arXiv Machine Learning

External Clustering Validation by the Homogeneity-Parsimony Trade-off

arXiv:2607. 20799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalar metrics are often used to evaluate clusterings against known classes, but they can obscure a fundamental trade-off: clusterings should be informative about class labels while avoiding unnecessary fragmentation.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Cluster LOCO: Feature Importance For Interpreting Clusters

arXiv:2606. 14592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clustering is widely used for exploratory analysis and scientific discovery, driving insights from market segmentation to biological data analysis, but its outputs can be difficult to interpret, audit, and reproduce as modern datasets become increasingly large and complex.

By Claire M. He, Genevera I. Allen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 9

Converge to Surprise: Evolutionary Self-supervised Image Clustering

arXiv:2607. 06887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most self-supervised image clustering models, actually almost all deep learning approaches, are based on gradient descent: In order to calculate the loss, every optimization step requires a clearly defined target, whether a contrastive split, a masked patch or entity, an EMA-teacher output, a pseudo-label, or a differentiable information-theoretic functional.

By Canlin Zhang, Xiuwen Liu