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Discriminative clustering with representation learning with any ratio of labeled to unlabeled data

Jones, Corinne  
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Roulet, Vincent
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Harchaoui, Zaid
February 15, 2022
Statistics And Computing

We present a discriminative clustering approach in which the feature representation can be learned from data and moreover leverage labeled data. Representation learning can give a similarity-based clustering method the ability to automatically adapt to an underlying, yet hidden, geometric structure of the data. The proposed approach augments the DIFFRAC method with a representation learning capability, using a gradient-based stochastic training algorithm and an optimal transport algorithm with entropic regularization to perform the cluster assignment step. The resulting method is evaluated on several real datasets when varying the ratio of labeled data to unlabeled data and thereby interpolating between the fully unsupervised regime and the fully supervised regime. The experimental results suggest that the proposed method can learn powerful feature representations even in the fully unsupervised regime and can leverage even small amounts of labeled data to improve the feature representations and to obtain better clusterings of complex datasets.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s11222-021-10067-x
Web of Science ID

WOS:000749210900001

Author(s)
Jones, Corinne  
Roulet, Vincent
Harchaoui, Zaid
Date Issued

2022-02-15

Published in
Statistics And Computing
Volume

32

Issue

1

Start page

17

Subjects

Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Statistics & Probability

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Computer Science

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Mathematics

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discriminative clustering

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unsupervised learning

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semi-supervised learning

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representation learning

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REVIEWED

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February 14, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/185353
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