Quality-Aware Robust Multi-View Clustering for Heterogeneous Observation Noise

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22568v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:16:44 GMT
• Title: Quality-Aware Robust Multi-View Clustering for Heterogeneous Observation Noise
• Authors: Peihan Wu, Guanjie Cheng, Yufei Tong, Meng Xi, Shuiguang Deng,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel framework termed Quality-Aware Robust Multi-View Clustering (QARMVC)<n>QARMVC employs an information bottleneck mechanism to extract intrinsic semantics for view reconstruction.<n>In experiments on five benchmark datasets, QARMVC consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Deep multi-view clustering has achieved remarkable progress but remains vulnerable to complex noise in real-world applications. Existing noisy robust methods predominantly rely on a simplified binary assumption, treating data as either perfectly clean or completely corrupted. This overlooks the prevalent existence of heterogeneous observation noise, where contamination intensity varies continuously across data. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel framework termed Quality-Aware Robust Multi-View Clustering (QARMVC). Specifically, QARMVC employs an information bottleneck mechanism to extract intrinsic semantics for view reconstruction. Leveraging the insight that noise disrupts semantic integrity and impedes reconstruction, we utilize the resulting reconstruction discrepancy to precisely quantify fine-grained contamination intensity and derive instance-level quality scores. These scores are integrated into a hierarchical learning strategy: at the feature level, a quality-weighted contrastive objective is designed to adaptively suppress the propagation of noise; at the fusion level, a high-quality global consensus is constructed via quality-weighted aggregation, which is subsequently utilized to align and rectify local views via mutual information maximization. Extensive experiments on five benchmark datasets demonstrate that QARMVC consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, particularly in scenarios with heterogeneous noise intensities.

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