A3S: A General Active Clustering Method with Pairwise Constraints

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10196v1
• Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:37:03 GMT
• Title: A3S: A General Active Clustering Method with Pairwise Constraints
• Authors: Xun Deng, Junlong Liu, Han Zhong, Fuli Feng, Chen Shen, Xiangnan He, Jieping Ye, Zheng Wang,
• Abstract summary: A3S features strategic active clustering adjustment on the initial cluster result, which is obtained by an adaptive clustering algorithm. In extensive experiments across diverse real-world datasets, A3S achieves desired results with significantly fewer human queries.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Active clustering aims to boost the clustering performance by integrating human-annotated pairwise constraints through strategic querying. Conventional approaches with semi-supervised clustering schemes encounter high query costs when applied to large datasets with numerous classes. To address these limitations, we propose a novel Adaptive Active Aggregation and Splitting (A3S) framework, falling within the cluster-adjustment scheme in active clustering. A3S features strategic active clustering adjustment on the initial cluster result, which is obtained by an adaptive clustering algorithm. In particular, our cluster adjustment is inspired by the quantitative analysis of Normalized mutual information gain under the information theory framework and can provably improve the clustering quality. The proposed A3S framework significantly elevates the performance and scalability of active clustering. In extensive experiments across diverse real-world datasets, A3S achieves desired results with significantly fewer human queries compared with existing methods.

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