text: Subspace clustering methods based on data self-expression have become very popular for learning from data that lie in a union of low-dimensional linear subspaces. However, the applicability of subspace clustering has been limited because practical visual data in raw form do not necessarily lie in such linear subspaces. On the other hand, while Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet) has been demonstrated to be a powerful tool for extracting discriminative features from visual data, training such a ConvNet usually requires a large amount of labeled data, which are unavailable in subspace clustering applications. To achieve simultaneous feature learning and subspace clustering, we propose an end-to-end trainable framework, called Self-Supervised Convolutional Subspace Clustering Network (S @math ConvSCN), that combines a ConvNet module (for feature learning), a self-expression module (for subspace clustering) and a spectral clustering module (for self-supervision) into a joint optimization framework. Particularly, we introduce a dual self-supervision that exploits the output of spectral clustering to supervise the training of the feature learning module (via a classification loss) and the self-expression module (via a spectral clustering loss). Our experiments on four benchmark datasets show the effectiveness of the dual self-supervision and demonstrate superior performance of our proposed approach.
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  @cite_8: Subspace clustering refers to the problem of segmenting high dimensional data drawn from a union of subspaces into the respective subspaces. In some applications, partial side-information to indicate “must-link” or “cannot-link” in clustering is available. This leads to the task of subspace clustering with side-information. However, in prior work the supervision value of the side-information for subspace clustering has not been fully exploited. To this end, in this paper, we present an enhanced approach for constrained subspace clustering with side-information, termed Constrained Sparse Subspace Clustering plus (CSSC+), in which the side-information is used not only in the stage of learning an affinity matrix but also in the stage of spectral clustering. Moreover, we propose to estimate clustering accuracy based on the partial side-information and theoretically justify the connection to the ground-truth clustering accuracy in terms of the Rand index. We conduct experiments on three cancer gene expression datasets to validate the effectiveness of our proposals.
  @cite_21: Low-Rank Representation (LRR) [16, 17] is an effective method for exploring the multiple subspace structures of data. Usually, the observed data matrix itself is chosen as the dictionary, which is a key aspect of LRR. However, such a strategy may depress the performance, especially when the observations are insufficient and or grossly corrupted. In this paper we therefore propose to construct the dictionary by using both observed and unobserved, hidden data. We show that the effects of the hidden data can be approximately recovered by solving a nuclear norm minimization problem, which is convex and can be solved efficiently. The formulation of the proposed method, called Latent Low-Rank Representation (LatLRR), seamlessly integrates subspace segmentation and feature extraction into a unified framework, and thus provides us with a solution for both subspace segmentation and feature extraction. As a subspace segmentation algorithm, LatLRR is an enhanced version of LRR and outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms. Being an unsupervised feature extraction algorithm, LatLRR is able to robustly extract salient features from corrupted data, and thus can work much better than the benchmark that utilizes the original data vectors as features for classification. Compared to dimension reduction based methods, LatLRR is more robust to noise.
  @cite_52: Subspace clustering refers to the problem of grouping data points that lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. One successful approach for solving this problem is sparse subspace clustering, which is based on a sparse representation of the data. In this paper, we extend SSC to non-linear manifolds by using the kernel trick. We show that the alternating direction method of multipliers can be used to efficiently find kernel sparse representations. Various experiments on synthetic as well real datasets show that non-linear mappings lead to sparse representation that give better clustering results than state-of-the-art methods.
  @cite_32: Subspace clustering aims to cluster unlabeled samples into multiple groups by implicitly seeking a subspace to fit each group. Most of existing methods are based on a shallow linear model, which may fail in handling data with nonlinear structure. In this paper, we propose a novel subspace clustering method -- deeP subspAce clusteRing with sparsiTY prior (PARTY) -- based on a new deep learning architecture. PARTY explicitly learns to progressively transform input data into nonlinear latent space and to be adaptive to the local and global subspace structure simultaneously. In particular, considering local structure, PARTY learns representation for the input data with minimal reconstruction error. Moreover, PARTY incorporates a prior sparsity information into the hidden representation learning to preserve the sparse reconstruction relation over the whole data set. To the best of our knowledge, PARTY is the first deep learning based subspace clustering method. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of our method.
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  @cite_17: We propose a novel algorithm called Latent Space Sparse Subspace Clustering for simultaneous dimensionality reduction and clustering of data lying in a union of subspaces. Specifically, we describe a method that learns the projection of data and finds the sparse coefficients in the low-dimensional latent space. Cluster labels are then assigned by applying spectral clustering to a similarity matrix built from these sparse coefficients. An efficient optimization method is proposed and its non-linear extensions based on the kernel methods are presented. One of the main advantages of our method is that it is computationally efficient as the sparse coefficients are found in the low-dimensional latent space. Various experiments show that the proposed method performs better than the competitive state-of-the-art subspace clustering methods.
summary: For subspace clustering in feature space, we further divide the existing methods into two types. The first type uses , which is induced via a Mercer kernel, , @cite_52 @cite_22 @cite_20 @cite_49 , or constructed via matrix decomposition, , @cite_21 , @cite_17 . The second type use , which is designed by manual feature extraction, , @cite_32 , or is learned from data, , @cite_8 @cite_18 .