Title
Deep Clustering With Sample-Assignment Invariance Prior
Abstract
Most popular clustering methods map raw image data into a projection space in which the clustering assignment is obtained with the vanilla k-means approach. In this article, we discovered a novel prior, namely, there exists a common invariance when assigning an image sample to clusters using different metrics. In short, different distance metrics will lead to similar soft clustering assignments on the manifold. Based on such a novel prior, we propose a novel clustering method by minimizing the discrepancy between pairwise sample assignments for each data point. To the best of our knowledge, this could be the first work to reveal the sample-assignment invariance prior based on the idea of treating labels as ideal representations. Furthermore, the proposed method is one of the first end-to-end clustering approaches, which jointly learns clustering assignment and representation. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method is remarkably superior to 16 state-of-the-art clustering methods on five image data sets in terms of four evaluation metrics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TNNLS.2019.2958324
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Label as representation,least square regression,low-rank representation,subspace clustering
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
2162-237X
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
25
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
xi peng1966.39
Hongyuan Zhu210916.59
Jiashi Feng32165140.81
Chunhua Shen44817234.19
Haixian Zhang5141.59
Joey Tianyi Zhou635438.60