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Multi-view ensemble clustering algorithm based on view-wise mutual information weighting
Jinghuan LAO, Dong HUANG, Changdong WANG, Jianhuang LAI
Journal of Computer Applications    2023, 43 (6): 1713-1718.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2022060925
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Many of the existing multi-view clustering algorithms lack the ability to estimate the reliability of different views and thus weight the views accordingly, and some multi-view clustering algorithms with view-weighting ability generally rely on the iterative optimization of specific objective function, whose real-world applications may be significantly influenced by the practicality of the objective function and the rationality of tuning some sensitive hyperparameters. To address these problems, a Multi-view Ensemble Clustering algorithm based on View-wise Mutual Information Weighting (MEC-VMIW) was proposed, whose overall process consists of two phases: the view-wise mutual weighting phase and the multi-view ensemble clustering phase. In the view-wise mutual weighting phase, multiple random down-samplings were performed to the dataset, so as to reduce the problem size in the evaluating and weighting process. After that, a set of down-sampled clusterings of multiple views was constructed. And, based on multiple runs of mutual evaluation among the clustering results of different views, the view-wise reliability was estimated and used for view weighting. In the multi-view ensemble clustering phase, the ensemble of base clusterings was constructed for each view, and multiple base clustering sets were weighted to model a bipartite graph structure. By performing efficient bipartite graph partitioning, the final multi-view clustering results were obtained. Experiments on several multi-view datasets confirm the robust clustering performance of the proposed multi-view ensemble clustering algorithm.

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