Structural deep multi-view clustering with integrated abstraction and detail.

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

Deep multi-view clustering, which can obtain complementary information from different views, has received considerable attention in recent years. Although some efforts have been made and achieve decent performances, most of them overlook the structural information and are susceptible to poor quality views, which may seriously restrict the capacity for clustering. To this end, we propose Structural deep Multi-View Clustering with integrated abstraction and detail (SMVC). Specifically, multi-layer perceptrons are used to extract features from specific views, which are then concatenated to form the global features. Besides, a global target distribution is constructed and guides the soft cluster assignments of specific views. In addition to the exploitation of the top-level abstraction, we also design the mining of the underlying details. We construct instance-level contrastive learning using high-order adjacency matrices, which has an equivalent effect to graph attention network and reduces feature redundancy. By integrating the top-level abstraction and underlying detail into a unified framework, our model can jointly optimize the cluster assignments and feature embeddings. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets have demonstrated that the proposed SMVC consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.

Authors

  • Bowei Chen
    School of Information Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, 224051, China. Electronic address: chenboweiedu@163.com.
  • Sen Xu
    National Medical Center for Major Public Health Events, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430000, China.
  • Heyang Xu
    School of Information Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, 224051, China.
  • Xuesheng Bian
    Fujian Key Laboratory of Sensing and Computing for Smart City, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China. Electronic address: xsbian@stu.xmu.edu.cn.
  • Naixuan Guo
    School of Information Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, 224051, China.
  • Xiufang Xu
    School of Information Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, 224051, China.
  • Xiaopeng Hua
    School of Information Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, 224051, China.
  • Tian Zhou
    Jingtai Technology Co. Ltd Floor 4, No. 9, Yifenghua Industrial Zone, 91 Huaning Road, Longhua District Shenzhen Guangdong Province 518109 China.