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consensus representations

A consensus representation is a unified, shared data representation learned by integrating information across multiple distinct views, modalities, or feature sets of the same underlying data samples. In multi-view machine learning and clustering, it captures the consistent semantic structures and complementary features common to all viewpoints while filtering out view-specific noise, variance, and redundancy. By fusing cross-view information into a single harmonious latent space, consensus representations allow algorithms to perform downstream analytical tasks, such as unsupervised clustering or classification, more effectively than relying on isolated individual views.

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GCFAgg: Global and Cross-View Feature Aggregation for Multi-View Clustering

GCFAgg: Global and Cross-View Feature Aggregation for Multi-View Clustering

Weiqing Yan, Yuanyang Zhang, Chenlei Lv, Chang Tang, Guanghui Yue, Liang Liao, Weisi Lin

OrganizationsChina University of GeosciencesNanyang Technological UniversityShenzhen UniversityYantai University

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Proposes a global and cross-view feature aggregation framework that integrates transformer-based sample relationships with structure-guided contrastive learning to boost multi-view clustering performance on both complete and incomplete datasets.

Multi-view clustering can partition data samples into their categories by learning a consensus representation in unsupervised way and has received more and more attention in recent years. However, most existing deep clustering methods learn consensus representation or view-specific representations from multiple views via view-wise aggregation way, where they ignore structure relationship of all samples. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-view clustering network to address these problems, called Global and Cross-view Feature Aggregation for Multi-View Clustering (GCFAggMVC). Specifically, the consensus data presentation from multiple views is obtained via cross-sample and cross-view feature aggregation, which fully explores the complementary of similar samples. Moreover, we align the consensus representation and the view-specific representation by the structure-guided contrastive learning module, which makes the view-specific representations from different samples with high structure relationship similar. The proposed module is a flexible multi-view data representation module, which can be also embedded to the incomplete multi-view data clustering task via plugging our module into other frameworks. Extensive experiments show that the proposed method achieves excellent performance in both complete multi-view data clustering tasks and incomplete multi-view data clustering tasks.

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2026-09-26