DAC learns to cluster datasets efficiently using neural networks.
problem Efficient clustering of datasets without prior knowledge.
method Deep amortized clustering (DAC) using neural networks to learn clustering.
result DAC efficiently and accurately clusters new datasets from the same distribution.
MC-GMENN improves neural networks for clustered data using Monte Carlo methods.
problem Improving neural network performance on clustered data with correlations.
method MC-GMENN employs Monte Carlo methods to train generalized mixed effects neural networks.
result MC-GMENN outperforms existing models in generalization and quantifying inter-cluster variance.
Meta-learning neural networks for better clustering representations.
problem Improving clustering performance with appropriate representations.
method Meta-learning method that trains neural networks for representations using VB inference with an infinite Gaussian mixture model.
result The method achieves higher clustering performance than existing methods.
Neural clustering learns time series affinity from statistical features.
problem Challenging time series clustering with unknown cluster shapes and structures.
method Amortized neural inference using statistical features.
result Competitive clustering accuracy without manual specification of cluster shapes.
DMAE uses neural networks to cluster data with flexible dissimilarity functions.
problem Clustering data with complex dissimilarity functions.
method Integrates a dissimilarity mixture model into deep learning architectures.
result DMAE achieves competitive clustering accuracy compared to other methods.
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.
A neural-network model clusters subjects based on their lifetime distributions.
problem Clustering subjects into clusters based on their lifetime distributions.
method A neural-network based lifetime clustering model that maximizes divergence between empirical lifetime distributions of clusters.
result Significantly better lifetime clusters compared to competing approaches.
C-FAR automates clustering assessment for neural tracking.
problem Manual assessment of clusters by humans is slow and impractical for large datasets.
method C-FAR uses automated feedback queries to select optimal clustering from multiple algorithms.
result C-FAR produces near-perfect clustering on simulated neural data.
A recent trend in machine learning has been to enrich learned models with the ability to explain their own predictions. The emerging field of Explainable AI (XAI) has so far mainly focused on supervised learning, in particular, deep neural network classifiers. In many practical problems however, label information is no…
The paper compares clustering methods for improving time series forecasting accuracy.
problem Improving time series forecasting accuracy using neural networks.
method Investigates feature-based and distance-based clustering methods for time series forecasting.
result Feature-based clustering outperforms distance-based clustering in terms of speed and efficiency.
In this paper, we study two challenging problems in explainable AI (XAI) and data clustering. The first is how to directly design a neural network with inherent interpretability, rather than giving post-hoc explanations of a black-box model. The second is implementing discrete k-means with a differentiable neural net…
Parallel neural networks estimate TVD for merging over-clustered datasets.
problem Merging over-partitioned clusters in unsupervised learning.
method Use neural networks to estimate TVD between clusters in parallel.
result Neural network estimates of TVD lead to better merge decisions.
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.
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.
Advances neural tri-factorization for clustering and discordance analysis of multi-typed data.
problem Challenges in analyzing heterogeneous, multimodal relational data.
method Deep collective matrix tri-factorization for spectral clustering and cluster association learning.
result Demonstrates efficacy over previous non-neural approaches in clustering and discordance analysis.
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.
DC-NAS improves neural architecture search by clustering and evaluating sub-networks.
problem Inaccurate evaluation of neural architectures in large search spaces.
method Divide-and-Conquer approach: feature representation, clustering, and evaluation of clusters.
result Achieved 75.1% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, surpassing state-of-the-art methods.
A promising paradigm for achieving highly efficient deep neural networks is the idea of evolutionary deep intelligence, which mimics biological evolution processes to progressively synthesize more efficient networks. A crucial design factor in evolutionary deep intelligence is the genetic encoding scheme used to simula…
Cluster analysis aims at separating patients into phenotypically heterogenous groups and defining therapeutically homogeneous patient subclasses. It is an important approach in data-driven disease classification and subtyping. Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a syndrome due to sudden decrease of coronary artery blood f…
Graph clustering remains challenging for GNNs, but a new method improves performance.
problem Graph clustering is difficult for GNNs, especially in noisy data.
method Developed Deep Modularity Networks (DMoN) inspired by modularity measure.
result DMoN produces high-quality clusters with over 40% improvement over other methods.
S3C2 uses Siamese networks for semi-supervised clustering with pairwise constraints.
problem Semi-supervised clustering with pairwise constraints.
method S3C2 decomposes SSC into two classification tasks: first, using Siamese networks to label unlabeled pairs; second, using the labeled dataset for clustering.
result S3C2 outperforms existing SSC methods on various datasets.
NeuralFLoC unifies registration and clustering of functional data, overcoming phase variation challenges.
problem Challenges in clustering functional data due to phase variation and temporal misalignment.
method NeuralFLoC uses Neural ODE-driven diffeomorphic flows and spectral clustering for joint registration and clustering.
result NeuralFLoC effectively disentangles phase and amplitude variation, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
New method reduces clustering time and improves accuracy.
problem High time and space complexity in spectral clustering.
method Approximate spectral clustering using GNG network topology.
result Equal or better clustering performance than traditional SC.
Spatially positioned neurons in neural networks mimic biological systems.
problem Creating neural networks that can perform multiple tasks efficiently.
method Added spatial positions and proximity penalties to artificial neurons.
result Neurons naturally cluster, each responsible for a specific task.
