Multiclass Total Variation Clustering

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26 (NIPS 2013)

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Authors

Xavier Bresson, Thomas Laurent, David Uminsky, James von Brecht

Abstract

Ideas from the image processing literature have recently motivated a new set of clustering algorithms that rely on the concept of total variation. While these algorithms perform well for bi-partitioning tasks, their recursive extensions yield unimpressive results for multiclass clustering tasks. This paper presents a general framework for multiclass total variation clustering that does not rely on recursion. The results greatly outperform previous total variation algorithms and compare well with state-of-the-art NMF approaches.