Weighted Density for The Win: Accurate Subspace Density Clustering

Maixuan Peng, Yuyang Wu, Yang Lu, Mengke Li, Yiqun Zhang*, Yiu-Ming Cheung

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

k-clustering typically struggles with the detection of irregular-distributed clusters due to the natural bias, while density clustering usually cannot well-adapt to different datasets and clustering tasks as it is not an oriented optimization process. This paper, therefore, proposes to perform density clustering in dynamically learned subspaces. To exploit the irregular-distributed clusters obtained by density clustering for the subspace determination, we design a new strategy to appropriately evaluate the importance of attributes. It turns out that the proposed Weighted Density-based Subspace Clustering (WDSC) algorithm inherits the unbiased merits of density clustering, and also upgrades the unlearning density clustering to be learnable under the subspace learning paradigm of k-clustering. A comprehensive evaluation including significance tests, ablation studies, qualitative comparisons, etc., shows the superiority of WDSC.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
EditorsBhaskar D Rao, Isabel Trancoso, Gaurav Sharma, Neelesh B. Mehta
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9798350368741
ISBN (Print)9798350368758
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Apr 2025
Event2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025 - Hyderabad, India
Duration: 6 Apr 202511 Apr 2025
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10887540/proceeding

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
PublisherIEEE

Conference

Conference2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityHyderabad
Period6/04/2511/04/25
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User-Defined Keywords

  • Subspace clustering
  • density-based clustering
  • attributes weighting
  • unsupervised learning

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