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Yazhou Ren

32 accepted papers

2026

Bridging Inter-View and Client Heterogeneity: Federated Multi-View Clustering Under Non-IID Data

IJCAI 2026

Federated multi-view clustering (FedMVC) has been widely used to discover latent structures in distributed multi-view data, but most methods assume independent and identically distributed (IID) data. In practice, non-IID distributions with partial and imbalanced categories cause clients to learn bia

Cited by 0Scholar
2026

Topology-Aware Vision Transformers for Enhanced Scene Recognition

AAAI 2026technical

Scene recognition (SR) is a fundamental task in computer vision (CV). In recent years, Transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable success in scene recognition tasks. Most existing approaches primarily rely on visual features, while failing to effectively model the structural relationships wi

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Views Attention Fusion of Granular-ball Fuzzy Representations Split for Improved Multi-view Clustering

AAAI 2026technical

Multi-View Clustering (MVC) is a pivotal multi-view learning paradigm widely adopted across various fields. Despite recent advances, existing methods primarily focus on enhancing the performance of fused multi-view representation, often neglecting the issue of Representation Degradation (RD) arising

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

An Effective and Secure Federated Multi-View Clustering Method with Information-Theoretic Perspective

ICML 2025poster

Recently, federated multi-view clustering (FedMVC) has gained attention for its ability to mine complementary clustering structures from multiple clients without exposing private data. Existing methods mainly focus on addressing the feature heterogeneity problem brought by views on different clients…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Fusion of Granular-Ball Visual Spatial Representations for Enhanced Facial Expression Recognition

IJCAI 2025

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Despite recent advances, significant challenges remain. Current methods primarily focus on extracting visual representations while overlooking other valuable information. To address this limitation, we propose a novel m

2025

Graph Embedded Contrastive Learning for Multi-View Clustering

IJCAI 2025

Recently, numerous multi-view clustering (MVC) and multi-view graph clustering (MVGC) methods have been proposed. Despite significant progress, they still face two issues: I) MVC and MVGC are often developed independently for multi-view and multi-graph data. They have redundancy but lack a unified m

2025

Multi-View Graph Clustering via Node-Guided Contrastive Encoding

ICML 2025poster

Multi-view clustering has gained significant attention for integrating multi-view information in multimedia applications. With the growing complexity of graph data, multi-view graph clustering (MVGC) has become increasingly important. Existing methods primarily use Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to en…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

VSNet: Focusing on the Linguistic Characteristics of Sign Language

CVPR 2025poster

Sign language is a visual language expressed through complex movements of the upper body. The human skeleton plays a critical role in sign language recognition due to its good separation from the video background. However, mainstream skeleton-based sign language recognition models often overly focus…

2024

Adaptive Feature Imputation with Latent Graph for Deep Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

AAAI 2024technical

In recent years, incomplete multi-view clustering (IMVC), which studies the challenging multi-view clustering problem on missing views, has received growing research interests. Previous IMVC methods suffer from the following issues: (1) the inaccurate imputation for missing data, which leads to subo…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2024

Bridging Gaps: Federated Multi-View Clustering in Heterogeneous Hybrid Views

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recently, federated multi-view clustering (FedMVC) has emerged to explore cluster structures in multi-view data distributed on multiple clients. Many existing approaches tend to assume that clients are isomorphic and all of them belong to either single-view clients or multi-view clients. While these…

2024

Cross-View Contrastive Fusion for Enhanced Molecular Property Prediction

IJCAI 2024poster

Machine learning based molecular property prediction has been a hot topic in the field of computer aided drug discovery (CADD). However, current MPP methods face two prominent challenges: 1) single-view MPP methods do not sufficiently exploit the complementary information of molecular data across mu…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Dynamic Weighted Graph Fusion for Deep Multi-View Clustering

IJCAI 2024poster

By exploring complex graph information hidden in data from multiple views, multi-view clustering based on graph neural network significantly enhances the clustering performance and has drawn increasing attention in recent years. Although considerable progress has been made, most existing GNN based M…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2024

Homophily-Related: Adaptive Hybrid Graph Filter for Multi-View Graph Clustering

AAAI 2024technical

Recently there is a growing focus on graph data, and multi-view graph clustering has become a popular area of research interest. Most of the existing methods are only applicable to homophilous graphs, yet the extensive real-world graph data can hardly fulfill the homophily assumption, where the conn…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2024

Integrating Vision-Language Semantic Graphs in Multi-View Clustering

IJCAI 2024poster

In recent years, a variety of graph learning-based multi-view clustering (MVC) methods have emerged. However, these methods continue to face challenges in extracting latent features from real-world data, particularly in scenarios involving high-resolution color images and high-dimensional features.…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Investigating and Mitigating the Side Effects of Noisy Views for Self-Supervised Clustering Algorithms in Practical Multi-View Scenarios

CVPR 2024poster

Multi-view clustering (MVC) aims at exploring category structures among multi-view data in self-supervised manners. Multiple views provide more information than single views and thus existing MVC methods can achieve satisfactory performance. However their performance might seriously degenerate when…

