Cluster Complementarity and Consistency Mining for Multi-View Representation Learning

Yanyan Wen and Haifeng Li ()
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Yanyan Wen: School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Haifeng Li: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang 236037, China

Mathematics, 2025, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-15

Abstract: With the advent of the big data era, multi-view clustering (MVC) methods have attracted considerable acclaim due to their capability in handling the multifaceted nature of data, which achieves impressive results across various fields. However, two significant challenges persist in MVC methods: (1) They resort to learning view-invariant information of samples to bridge the heterogeneity gap between views, which may result in the loss of view-specific information that contributes to pattern mining. (2) They utilize fusion strategies that are susceptible to the discriminability of views, i.e., the concatenation and the weighing fusion of cross-view representations, to aggregate complementary and consistent information, which is difficult to guarantee semantic robustness of fusion representations. To this end, a simple yet effective cluster complementarity and consistency learning framework (CommonMVC) is proposed for mining patterns of multiview data. Specifically, a cluster complementarity learning is devised to endow fusion representations with discriminate information via nonlinearly aggregating view-specific information. Meanwhile, a cluster consistency learning is introduced via modeling instance-level and cluster-level partition invariance to coordinate the clustering partition of various views, which ensures the robustness of multi-view data pattern mining. Seamless collaboration between two components effectively enhances multi-view clustering performance. Finally, comprehensive experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrate CommonMVC establishes a new state-of-the-art baseline for the MVC task.

Keywords: multi-view clustering; complementarity and consistency; nonlinear fusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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