NEST: Nested Embedding Representation for Multiscale Clustering
Read the original on arXiv Machine Learning →NEST is an unsupervised framework that learns a single embedding encoding coarse‑to‑fine cluster structure, optimizing clustering and separation across nested prefix subspaces. The method uses rank and within‑cluster regularization to prevent collapse, and distances in the embedding align more closely with the true hierarchy than the input distances, even though the hierarchy is not provided during training. Experiments on synthetic, vision, text, and single‑cell data show that NEST can recover multiscale structure given only the number of clusters per level, demonstrating its ability to discover multiscale organization in real‑world representations.
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