Pseudo-Label Guided Bidirectional Discriminative Deep Multi-View Subspace Clustering

Yongbo Yu, Zhoumin Lu, Feiping Nie, Weizhong Yu, Zongcheng Miao, Xuelong Li

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Abstract

In practical applications, multi-view subspace clustering is hindered by data noise that disrupts the ideal block-diagonal structure of self-representation matrices, thereby degrading performance. Moreover, many existing methods rely solely on sample features, overlooking the valuable structural information in affinity matrices (e.g., pairwise relationships). While conventional contrastive learning strategies often introduce false negative pairs due to noise and unreliable sample selection. To address these challenges, we propose a pseudo-label guided bidirectional discriminative deep multi-view subspace clustering method (PBDMSC). Our approach first employs pseudo-label guided contrastive learning, using previous cluster assignments to select reliable positive and negative samples, which mitigates incorrect pairings and enhances low-dimensional representations. Then, a discriminative self-representation learning method is introduced that leverages pseudo-labels to enforce homogeneous expression constraints and incorporates a bidirectional attention mechanism to preserve the structured information from affinity matrices, thereby enhancing robustness. Experimental results on six real-world datasets demonstrate that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art clustering performance.

Original languageEnglish
JournalIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2025

Keywords

  • auto-encoder
  • contrastive learning
  • multi-view clustering
  • pseudo-graph
  • self-expression

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