Semi-supervised Clustering via Pairwise Constrained Optimal Graph

Semi-supervised Clustering via Pairwise Constrained Optimal Graph

Feiping Nie, Han Zhang, Rong Wang, Xuelong Li

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 3160-3166. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/437

In this paper, we present a technique of definitely addressing the pairwise constraints in the semi-supervised clustering. Our method contributes to formulating the cannot-link relations and propagating them over the affinity graph flexibly. The pairwise constrained instances are provably guaranteed to be in the same or different connected components of the graph. Combined with the Laplacian rank constraint, the proposed model learns a Pairwise Constrained structured Optimal Graph (PCOG), from which the specified c clusters supporting the known pairwise constraints are directly obtained. An efficient algorithm invoked by the label propagation is designed to solve the formulation. Additionally, we also provide a compact criterion to acquire the key pairwise constraints for prompting the semi-supervised graph clustering. Substantial experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the significant improvements by using a few prior pairwise constraints.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Semi-Supervised Learning
Machine Learning: Clustering