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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02087v1
• Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:46:22 GMT
• Title: An Introductory Survey to Autoencoder-based Deep Clustering -- Sandboxes for Combining Clustering with Deep Learning
• Authors: Collin Leiber, Lukas Miklautz, Claudia Plant, Christian Böhm,
• Abstract summary: This survey provides an introduction to fundamental autoencoder-based deep clustering algorithms.<n>The combination of deep learning with clustering, called Deep Clustering, enables to learn a representation tailored to specific clustering tasks.
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• Abstract: 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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