2024

S2MVTC: a Simple yet Efficient Scalable Multi-View Tensor Clustering

CVPR 2024poster

Anchor-based large-scale multi-view clustering has attracted considerable attention for its effectiveness in handling massive datasets. However current methods mainly seek the consensus embedding feature for clustering by exploring global correlations between anchor graphs or projection matrices.In…

2024

Simple Contrastive Multi-View Clustering with Data-Level Fusion

IJCAI 2024poster

Previous deep multi-view clustering methods usually design un-shared encoders to explore the cluster information among multi-view data, but they are difficult to customize the encoders for individual views and easily increase information loss. To address these issues, we propose a simple yet effecti…

2024

Sparse Bayesian Deep Learning for Cross Domain Medical Image Reconstruction

AAAI 2024technical

Cross domain medical image reconstruction aims to address the issue that deep learning models trained solely on one source dataset might not generalize effectively to unseen target datasets from different hospitals. Some recent methods achieve satisfactory reconstruction performance, but often at th…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2023

A Novel Approach for Effective Multi-View Clustering with Information-Theoretic Perspective

NeurIPS 2023poster

Multi-view clustering (MVC) is a popular technique for improving clustering performance using various data sources. However, existing methods primarily focus on acquiring consistent information while often neglecting the issue of redundancy across multiple views. This study presents a new approach c…

Cited by 52SourcePDFScholar
2023

Deep Multi-view Subspace Clustering with Anchor Graph

IJCAI 2023poster

Deep multi-view subspace clustering (DMVSC) has recently attracted increasing attention due to its promising performance. However, existing DMVSC methods still have two issues: (1) they mainly focus on using autoencoders to nonlinearly embed the data, while the embedding may be suboptimal for cluste…

2023

Dual Label-Guided Graph Refinement for Multi-View Graph Clustering

AAAI 2023technical

With the increase of multi-view graph data, multi-view graph clustering (MVGC) that can discover the hidden clusters without label supervision has attracted growing attention from researchers. Existing MVGC methods are often sensitive to the given graphs, especially influenced by the low quality gra…

2023

MHCN: A Hyperbolic Neural Network Model for Multi-view Hierarchical Clustering

ICCV 2023poster

Multi-view hierarchical clustering (MCHC) plays a pivotal role in comprehending the structures within multi-view data, which hinges on the skillful interaction between hierarchical feature learning and comprehensive representation learning across multiple views. However, existing methods often overl…

Cited by 9PDFScholar
2023

Self-Supervised Graph Attention Networks for Deep Weighted Multi-View Clustering

AAAI 2023technical

As one of the most important research topics in the unsupervised learning field, Multi-View Clustering (MVC) has been widely studied in the past decade and numerous MVC methods have been developed. Among these methods, the recently emerged Graph Neural Networks (GNN) shine a light on modeling both t…

Cited by 42SourcePDFScholar
2023

Self-Weighted Contrastive Learning among Multiple Views for Mitigating Representation Degeneration

NeurIPS 2023poster

Recently, numerous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of contrastive learning (CL), which learns feature representations by pulling in positive samples while pushing away negative samples. Many successes of CL lie in that there exists semantic consistency between data augmentations of the s…

2022

Contrastive Multi-view Hyperbolic Hierarchical Clustering

IJCAI 2022poster

Hierarchical clustering recursively partitions data at an increasingly finer granularity. In real-world applications, multi-view data have become increasingly important. This raises a less investigated problem, i.e., multi-view hierarchical clustering, to better understand the hierarchical structure…

Cited by 39SourcePDFScholar
2022

Deep Incomplete Multi-View Clustering via Mining Cluster Complementarity

AAAI 2022technical

Incomplete multi-view clustering (IMVC) is an important unsupervised approach to group the multi-view data containing missing data in some views. Previous IMVC methods suffer from the following issues: (1) the inaccurate imputation or padding for missing data negatively affects the clustering perfor…

2022

Multi-Level Feature Learning for Contrastive Multi-View Clustering

CVPR 2022oral

Multi-view clustering can explore common semantics from multiple views and has attracted increasing attention. However, existing works punish multiple objectives in the same feature space, where they ignore the conflict between learning consistent common semantics and reconstructing inconsistent vie…

Cited by 308PDFcodeScholar
2022

Multi-view Subspace Clustering on Topological Manifold

NeurIPS 2022accept

Multi-view subspace clustering aims to exploit a common affinity representation by means of self-expression. Plenty of works have been presented to boost the clustering performance, yet seldom considering the topological structure in data, which is crucial for clustering data on manifold. Orthogonal…

Cited by 31SourcePDFScholar
2021

Multi-VAE: Learning Disentangled View-Common and View-Peculiar Visual Representations for Multi-View Clustering

ICCV 2021poster

Multi-view clustering, a long-standing and important research problem, focuses on mining complementary information from diverse views. However, existing works often fuse multiple views' representations or handle clustering in a common feature space, which may result in their entanglement especially…

Cited by 160PDFcodeScholar
2020

Self-Paced Deep Regression Forests with Consideration on Underrepresented Examples

ECCV 2020poster

Deep discriminative models (e.g.deep regression forests, deep neural decision forests) have achieved remarkable success recently to solve problems such as facial age estimation and head pose estimation. Most existing methods pursue robust and unbiased solutions either through learning discriminative…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar