An Introductory Survey to Autoencoder-based Deep Clustering -- Sandboxes for Combining Clustering with Deep Learning

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Autores principales: Leiber, Collin, Miklautz, Lukas, Plant, Claudia, Böhm, Christian
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author Leiber, Collin
Miklautz, Lukas
Plant, Claudia
Böhm, Christian
author_facet Leiber, Collin
Miklautz, Lukas
Plant, Claudia
Böhm, Christian
contents Autoencoders offer a general way of learning low-dimensional, non-linear representations from data without labels. This is achieved without making any particular assumptions about the data type or other domain knowledge. The generality and domain agnosticism in combination with their simplicity make autoencoders a perfect sandbox for researching and developing novel (deep) clustering algorithms. Clustering methods group data based on similarity, a task that benefits from the lower-dimensional representation learned by an autoencoder, mitigating the curse of dimensionality. Specifically, the combination of deep learning with clustering, called Deep Clustering, enables to learn a representation tailored to specific clustering tasks, leading to high-quality results. This survey provides an introduction to fundamental autoencoder-based deep clustering algorithms that serve as building blocks for many modern approaches.
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spellingShingle An Introductory Survey to Autoencoder-based Deep Clustering -- Sandboxes for Combining Clustering with Deep Learning
Leiber, Collin
Miklautz, Lukas
Plant, Claudia
Böhm, Christian
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Autoencoders offer a general way of learning low-dimensional, non-linear representations from data without labels. This is achieved without making any particular assumptions about the data type or other domain knowledge. The generality and domain agnosticism in combination with their simplicity make autoencoders a perfect sandbox for researching and developing novel (deep) clustering algorithms. Clustering methods group data based on similarity, a task that benefits from the lower-dimensional representation learned by an autoencoder, mitigating the curse of dimensionality. Specifically, the combination of deep learning with clustering, called Deep Clustering, enables to learn a representation tailored to specific clustering tasks, leading to high-quality results. This survey provides an introduction to fundamental autoencoder-based deep clustering algorithms that serve as building blocks for many modern approaches.
title An Introductory Survey to Autoencoder-based Deep Clustering -- Sandboxes for Combining Clustering with Deep Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02087