Exploring a Principled Framework for Deep Subspace Clustering

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Main Authors: Meng, Xianghan, Huang, Zhiyuan, He, Wei, Qi, Xianbiao, Xiao, Rong, Li, Chun-Guang
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author Meng, Xianghan
Huang, Zhiyuan
He, Wei
Qi, Xianbiao
Xiao, Rong
Li, Chun-Guang
author_facet Meng, Xianghan
Huang, Zhiyuan
He, Wei
Qi, Xianbiao
Xiao, Rong
Li, Chun-Guang
contents Subspace clustering is a classical unsupervised learning task, built on a basic assumption that high-dimensional data can be approximated by a union of subspaces (UoS). Nevertheless, the real-world data are often deviating from the UoS assumption. To address this challenge, state-of-the-art deep subspace clustering algorithms attempt to jointly learn UoS representations and self-expressive coefficients. However, the general framework of the existing algorithms suffers from a catastrophic feature collapse and lacks a theoretical guarantee to learn desired UoS representation. In this paper, we present a Principled fRamewOrk for Deep Subspace Clustering (PRO-DSC), which is designed to learn structured representations and self-expressive coefficients in a unified manner. Specifically, in PRO-DSC, we incorporate an effective regularization on the learned representations into the self-expressive model, prove that the regularized self-expressive model is able to prevent feature space collapse, and demonstrate that the learned optimal representations under certain condition lie on a union of orthogonal subspaces. Moreover, we provide a scalable and efficient approach to implement our PRO-DSC and conduct extensive experiments to verify our theoretical findings and demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed deep subspace clustering approach. The code is available at https://github.com/mengxianghan123/PRO-DSC.
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spellingShingle Exploring a Principled Framework for Deep Subspace Clustering
Meng, Xianghan
Huang, Zhiyuan
He, Wei
Qi, Xianbiao
Xiao, Rong
Li, Chun-Guang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Subspace clustering is a classical unsupervised learning task, built on a basic assumption that high-dimensional data can be approximated by a union of subspaces (UoS). Nevertheless, the real-world data are often deviating from the UoS assumption. To address this challenge, state-of-the-art deep subspace clustering algorithms attempt to jointly learn UoS representations and self-expressive coefficients. However, the general framework of the existing algorithms suffers from a catastrophic feature collapse and lacks a theoretical guarantee to learn desired UoS representation. In this paper, we present a Principled fRamewOrk for Deep Subspace Clustering (PRO-DSC), which is designed to learn structured representations and self-expressive coefficients in a unified manner. Specifically, in PRO-DSC, we incorporate an effective regularization on the learned representations into the self-expressive model, prove that the regularized self-expressive model is able to prevent feature space collapse, and demonstrate that the learned optimal representations under certain condition lie on a union of orthogonal subspaces. Moreover, we provide a scalable and efficient approach to implement our PRO-DSC and conduct extensive experiments to verify our theoretical findings and demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed deep subspace clustering approach. The code is available at https://github.com/mengxianghan123/PRO-DSC.
title Exploring a Principled Framework for Deep Subspace Clustering
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17288