Title
M3IC: maximum margin multiple instance clustering
Abstract
Clustering, classification, and regression, are three major research topics in machine learning. So far, much work has been conducted in solving multiple instance classification and multiple instance regression problems, where supervised training patterns are given as bags and each bag consists of some instances. But the research on unsupervised multiple instance clustering is still limited. This paper formulates a novel Maximum Margin Multiple Instance Clustering (M3IC) problem for the multiple instance clustering task. To avoid solving a nonconvex optimization problem directly, M3IC is further relaxed, which enables an efficient optimization solution with a combination of Constrained Concave-Convex Procedure (CCCP) and the Cutting Plane method. Furthermore, this paper analyzes some important properties of the proposed method and the relationship between the proposed method and some other related ones. An extensive set of empirical results demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method against existing research for both effectiveness and efficiency.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
IJCAI
maximum margin,multiple instance regression problem,nonconvex optimization problem,major research topic,unsupervised multiple instance clustering,Plane method,multiple instance classification,multiple instance,Multiple Instance Clustering,efficient optimization solution,proposed method
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
5
0.42
References 
Authors
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dan Zhang146122.17
Fei Wang21335.29
Luo Si32498169.52
Tao Li47216393.45