Multi-view Clustering via Multi-granularity Ensemble
Multi-view Clustering via Multi-granularity Ensemble
Jie Yang, Wei Chen, Feng Liu, Peng Zhou, Zhongli Wang, Xinyan Liang, Bingbing Jiang
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 6794-6802.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/756
Multi-view clustering aims to integrate complementary information from multiple views to improve clustering performance. However, existing ensemble-based methods suffer from information loss due to their reliance on single-granularity labels, limiting the discriminative capability of learned representations. Meanwhile, representation and graph fusion-based approaches face challenges such as explicit view alignment and manual weight tuning, making them less effective for heterogeneous views with varying data distributions. To address these limitations, we propose a novel multi-view clustering framework via Multi-granularity Ensemble (MGE), fully using the multi-granularity information across diverse views for accurate and consistent clustering. Specifically, MGE first modifies the hierarchical clustering and then leverages it on each view (including the fused view) to achieve multi-granularity labels. Moreover, the cross-view and cross-granularity fusion strategy is designed to learn a robust co-association similarity matrix, which effectively preserves the fine-grained and coarse-grained structures of multi-view data and facilitates subsequent clustering. Therefore, MGE can provide a comprehensive representation of local and global patterns within data, eliminating the requirement for view alignment and weight tuning. Experiments demonstrate that MGE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods across multiple datasets, validating its effectiveness and superiority in handling heterogeneous views.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: ML: Multi-view learning
Machine Learning: ML: Clustering
Machine Learning: ML: Multi-modal learning
Machine Learning: ML: Unsupervised learning
