GAN-based clustering solution generation and fusion of diffusion

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a framework to generate diverse clustering solutions and conduct solution retrieval to improve performance. Specifically, we first project unlabelled data from multiple domains into a shared space while preserving the respective semantics. This space allows that representations of samples in a hard domain are recovered by a linear combination of those of others in the easy domains. Meanwhile, a clustering algorithm is adopted to provide pseudo labels for a conditional generative adversarial network to synthesize representations that in turn promote the learning of the above space. Second, we conduct the joint learning of feature projection and partition matrices on batches of representations, where the former ones are considered as clustering solutions and input into another generative adversarial network to generate more solutions. Third, we utilize the fusion of diffusion to effectively retrieve and extract the knowledge in multiple solutions to obtain the final clustering. We perform comparative experiments against other methods on multiple benchmark data sets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed method.