In most real world scenarios, experts dispose of limited background knowledge that they can exploit for guiding the analysis process. In this context, semi-supervised clustering can be employed to leverage such knowledge and enable the discovery of clusters that meet the analysts’ expectations. To this end, we propose a semi-supervised deep embedding clustering algorithm that exploits triplet constraints as background knowledge within the whole learning process. The latter consists in a two-stage approach where, initially, a low-dimensional data embedding is computed and, successively, cluster assignment is refined via the introduction of an auxiliary target distribution. Our algorithm is evaluated on real-world benchmarks in comparison with state-of-the-art unsupervised and semi-supervised clustering methods. Experimental results highlight the quality of the proposed framework as well as the added value of the new learnt data representation.

Deep Triplet-Driven Semi-supervised Embedding Clustering

Ienco, Dino
Co-first
;
Pensa, Ruggero G.
Co-first
2019-01-01

Abstract

In most real world scenarios, experts dispose of limited background knowledge that they can exploit for guiding the analysis process. In this context, semi-supervised clustering can be employed to leverage such knowledge and enable the discovery of clusters that meet the analysts’ expectations. To this end, we propose a semi-supervised deep embedding clustering algorithm that exploits triplet constraints as background knowledge within the whole learning process. The latter consists in a two-stage approach where, initially, a low-dimensional data embedding is computed and, successively, cluster assignment is refined via the introduction of an auxiliary target distribution. Our algorithm is evaluated on real-world benchmarks in comparison with state-of-the-art unsupervised and semi-supervised clustering methods. Experimental results highlight the quality of the proposed framework as well as the added value of the new learnt data representation.
2019
DS2019: 22nd International Conference on Discovery Science
Split, Croatia
October 28-30, 2019
Discovery Science. DS 2019.
Springer
11828
220
234
978-3-030-33777-3
978-3-030-33778-0
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-33778-0_18
Deep learning, Constrained clustering, Triplet constraints
Ienco, Dino; Pensa, Ruggero G.
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