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multi-view clustering

Multi-view clustering is an unsupervised machine learning technique that groups unlabeled data into distinct clusters by jointly analyzing information from multiple distinct feature sets, modalities, or perspectives describing the same underlying objects. While traditional single-view clustering relies on a single representation of data, multi-view clustering exploits both the shared consensus across different views and the complementary information unique to each individual view. By integrating these diverse sources into a unified representation or aligning view-specific structures, this approach reduces noise, overcomes the limitations of individual feature representations, and produces more robust and accurate cluster assignments.

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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