Multi-view graph-regularized deep metric subspace clustering network

Pengpeng Luo, Ming Yang, Chong Peng and Qianqian Wang

PLOS ONE, 2026, vol. 21, issue 7, 1-20

Abstract: Multi-view subspace clustering has progressed significantly by using deep neural networks to handle nonlinear data representations. A recent advancement, the Multi-view Self-Expressive Subspace Clustering (MSESC) network, achieves markedly higher computational efficiency by substituting the traditional self-expression layer with a deep metric learning approach. Nevertheless, MSESC still suffers from two notable limitations: it fails to adequately capture the high-order geometric structures inherent in multi-view data, and it lacks effective guidance from the underlying clustering distribution. To overcome these shortcomings, we propose a novel framework termed Multi-View Graph Regularized Deep Metric Subspace Clustering (MVGR-DMSC). The proposed method introduces two key components into MSESC to enhance the discriminability of representations. First, a dual-order graph regularization module is devised to maintain both first-order and second-order manifold structures, thereby allowing the model to capture more complex local geometric relationships. Second, an adaptive view-weighted deep clustering module is incorporated, which employs the Kullback–Leibler divergence to guide representation learning while dynamically adjusting the contributions of different views. Through evaluations on five benchmark datasets, we show that MVGR-DMSC consistently yields better results than several state-of-the-art approaches, including the direct baseline MSESC, in both accuracy and robustness.

Date: 2026
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