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Unsupervised Deep Embedding for Clustering Analysis

19 Nov 2015arXiv:1511.06335archive 2025-07-28

Junyuan Xie, Ross Girshick, Ali Farhadi

Clustering is central to many data-driven application domains and has been studied extensively in terms of distance functions and grouping algorithms. Relatively little work has focused on learning representations for clustering. In this paper, we propose Deep Embedded Clustering (DEC), a method that simultaneously learns feature representations and cluster assignments using deep neural networks. DEC learns a mapping from the data space to a lower-dimensional feature space in which it iteratively optimizes a clustering objective. Our experimental evaluations on image and text corpora show significant improvement over state-of-the-art methods.

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ClusteringImage ClusteringUnsupervised Image Classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Clustering CIFAR-10 DEC ARI 0.161 #37 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering CIFAR-10 DEC Accuracy 0.301 #37 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering CIFAR-10 DEC Backbone Custom #37 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering CIFAR-10 DEC NMI 0.25 #37 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering CIFAR-10 DEC Train set Train+Test #37 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering CIFAR-100 DEC Accuracy 0.185 #26 of 30 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering CIFAR-100 DEC NMI 0.136 #26 of 30 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering CIFAR-100 DEC Train Set Train+Test #26 of 30 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering CMU-PIE DEC (KL based) Accuracy 0.801 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering CMU-PIE DEC (KL based) NMI 0.924 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering ImageNet-10 DEC Accuracy 0.381 #15 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering ImageNet-10 DEC NMI 0.282 #15 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering Imagenet-dog-15 DEC Accuracy 0.195 #17 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering Imagenet-dog-15 DEC NMI 0.122 #17 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering STL-10 DEC Accuracy 0.359 #26 of 29 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering STL-10 DEC NMI 0.276 #26 of 29 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering STL-10 DEC Train Split Train+Test #26 of 29 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering Tiny-ImageNet DEC Accuracy 0.037 #12 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering Tiny-ImageNet DEC NMI 0.115 #12 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering YouTube Faces DB DEC (KL based) Accuracy 0.371 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Clustering YouTube Faces DB DEC (KL based) NMI 0.446 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Unsupervised Image Classification SVHN DEC # of clusters (k) 10 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Unsupervised Image Classification SVHN DEC Acc 11.90 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report

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