Li Miaomiao, Wang Siwei, Liu Xinwang, Liu Suyuan
IEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst. 2024 Jan;35(1):300-310. doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3173742.
Multiview clustering (MVC) seamlessly combines homogeneous information and allocates data samples into different communities, which has shown significant effectiveness for unsupervised tasks in recent years. However, some views of samples may be incomplete due to unfinished data collection or storage failure in reality, which refers to the so-called incomplete multiview clustering (IMVC). Despite many IMVC pioneer frameworks have been introduced, the majority of their approaches are limited by the cubic time complexity and quadratic space complexity which heavily prevent them from being employed in large-scale IMVC tasks. Moreover, the massively introduced hyper-parameters in existing methods are not practical in real applications. Inspired by recent unsupervised multiview prototype progress, we propose a novel parameter-free and scalable incomplete multiview clustering framework with the prototype graph termed PSIMVC-PG to solve the aforementioned issues. Different from existing full pair-wise graph studying, we construct an incomplete prototype graph to flexibly capture the relations between existing instances and discriminate prototypes. Moreover, PSIMVC-PG can directly obtain the prototype graph without pre-process of searching hyper-parameters. We conduct massive experiments on various incomplete multiview tasks, and the performances show clear advantages over existing methods. The code of PSIMVC-PG can be publicly downloaded at https://github.com/wangsiwei2010/PSIMVC-PG.
多视图聚类(MVC)能够无缝融合同类信息,并将数据样本分配到不同的类别中,近年来在无监督任务中已显示出显著成效。然而,在实际中,由于数据收集未完成或存储失败,部分样本视图可能不完整,这就是所谓的不完全多视图聚类(IMVC)。尽管已经提出了许多IMVC先驱框架,但它们的大多数方法都受到立方时间复杂度和二次空间复杂度的限制,这严重阻碍了它们在大规模IMVC任务中的应用。此外,现有方法中大量引入的超参数在实际应用中并不实用。受近期无监督多视图原型进展的启发,我们提出了一种新颖的、无参数且可扩展的不完全多视图聚类框架,即带有原型图的PSIMVC - PG,以解决上述问题。与现有的全成对图研究不同,我们构建了一个不完全原型图,以灵活捕捉现有实例与判别原型之间的关系。此外,PSIMVC - PG无需搜索超参数的预处理即可直接获得原型图。我们在各种不完全多视图任务上进行了大量实验,性能表现出相对于现有方法的明显优势。PSIMVC - PG的代码可在https://github.com/wangsiwei2010/PSIMVC - PG上公开下载。