Summary of A3s: a General Active Clustering Method with Pairwise Constraints, by Xun Deng et al.
A3S: A General Active Clustering Method with Pairwise Constraints
by Xun Deng, Junlong Liu, Han Zhong, Fuli Feng, Chen Shen, Xiangnan He, Jieping Ye, Zheng Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel Adaptive Active Aggregation and Splitting (A3S) framework for active clustering, which integrates human-annotated pairwise constraints through strategic querying. The conventional approaches to semi-supervised clustering schemes face high query costs when applied to large datasets with numerous classes. A3S features an adaptive clustering algorithm that adjusts the initial cluster result based on the quantitative analysis of Normalized mutual information gain under the information theory framework, which can provably improve the clustering quality. The proposed A3S framework significantly elevates the performance and scalability of active clustering, achieving desired results with significantly fewer human queries compared to existing methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us group things together better by using people’s ideas about how similar or different things are. We usually have to ask people lots of questions to get this right, but that can be slow and hard. The new way they’re proposing is faster and better because it uses special math to figure out the best way to group things. It works really well on big datasets with many groups. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Clustering * Semi supervised
