Ensemble Clustering (EC) is an important topic for data cluster analysis. It targets to integrate multiple Basic Partitions (BPs) of a particular dataset into a consensus partition. Among previous works, one promising and effective way is to transform EC as a graph partitioning problem on the co-association matrix, which is a pair-wise similarity matrix summarized by all the BPs in essence. However, most existing EC methods directly utilize the co-association matrix, yet without considering various noises (e.g., the disagreement between different BPs and the outliers) that may exist in it. These noises can impair the cluster structure of a co-association matrix, and thus mislead the final graph partitioning process. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Robust Spectral Ensemble Clustering (RSEC) algorithm in this article. Specifically, we learn low-rank representation (LRR) for the co-association matrix to uncover its cluster structure and handle the noises, and meanwhile, we perform spectral clustering with the learned representation to seek for a consensus partition. These two steps are jointly proceeded within a unified optimization framework. In particular, during the optimizing process, we leverage consensus partition to iteratively enhance the block-diagonal structure of LRR, in order to assist the graph partitioning. To solve RSEC, we first formulate it by using nuclear norm as a convex proxy to the rank function. Then, motivated by the recent advances in non-convex rank minimization, we further develop a non-convex model for RSEC and provide it a solution by the majorization--minimization Augmented Lagrange Multiplier algorithm. Experiments on 18 real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm compared with state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, several impact factors on the clustering performance of our approach are also explored extensively.
Robust Spectral Ensemble Clustering via Rank Minimization
Zhiqiang Tao,Hongfu Liu,Sheng Li,Zhengming Ding,Y. Fu
Published 2019 in ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
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2019-01-09
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