Title
Privileged information for data clustering
Abstract
Many machine learning algorithms assume that all input samples are independently and identically distributed from some common distribution on either the input space X, in the case of unsupervised learning, or the input and output space XxY in the case of supervised and semi-supervised learning. In the last number of years the relaxation of this assumption has been explored and the importance of incorporation of additional information within machine learning algorithms became more apparent. Traditionally such fusion of information was the domain of semi-supervised learning. More recently the inclusion of knowledge from separate hypothetical spaces has been proposed by Vapnik as part of the supervised setting. In this work we are interested in exploring Vapnik's idea of 'master-class' learning and the associated learning using 'privileged' information, however within the unsupervised setting. Adoption of the advanced supervised learning paradigm for the unsupervised setting instigates investigation into the difference between privileged and technical data. By means of our proposed aRi-MAX method stability of the K-Means algorithm is improved and identification of the best clustering solution is achieved on an artificial dataset. Subsequently an information theoretic dot product based algorithm called P-Dot is proposed. This method has the ability to utilize a wide variety of clustering techniques, individually or in combination, while fusing privileged and technical data for improved clustering. Application of the P-Dot method to the task of digit recognition confirms our findings in a real-world scenario.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.ins.2011.04.025
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
additional information,technical data,privileged information,clustering solution,clustering technique,information theoretic,unsupervised learning,semi-supervised learning,improved clustering,p-dot method,advanced supervised learning paradigm,clustering,data clustering,machine learning
Online machine learning,Competitive learning,Stability (learning theory),Semi-supervised learning,Active learning (machine learning),Computer science,Supervised learning,Unsupervised learning,Artificial intelligence,Conceptual clustering,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1305.7454
0020-0255
27
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.39
21
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Feyereisl113110.20
Uwe Aickelin21679153.63