{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/deep-clustering-by-gaussian-mixture","title":"Deep Clustering by Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoders With Graph Embedding","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2019-10-01","proceeding":"ICCV 2019 10","authors":["Linxiao Yang"," Ngai-Man Cheung"," Jiaying Li"," Jun Fang"],"abstract":"We propose DGG:  D eep clustering via a  G aussian-mixture variational autoencoder (VAE) with  G raph embedding. To facilitate clustering, we apply Gaussian mixture model (GMM) as the prior in VAE. To handle data with complex spread, we apply graph embedding. Our idea is that graph information which captures local data structures is an excellent complement to deep GMM. Combining them facilitates the network to learn powerful representations that follow global model and local structural constraints. Therefore, our method unifies model-based and similarity-based approaches for clustering. To combine graph embedding with probabilistic deep GMM, we propose a novel stochastic extension of graph embedding: we treat samples as nodes on a graph and minimize the weighted distance between their posterior distributions. We apply Jenson-Shannon divergence as the distance. We combine the divergence minimization with the log-likelihood maximization of the deep GMM. We derive formulations to obtain an unified objective that enables simultaneous deep representation learning and clustering. Our experimental results show that our proposed DGG outperforms recent deep Gaussian mixture methods (model-based) and deep spectral clustering (similarity-based). Our results highlight advantages of combining model-based and similarity-based clustering as proposed in this work. Our code is published here: https://github.com/dodoyang0929/DGG.git\r","url_abs":"http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/html/Yang_Deep_Clustering_by_Gaussian_Mixture_Variational_Autoencoders_With_Graph_Embedding_ICCV_2019_paper.html","url_pdf":"http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/papers/Yang_Deep_Clustering_by_Gaussian_Mixture_Variational_Autoencoders_With_Graph_Embedding_ICCV_2019_paper.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"deep-clustering-by-gaussian-mixture","repo_url":"https://github.com/dodoyang0929/DGG","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"clustering","task_name":"Clustering"},{"task_slug":"deep-clustering","task_name":"Deep Clustering"},{"task_slug":"graph-embedding","task_name":"Graph Embedding"},{"task_slug":"representation-learning","task_name":"Representation Learning"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"spectral-clustering","method_name":"Spectral Clustering"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}