Dual self-paced multi-view clustering.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

By utilizing the complementary information from multiple views, multi-view clustering (MVC) algorithms typically achieve much better clustering performance than conventional single-view methods. Although in this field, great progresses have been made in past few years, most existing multi-view clustering methods still suffer the following shortcomings: (1) most MVC methods are non-convex and thus are easily stuck into suboptimal local minima; (2) the effectiveness of these methods is sensitive to the existence of noises or outliers; and (3) the qualities of different features and views are usually ignored, which can also influence the clustering result. To address these issues, we propose dual self-paced multi-view clustering (DSMVC) in this paper. Specifically, DSMVC takes advantage of self-paced learning to tackle the non-convex issue. By applying a soft-weighting scheme of self-paced learning for instances, the negative impact caused by noises and outliers can be significantly reduced. Moreover, to alleviate the feature and view quality issues, we develop a novel feature selection approach in a self-paced manner and a weighting term for views. Experimental results on real-world data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Authors

  • Zongmo Huang
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China.
  • Yazhou Ren
    SMILE Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China.
  • Xiaorong Pu
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, P.R.China;Health Big Data Institute of Big Data Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, P.R.China.
  • Lili Pan
    School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China; SMILE Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China.
  • DeZhong Yao
    The Key Laboratory for Neuro Information of Ministry of Education, Center for Information in Bio Medicine, High-Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
  • Guoxian Yu
    College of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.