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Semantic Clustering by Adopting Nearest Neighbours

SCAN-clustering

3 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Wouter Van Gansbeke et al. in SCAN: Learning to Classify Images without Labels

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

SCAN automatically groups images into semantically meaningful clusters when ground-truth annotations are absent. SCAN is a two-step approach where feature learning and clustering are decoupled. First, a self-supervised task is employed to obtain semantically meaningful features. Second, the obtained features are used as a prior in a learnable clustering approach.

Image source: Gansbeke et al.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

3 shown of 3, newest first. Repository counts are the archive's code-links table. A Syntology line states what Syntology ran from that paper's harvested code; it is per sample and not a correctness claim.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

15 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Representation Learning2
COVID-19 Diagnosis1
Classification1
Clustering1
Computed Tomography (CT)1
De-identification1
Decision Making1
General Classification1
Graph Representation Learning1
Image Classification1
Image Clustering1
Prognosis1
Semi-Supervised Image Classification1
Unsupervised Image Classification1
image-classification1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with SCAN-clustering: 2020 to 2021, peak 2 2 0 2020: 1 paper 2020 2021: 2 papers 2021
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (3 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

Clustering

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