The paper introduces Inverted Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Feature Selection (ICLFS), a method that treats each feature as a sample by inverting the data matrix and applies a contrastive learning framework to learn consistent representations across masked positive views and a shuffled negative view. Feature saliency is derived from the magnitude of projector‑space embeddings, and a Laplacian‑Gated Ranking Correction step refines the ranking by reducing local redundancy. Experiments on 12 benchmark datasets show that ICLFS achieves the best clustering accuracy on 10 datasets compared to both classical and neural baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness of feature‑wise contrastive consistency for unsupervised feature selection.
By Utsab Ghosh, Roshni Chakraborty
arXiv:2607. 10413v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prototype-based Incomplete Multi-view Clustering has recently attracted increasing attention by exploiting prototypes as semantic anchors for missing-view imputation.
By Yaoyuan Guo, Zhibin Gu, Songhe Feng, Yuhui Zheng, Bing Li
arXiv:2606. 27984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal feature fusion can effectively capture complex patterns in real-world data by integrating complementary information from different modalities.
By Liang Zhao, Shubin Ma, Bo Xu, Qingchen Zhang
arXiv:2609.25811v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-view clustering (MVC) aims to uncover latent cluster structures by exploiting complementary information from multiple views. Despite substantial...
By Mudi Jiang, Jiahui Zhou, Xinying Liu, Zengyou He, Zhikui Chen
arXiv:2607. 23149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Random Vector Functional Link (RVFL) networks provide an efficient randomized learning framework for classification.
By Yogesh Kumar, Mudasir Ganaie
Phase-Consistent Magnetic Spectral Learning for Multi-View Clustering proposes a new unsupervised method that uses a complex-valued magnetic affinity to capture both magnitude and phase information across multiple data views. By deriving a confidence-directed cross-view flow from anchor assignments and combining it with a nonnegative magnitude backbone, the approach constructs a Hermitian magnetic Laplacian that yields a stable shared spectral signal for representation learning and clustering. Experiments on ten public benchmarks show the method outperforms or matches leading MVC baselines on most dataset-metric combinations.
By Mingdong Lu, Zhikui Chen, Meng Liu, Shubin Ma, Zhengyang Tang
arXiv:2609.36648v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language pre-training has reshaped image clustering, giving rise to language-assisted image clustering (LaIC), which leverages textual semantics...
By Yuanwei Hu, Bo Peng, Yuheng Jia, Xinting Hu, Yadan Luo, Wenjie Zhu
Multi-query vehicle ReID aims to leverage complementary information from diverse views for robust feature learning. However, current methods suffer from simplistic feature fusion and thus easily ignores some important view information and cross-view relationships.
UVU is a vision-language unified autoregressive framework that integrates visual supervision directly into the pre-training stage of multimodal large language models. By using continuous visual encoding and a large-scale iterative hierarchical clustering algorithm to build a pixel-level visual codebook, UVU enables lossless representation of visual inputs and autoregressive generation of pixel-level image tokens alongside textual tokens. This approach synergizes pixel-level visual perception with semantic-level visual understanding, allowing models to internalize visual reconstruction capabilities and improve multimodal understanding performance.
By Zhehan Kan, Xinghua Jiang, Yubo Zhu, Yanlin Liu, Xiaochen Yang, Zhixiang Wei, Shifeng Liu, Qingmin Liao, Wenming Yang, Xin Li, Yinsong Liu, Deqiang Jiang, Xing Sun
arXiv:2504. 18455v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study distributed multiview representation learning, a problem in which $K$ clients each observe a distinct but possibly statistically correlated view.
By Milad Sefidgaran, Piotr Krasnowski, Abdellatif Zaidi
The paper introduces FedDCN, a federated deep clustering network that jointly optimizes reconstruction and clustering losses for high‑dimensional, heterogeneous data. It addresses challenges of non‑IID client data by generating synthetic augmentations and applying geometric regularization to align latent spaces. Experiments show the method’s effectiveness under both IID and non‑IID settings, and the authors outline future research directions.
By Morris Stallmann, Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, Marcin Pietrasik, Anna Wilbik
arXiv:2606. 02172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning discriminative visual representations from distributed, heterogeneous data is a fundamental challenge in Federated Learning (FL).
By Mario Casado-Diez, Alejandro Dopico-Castro, Ver\'onica Bol\'on-Canedo, Bertha Guijarro-Berdi\~nas