Deep subspace clustering networks
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2017
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Ji, Pan
Zhang, Tong
Li, Hongdong
Salzmann, Mathieu
Reid, Ian
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Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation
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We present a novel deep neural network architecture for unsupervised subspace clustering. This architecture is built upon deep auto-encoders, which non-linearly map the input data into a latent space. Our key idea is to introduce a novel self-expressive layer between the encoder and the decoder to mimic the "self-expressiveness" property that has proven effective in traditional subspace clustering. Being differentiable, our new self-expressive layer provides a simple but effective way to learn pairwise affinities between all data points through a standard back-propagation procedure. Being nonlinear, our neural-network based method is able to cluster data points having complex (often nonlinear) structures. We further propose pre-training and fine-tuning strategies that let us effectively learn the parameters of our subspace clustering networks. Our experiments show that our method significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art unsupervised subspace clustering techniques.
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Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2017
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