Robust Multi-view Learning via Half-quadratic Minimization

Robust Multi-view Learning via Half-quadratic Minimization

Yonghua Zhu, Xiaofeng Zhu, Wei Zheng

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 3278-3284. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/455

Although multi-view clustering is capable to usemore information than single view clustering, existing multi-view clustering methods still have issues to be addressed, such as initialization sensitivity, the specification of the number of clusters,and the influence of outliers. In this paper, we propose a robust multi-view clustering method to address these issues. Specifically, we first propose amulti-view based sum-of-square error estimation tomake the initialization easy and simple as well asuse a sum-of-norm regularization to automaticallylearn the number of clusters according to data distribution. We further employ robust estimators constructed by the half-quadratic theory to avoid theinfluence of outliers for conducting robust estimations of both sum-of-square error and the numberof clusters. Experimental results on both syntheticand real datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.  
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning
Machine Learning: Multi-instance;Multi-label;Multi-view learning
Machine Learning: Clustering