Generalized Deep Multi-view Clustering via Causal Learning with Partially Aligned Cross-view Correspondence
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| author | Yang, Xihong Wang, Siwei Jin, Jiaqi Wang, Fangdi Liu, Tianrui Jin, Yueming Liu, Xinwang Zhu, En He, Kunlun |
| author_facet | Yang, Xihong Wang, Siwei Jin, Jiaqi Wang, Fangdi Liu, Tianrui Jin, Yueming Liu, Xinwang Zhu, En He, Kunlun |
| contents | Multi-view clustering (MVC) aims to explore the common clustering structure across multiple views. Many existing MVC methods heavily rely on the assumption of view consistency, where alignments for corresponding samples across different views are ordered in advance. However, real-world scenarios often present a challenge as only partial data is consistently aligned across different views, restricting the overall clustering performance. In this work, we consider the model performance decreasing phenomenon caused by data order shift (i.e., from fully to partially aligned) as a generalized multi-view clustering problem. To tackle this problem, we design a causal multi-view clustering network, termed CauMVC. We adopt a causal modeling approach to understand multi-view clustering procedure. To be specific, we formulate the partially aligned data as an intervention and multi-view clustering with partially aligned data as an post-intervention inference. However, obtaining invariant features directly can be challenging. Thus, we design a Variational Auto-Encoder for causal learning by incorporating an encoder from existing information to estimate the invariant features. Moreover, a decoder is designed to perform the post-intervention inference. Lastly, we design a contrastive regularizer to capture sample correlations. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first work to deal generalized multi-view clustering via causal learning. Empirical experiments on both fully and partially aligned data illustrate the strong generalization and effectiveness of CauMVC. |
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| spellingShingle | Generalized Deep Multi-view Clustering via Causal Learning with Partially Aligned Cross-view Correspondence Yang, Xihong Wang, Siwei Jin, Jiaqi Wang, Fangdi Liu, Tianrui Jin, Yueming Liu, Xinwang Zhu, En He, Kunlun Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Multi-view clustering (MVC) aims to explore the common clustering structure across multiple views. Many existing MVC methods heavily rely on the assumption of view consistency, where alignments for corresponding samples across different views are ordered in advance. However, real-world scenarios often present a challenge as only partial data is consistently aligned across different views, restricting the overall clustering performance. In this work, we consider the model performance decreasing phenomenon caused by data order shift (i.e., from fully to partially aligned) as a generalized multi-view clustering problem. To tackle this problem, we design a causal multi-view clustering network, termed CauMVC. We adopt a causal modeling approach to understand multi-view clustering procedure. To be specific, we formulate the partially aligned data as an intervention and multi-view clustering with partially aligned data as an post-intervention inference. However, obtaining invariant features directly can be challenging. Thus, we design a Variational Auto-Encoder for causal learning by incorporating an encoder from existing information to estimate the invariant features. Moreover, a decoder is designed to perform the post-intervention inference. Lastly, we design a contrastive regularizer to capture sample correlations. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first work to deal generalized multi-view clustering via causal learning. Empirical experiments on both fully and partially aligned data illustrate the strong generalization and effectiveness of CauMVC. |
| title | Generalized Deep Multi-view Clustering via Causal Learning with Partially Aligned Cross-view Correspondence |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16022 |