Dependence-Guided Multi-View Clustering

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel approach called dependence-guided multi-view clustering (DGMC). Our model enhances the dependence between unified embedding learning and clustering, as well as promotes the dependence between unified embedding and embedding of each view. Specifically, DGMC learns a unified embedding and partitions data in a joint fashion, thus the clustering results can be directly obtained. A kernel dependence measure is employed to learn a unified embedding by forcing it to be close to different views, thus the complex dependence among different views can be captured. Moreover, an implicit-weight learning mechanism is provided to ensure the diversity of different views. An efficient algorithm with rigorous convergence analysis is derived to solve the proposed model. Experimental results demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method over the state of the arts on real-world datasets.