Parsimony is attained by constraining parts of an eigen-decomposition imposed on the component covariance …
The clustering algorithms that view each object data as a single sample drawn from a certain distribution, Gaussian distribution, for example, has been a hot topic for decades. Many clustering algorithms: such as k-means and spectral clustering are proposed based on the single sample assumption. However, in real life, …
Recently, clustering moving object trajectories kept gaining interest from both the data mining and machine learning communities. This problem, however, was studied mainly and extensively in the setting where moving objects can move freely on the euclidean space. In this paper, we study the problem of clustering trajec…
Clustering using neural networks has recently demonstrated promising performance in machine learning and computer vision applications. However, the performance of current approaches is limited either by unsupervised learning or their dependence on large set of labeled data samples. In this paper, we propose ClusterNet …
Proposes a new method for clustering tasks in multi-task learning.
problem Improving performance of multiple related prediction tasks.
method Semisoft task clustering approach with a three-step algorithm.
result Validation of the proposed approach on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Spatially constrained Gaussian mixture models reduce covariance complexity.
problem High dimensionality in finite mixture models for spatial data.
method Spatial covariance constraint with only four free parameters.
result Improves clustering of multi-way spatial data and inference of spatial patterns.
K-means is a classical clustering algorithm with wide applications. However, soft K-means, or fuzzy c-means at m=1, remains unsolved since 1981. To address this challenging open problem, we propose a novel clustering model, i.e. Probabilistic K-Means (PKM), which is also a nonlinear programming model constrained on lin…
Pipeline decomposes portfolio optimization problems into smaller, solvable subproblems.
problem Large-scale portfolio optimization with constraints.
method Decomposition pipeline with preprocessing, clustering, and risk rebalancing.
result Pipeline reduces problem size by 80% and computation time.
Clustering in high-dimensional spaces is nowadays a recurrent problem in many scientific domains but remains a difficult task from both the clustering accuracy and the result understanding points of view. This paper presents a discriminative latent mixture (DLM) model which fits the data in a latent orthonormal discrim…
A new method uncovers intrinsic data structures for unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Learning domain-aligned features can damage intrinsic target discrimination.
method Structurally Regularized Deep Clustering (H-SRDC) integrating structural source regularization.
result H-SRDC outperforms existing methods in image classification and semantic segmentation.
Consensus clustering fuses diverse basic partitions (i.e., clustering results obtained from conventional clustering methods) into an integrated one, which has attracted increasing attention in both academic and industrial areas due to its robust and effective performance. Tremendous research efforts have been made to t…
In Bipartite Correlation Clustering (BCC) we are given a complete bipartite graph with `+' and `-' edges, and we seek a vertex clustering that maximizes the number of agreements: the number of all `+' edges within clusters plus all `-' edges cut across clusters. BCC is known to be NP-hard. We present a novel approx…
NN-EVCLUS uses neural networks to cluster data with uncertainty.
problem Clustering data with uncertainty and handling outliers.
method NN-EVCLUS learns a neural network to map attributes to mass functions, minimizing discrepancy between dissimilarities and conflict.
result NN-EVCLUS outperforms existing methods in clustering tasks.
We introduce a principled and theoretically sound spectral method for -way clustering in signed graphs, where the affinity measure between nodes takes either positive or negative values. Our approach is motivated by social balance theory, where the task of clustering aims to decompose the network into disjoint group…
Unified model for reducing dimensions and clustering high-dimensional data.
problem High-dimensional data clustering and dimensionality reduction.
method Hierarchical mixtures of Gaussians (HMoGs) with closed-form likelihood and inference.
result Efficiently models hundreds of latent dimensions, improving clustering performance.
Most existing approaches address multi-view subspace clustering problem by constructing the affinity matrix on each view separately and afterwards propose how to extend spectral clustering algorithm to handle multi-view data. This paper presents an approach to multi-view subspace clustering that learns a joint subspace…