In this paper, we have proposed a deep quantum SVM formulation, and further demonstrated a quantum-clustering framework based on the quantum deep SVM formulation, deep convolutional neural networks, and quantum K-Means clustering. We have investigated the run time computational complexity of the proposed quantum deep c…
New method explains GNNs using power iteration clustering.
problem Mysterious mechanism of message passing in GNNs.
method Subspace power iteration clustering (SPIC) models.
result Message passing in GNNs can be understood through power iteration.
NOs can learn any finite collection of classes in functional data.
problem Learning finite collections of classes in infinite-dimensional spaces.
method Proved sample-based neural operators can learn any finite collection of classes in an infinite-dimensional reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
result NOs can learn any finite collection of classes in an infinite-dimensional reproducing kernel Hilbert space, even when the classes are not convex or connected.
CwA optimizes search performance by jointly learning a balanced database partition and a neural probing function.
problem Suboptimal search performance due to mismatched database and query distributions.
method CwA jointly learns a balanced database partition and a neural probing function to optimize search performance directly for the query distribution.
result CwA achieves up to 4.7x throughput over state-of-the-art methods at equal recall.
Clustering methods based on deep neural networks have proven promising for clustering real-world data because of their high representational power. In this paper, we propose a systematic taxonomy of clustering methods that utilize deep neural networks. We base our taxonomy on a comprehensive review of recent work and v…
DIGRAC clusters directed graphs using flow imbalance, outperforming existing methods.
problem Clustering directed networks without label supervision.
method DIGRAC uses a graph neural network with a novel imbalance loss for directed flow imbalance.
result DIGRAC outperforms 10 state-of-the-art methods on directed graph clustering.
This paper presents a neural network-based end-to-end clustering framework. We design a novel strategy to utilize the contrastive criteria for pushing data-forming clusters directly from raw data, in addition to learning a feature embedding suitable for such clustering. The network is trained with weak labels, specific…
Discriminative clustering uses mutual information to cluster data.
problem Clustering data into cohesive groups.
method Discriminative clustering using mutual information.
result Mutual information has been a cornerstone of discriminative clustering.
The hybrid clustering-classification neural network is proposed. This network allows increasing a quality of information processing under the condition of overlapping classes due to the rational choice of a learning rate parameter and introducing a special procedure of fuzzy reasoning in the clustering process, which o…
Spectral clustering (SC) is a popular clustering technique to find strongly connected communities on a graph. SC can be used in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to implement pooling operations that aggregate nodes belonging to the same cluster. However, the eigendecomposition of the Laplacian is expensive and, since cluste…
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 …
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≤k≤kmax, a distribution over the individual cluster assignm…
Study automates feature selection and clustering for HFT stock price forecasting.
problem Manual feature selection and clustering for high-frequency trading (HFT) stock price forecasting.
method Dual competitive feature importance mechanism and clustering via shallow neural network topology.
result Enhanced forecasting ability of the RBFNN regressor through automated feature selection and clustering.
A new deep clustering model learns both clustering and embedding simultaneously.
problem Optimizing autoencoders for clustering and embedding separately.
method Integrating clustering module into a deep autoencoder.
result Joint learning of clustering and embedding improves performance.
New ensemble methods improve time series forecasting accuracy.
problem Global Forecasting Models (GFM) lack localisation for heterogeneous datasets.
method Ensemble techniques with clustering and varied GFM models.
result Significantly higher accuracy achieved compared to baseline models.
Hybrid diarization framework handles overlapped speech and long recordings.
problem Challenges in clustering-based and end-to-end neural diarization approaches.
method Proposes a hybrid framework combining clustering and end-to-end neural diarization.
result Significantly better performance on long recordings with overlapped speech.
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.
The study finds dense clusters of solutions in a simple neural network model, providing bounds for their existence.
problem Exploring the existence of minimizers in a simple neural network model with binary weights.
method Formulating the learning problem as a constraint satisfaction problem and computing moment bounds for the existence of solutions.
result First rigorous steps toward proving the existence of dense clusters of solutions in certain parameter regimes.
Interpreting the prediction mechanism of complex models is currently one of the most important tasks in the machine learning field, especially with layered neural networks, which have achieved high predictive performance with various practical data sets. To reveal the global structure of a trained neural network in an …
New method optimizes insurance portfolios using neural networks.
problem Optimizing insurance portfolios using clustering.
method Neural networks to optimize model points for grouping contracts.
result Superiority of method compared to K-means clustering.
Twitter has been a prominent social media platform for mining population-level health data and accurate clustering of health-related tweets into topics is important for extracting relevant health insights. In this work, we propose deep convolutional autoencoders for learning compact representations of health-related tw…
Study shows neural ODEs generalize well on synthetic graphs but struggle with degree heterogeneity and clustering.
problem Understanding neural ODEs on complex networks, especially with varying graph sizes and structures.
method Synthetic data from five dynamical systems on graphs, using Barabási-Barzel form vector fields.
result Degree heterogeneity and dynamical system type are primary factors affecting neural ODEs' generalization.
New clustering algorithm for time series data using RNN and variational Bayes.
problem Lack of generative model-based clustering methods for time series data.
method Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with variational Bayes method.
result Robustness against phase shift, amplitude, and signal length variations.
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.